http://www.mediauk.com/ Radio news feed en-gb This compilation copyright 1994-2010 Media UK; individual stories with contributors Mon, 22 Mar 2010 11:30:07 +0000 Mon, 22 Mar 2010 11:30:07 +0000 http://www.mediauk.com/article/4733 Media UK wizardry admin@mediauk.com (Not At All Bad Ltd) 10 http://www.mediauk.com/radio/news/go/98957?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=rss_newsfeeds&utm_campaign=XML Mon, 22 Mar 2010 10:21:19 +0000 Indonesia has launched an association to promote the interests of radio journalists around the country. The launch of the Alliance of Indonesian Radio Journalists (ALWARR)I came during the first national broadcasting jamboree in Gorontalo on Sulawesi island. The four-day jamboree ended on Saturday. The President Director of Radio Republic Indonesia, Parni Hadi, said the association [...] http://www.mediauk.com/radio/news/go/98957 http://www.mediauk.com/radio/news/go/98954?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=rss_newsfeeds&utm_campaign=XML Mon, 22 Mar 2010 10:18:33 +0000 Taiwan’s Cabinet has approved a proposed amendment to the country’s Radio and Television Act that would allow for TV and broadcasting licences to be issued through public auctions, in addition to the current panel review process, Taiwan Today reports. The revision would also lengthen the period of validity for such licences to nine years from [...] http://www.mediauk.com/radio/news/go/98954 http://www.mediauk.com/radio/news/go/98950?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=rss_newsfeeds&utm_campaign=XML Mon, 22 Mar 2010 10:08:32 +0000 The career of Delia Derbyshire is the topic for an upcoming BBC Radio 4 documentary, hosted by broadcaster and Doctor Who fan Matthew Sweet.Sculptress of Sound – The Lost Works of Delia Derbyshire will air this Saturday as part of the Archive on 4 strand. http://www.mediauk.com/radio/news/go/98950 http://www.mediauk.com/radio/news/go/98927?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=rss_newsfeeds&utm_campaign=XML Mon, 22 Mar 2010 07:09:31 +0000 New 'post-recession' advertising campaign stars celebrities such as Caroline Quentin, Jamie Rednapp and Dannii MinogueMarks & Spencer is to drop its long-running "food porn" ads for its new spring campaign – which will not feature Myleene Klass. The post-recession marketing overhaul instead features a new roster of celebrities including Caroline Quentin, Jamie Rednapp and Dannii Minogue.The new multimillion-pound campaign, by RKCR, also stars Capital FM presenter Lisa Snowdon, Brazilian model Ana Beatriz Barros and singer VV Brown. Only Twiggy will be retained because, according to M&S executive director of marketing, Steven Sharp, she is "shorthand for fashion at M&S". M&S's food campaign will see the dropping of the famous "This is not just ..." strapline, which has accompanied the company's decadent "food porn" ads for the past five years, to be replaced with a new line "Just Because".The spring campaign for womenswear and lingerie launches today with press and billboard ads, with the TV campaign breaking on Wednesday.Klass will not appear in the new campaign, although the company said that she "continues to work on a number of other initiatives".The first food commercial breaks on Friday across cinema, TV and online focusing on Easter products. A total of 20 different themed food ads will run this year.Redknapp, who earlier this year signed up to front Thomas Cook's TV ads alongside wife Louise, has been signed to front ads for M&S clothing brands including Blue Harbour and Autograph. Minogue's partner, Kris Smith, will also appear in a one-off summer menswear campaign.Steve Sharp, executive director of marketing, said that M&S – which is significantly upping its marketing budget this year – felt that the time was right for a "spring clean" of its advertising now the UK appeared to be out of the recession."Six months ago we were still feeling where the recession was going," he added. "Then things started to get better in the runup to Christmas and come spring there was a new mood and it felt the time to move everything on."It was a big decision as the campaigns for food and fashion have been tremendously successful. We wanted to capture a sense of change. In some respects it is fair to say it is a post-recessionary spring clean."• To contact the MediaGuardian news desk email editor@mediaguardian.co.uk or phone 020 3353 3857. For all other inquiries please call the main Guardian switchboard on 020 3353 2000.• If you are writing a comment for publication, please mark clearly "for publication".AdvertisingCelebrityMark Sweneyguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds http://www.mediauk.com/radio/news/go/98927 http://www.mediauk.com/radio/news/go/98909?