Telegraph targets Mail associate editor Stephen Brook, press correspondentMonday October 23, 2006
http://media.guardian.co.uk/presspublishing/story/0,,1929581,00.html

The Daily Telegraph has launched another poaching raid on the Daily Mail.
This time the paper is targeting Daily Mail associate editor Tony Gallagher and is attempting to woo him to boost its news operation.

Gallagher, a long-standing Daily Mail staffer who was a New York correspondent for the paper before becoming news editor, was this year placed in charge of DailyMail.co.uk.

It is understood that Gallagher has yet to decide whether to leave the Mail. If he moves, he will follow his friend Ian MacGregor, who left his post as deputy editor of the Evening Standard to become Daily Telegraph deputy editor earlier this year.

But Gallagher could still knock back the offer and stay at the Mail, just as Mail deputy editor Jon Steafel did last year after rebuffing the Telegraph's overtures.

There is speculation that if Gallagher moves to the Daily Telegraph, he would become home editor. That role is currently filled by Richard Preston, who was promoted to that position last September, but is understood to have been offered another senior role.

At the same time Michael Smith, a former executive news editor at the Evening Standard, was made Telegraph news editor.

MacGregor, Gallagher and Smith all worked on the Daily Mail newsdesk together.
Since Sir David and Sir Frederick Barclay bought the Telegraph group in June 2004 a string of executives from Associated Newspaper, which owns the Mail and the Evening Standard, have joined the Telegraph, starting with chief executive Murdoch MacLennan.
In January the Telegraph hired Liz Hunt to be its assistant editor (features). She had been assistant features editor on the Mail.

In November John Bryant arrived from the Mail to be editor in chief, prompting the resignation of the editor Martin Newland.

Columnist Simon Heffer is another prominent Daily Mail journalist to join the Telegraph.

My Comments : i dont think this is a problem, at the end of the day competition will always motivate organisations and if the Daily mail's staff are considering to move to Daily Telegraph then its obvious which newspaper is doing well. Maybe the Daily mail should give their staff more attention and more money lol. because theres obviously something that the daily telegraph have that they are lacking.

ITV and BBC in race to launch digital media players Mark Sweney

Wednesday October 11, 2006http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,,1896738,00.html

ITV is going head-to-head with the BBC in the race to launch their digital media players, both of which are due to appear early next year.

ITV has appointed US digital agency Schematic to design a next-generation video-on-demand ITV.com website as well as its own digital media player.

ITV and the BBC are now both aiming to launch their digital media players by the end of March next year. Channel 4 is planning to have its video-on-demand service, incorporating digital media player technology, up and running before the end of this year.

Schematic, which is based in Los Angeles, counts among its clients broadcasters including ABC, MTV, CNN and Turner.

The BBC and Ofcom yesterday extended the deadline for the BBC iPlayer's market impact and public value testing, amid industry criticism of the the original schedule.

The British Interactive Publishers Association, which represents media owners including News International, Emap, Trinity Mirror, IPC, Sky Interactive, the Guardian and Associated New Media, has criticised such a tight assessment deadline over the very first BBC products to go through the process.

"We should have been given more advance notice of the assessment process," said Angela Mills-Wade, the director of BIPA.

"We were notified of the submission timelines and given about a month to respond. The iPlayer has potentially huge ramifications for the commercial sector and therefore needs to be thoroughly impact tested. Equally important is the process itself as other impact assessments on BBC products and services will be benchmarked against the outcome of the current consultation."

The deadline date for submissions has been extended to November 7.
Originally, submissions to Ofcom and the BBC for their respective assessments were due at the end of this week with the results due to be published in mid-December.

However, more information about the iPlayer has been requested and so the timetable for the results' publication has been put back to January 19.

Following the completion of Ofcom's market impact assessment, there will be a further public consultation during February.

The adjusted timeline gives the public and commercial companies almost two months to submit their views. Overall a final outcome of the review, by Ofcom and the BBC, will be revealed at the end of March - almost three months later than originally scheduled.

ITV is aiming to launch its new web "portal" sometime in the first quarter next year.

The broadband-enabled, on-demand service will enable viewers to watch simulcasts of live ITV shows as well as operating a "catch-up" option to see missed programmes.

ITV also intends to offer exclusive web-only content and a wide range of archive material.

"Broadband is the next mass-market platform for delivery of both television to viewers and services to advertisers," said Jane Marshall, the commercial development director of ITV Consumer.

"With some of the UK's most popular content we are confident ITV has an incredibly strong consumer proposition online."

Summary/my views: Basically this article is just about how ITV and BBC are launching a digital media player and they both are competing with each other, and they had troubles with the testing so the date of the launch is now later on.

Globalisation : This refers to the economy and the worlds market.

Check piont 1: Cultural Homogenisation is a large angency forces its values and ideologies through promotion.

Check piont 2 : Cultural Imperialism damaging as US media dominates the values and ideologies forced upon us through media.

LoVe IsLaNd

'cost £12m' Mark SweneyFriday September 29, 2006

http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,,1883381,00.html

Love Island: lost out to Big Brother in the battle for 16- to 34-year olds

ITV's summer reality flop Love Island is estimated to have cost £12m to produce, twice as much as the show it was designed to torpedo, Big Brother.

Flights, hotels and fees associated with using an exotic location in the South Pacific, not to mention crew and entourage reported to be in the hundreds, contributed to the sky-high production cost of the series, according to industry insiders.

By contrast the relatively cheap London location of Big Brother, and crew and staff numbers thought to be around a more modest 60, meant that