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=rss_newsfeeds&utm_campaign=XML Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:00:26 +0000 Channel 4 is at risk of being sidelined at this general election. The BBC, ITV and Sky are gearing up for their leadership debates, but Channel 4 doesn't have one. http://www.mediauk.com/radio/news/go/98909 http://www.mediauk.com/radio/news/go/98901?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=rss_newsfeeds&utm_campaign=XML Sun, 21 Mar 2010 20:03:19 +0000 Real Radio Wales have announced that Jagger and Woody will present the Real Breakfast Show from 6th April.The award winning duo from Greater Manchester have been best friends since childhood and an on-air duo for over 21 years. The move will see them leave after 9 years in Northampton. http://www.mediauk.com/radio/news/go/98901 http://www.mediauk.com/radio/news/go/98897?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=rss_newsfeeds&utm_campaign=XML Sun, 21 Mar 2010 11:26:56 +0000 Former BBC Radio Sheffield presenter Gareth Evans has submitted a claim for breach of contract after being let go by the station earlier this year.Gareth left after the station said a row with the local council over his wife's parking ticket breached the BBC's code of conduct. http://www.mediauk.com/radio/news/go/98897 http://www.mediauk.com/radio/news/go/98894?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=rss_newsfeeds&utm_campaign=XML Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:00:01 +0000 One of the joys of Sport Relief is watching pampered celebrities being taken out of their protective cocoon to perform challenges which strip away the make-up and leave them grimacing in pain. http://www.mediauk.com/radio/news/go/98894 http://www.mediauk.com/radio/news/go/98879?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=rss_newsfeeds&utm_campaign=XML Sat, 20 Mar 2010 17:33:25 +0000 Chinese media unleashed a torrent of criticism against Google today following reports it would leave the country, with state news agency Xinhua alleging the company was linked to US intelligence. The comments were the latest in a series of angry exchanges sparked by the row over the Internet giant’s complaints of cyber hacking and censorship [...] http://www.mediauk.com/radio/news/go/98879 http://www.mediauk.com/radio/news/go/98878?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=rss_newsfeeds&utm_campaign=XML Sat, 20 Mar 2010 17:21:28 +0000 The European Union plans to take action against Iran for its jamming of European satellite broadcasts, according to a draft statement by EU foreign ministers ahead of a meeting on Monday. The statement, obtained by Reuters, follows talks among EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton and the foreign ministers of Britain, Germany and France on [...] http://www.mediauk.com/radio/news/go/98878 http://www.mediauk.com/radio/news/go/98938?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=rss_newsfeeds&utm_campaign=XML Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:07:09 +0000 Given their wealth, McDonald's has an odd tradition of TV advertisements that seem to revel in their own ineptitude, stretching back to the faintly sinister clown Ronald McDonald and beyond. But their latest, for the new CBO sandwich, is based around the principle that the chicken, bacon and onion filling proves that three is the magic number, and consists of a bewildering barrage of things that come in threes singing along to the Schoolhouse Rock classic made famous by De La Soul, in a variety of jarring televisual styles, each clip bafflingly cheap and quarter-arsed.We get a live-action clip of the Three Musketeers – fair enough – but then we get an abysmal CGI representation of Three Blind Mice that looks like something from an early PS2 game; three cartoon playing cards playing croquet in the Captain Pugwash animation style; a 60s popette in a garish three-wheeler car; Three Little Pigs in the style of an early Walt Disney film; the Three Bears of Goldilocks fame presented in bizarre Bagpuss-esque stop-motion; Three Men In A Boat in grainy black-and-white (a reference to Jerome K Jerome's travelogue that is sure to resonate with the average McDonald's customer) and finally, three men on the moon, a stirring tribute to the 1969 moon landing which manages to forget that only two of them actually made it, y'know, on to the moon at all. And all in 30 seconds.It becomes less of a workout in pan-stylistic hackery, more a disturbing lysergic blitz of half-sensical images bound only by the vague bond of the number three. Harrowing, yes. Confusing, very. But it does not make you want a CBO – it just makes you wonder what the hell they're putting in it.AdvertisingTelevisionTelevision industryPete Cashmoreguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds http://www.mediauk.com/radio/news/go/98938 http://www.mediauk.com/radio/news/go/98937?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=rss_newsfeeds&utm_campaign=XML Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:05:50 +0000 This week, Charlie's been watching MTV demonise young Italian-Americans in Jersey ShoreScribbling about TV shows isn't an abysmal task by any standards, but it does have its downsides, namely those weeks where the programme you're reviewing is so profoundly dispiriting it leaves you praying for climate change to hurry up and frazzle us all. This is one of those weeks. The Guide insisted I watch Jersey Shore (Sun, 9pm, MTV). Swear to God, they're trying to drive me to suicide.On the face of it, Jersey Shore is a reality show in which some tanned, whooping idiots live in a beach house for a month: a splice of Big Brother and Ibiza Uncovered featuring a uniformly unlikable bunch of infuriating, loud, over-confident pillocks. So far, so standard. What's eye-opening is that the entire cast appears to be drawn from one minority group – namely Italian-Americans. I didn't know much about Italian-Americans before watching Jersey Shore. Now I feel as if I was born hating them; as if despising Italian-Americans is my moral duty.It's not my fault, really it's not. Blame the producers, who seem to have constructed Jersey Shore by following a step-by-step guide to besmirching an entire ethnic group. Step one: identify the stereotype (in this case, the notion that working-class Italian-Americans are shallow sex-crazed thugs). Step two: collect the clearest embodiments of said stereotype you can find (consequently all the men in Jersey Shore are dopey, muscled, hollering titty-chasers: the girls are bolshy, spray-tanned, micro-skirted man-eaters). Step three: let them refer to themselves by using a slang term broadly perceived as an ethnic slur (in this case, the word "guido", a pejorative nickname which roughly means "dim macho Italian-American lunk"). Step four: group them together in a house decorated with Italian flags and Scarface posters. Step five: give them booze, film them behaving like shallow sex-crazed thugs, calling each other "guido", etc. Step six: there is no step six. Job's done. Go home and count the proceeds.Unsurprisingly, Jersey Shore caused a bit of a stink when it was screened in the US. Various advertisers, including Domino's Pizza and Dell Computers, pulled their commercials following the debut episode. New York Post TV critic Linda Stasi (herself an Italian-American) accused the show of "furthering the popular TV notion that Italian-Americans are gel-haired, thuggish ignoramuses with fake tans, no manners, no diction, no taste, no education, no sexual discretion, no hairdressers (for sure), no real knowledge of Italian culture and no ambition beyond expanding steroid- and silicone-enhanced bodies into sizes best suited for floating over Macy's on Thanksgiving."In summary: Jersey Shore isn't very nice. A farmyard animal could produce this show, and probably did. In fact, the sole skill the makers have demonstrated is the small degree of cunning involved in selecting Italian-Americans in the first place. Run the step-by-step guide again with a different ethinc group and it's altogether more incendiary.But perhaps the whole ethnic slant, explosive though it is, is a red herring. The group Jersey Shore is truly adept at demonising – like countless dumb "party time" docusoaps before it – is the young. Some of the young audience will tune in; the vast majority will ignore it. On TV, you currently have more chance of spotting a pair of morbidly obese conjoined twins on a log flume than of seeing one articulate, intelligent teenager exploring any subject other than sex or tattoos in any depth whatsoever. Little wonder they're abandoning ship.TelevisionCharlie Brookerguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds http://www.mediauk.com/radio/news/go/98937 http://www.mediauk.com/radio/news/go/98846?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=rss_newsfeeds&utm_campaign=XML Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:19:56 +0000 Channel M Television are to move into GMG Radio's head offices in Salford Quays, joining their flagship Real, Smooth and Rock Radio stations.The four staff will move in to Laser House to oversee the schedule, manage the transmitter and Freeview multiplex business. http://www.mediauk.com/radio/news/go/98846 http://www.mediauk.com/radio/news/go/98835?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=rss_newsfeeds&utm_campaign=XML Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:30:28 +0000 BBC presenter Shaun Keaveny turned his show over to The Archers theme today after a bungle meant listeners to the Radio 4 rural soap heard three minutes of rock tunes last night. http://www.mediauk.com/radio/news/go/98835 http://www.mediauk.com/radio/news/go/98829?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=rss_newsfeeds&utm_campaign=XML Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:26:00 +0000 Radio 5 Live's move to the new BBC headquarters in Salford has reportedly been delayed three months. http://www.mediauk.com/radio/news/go/98829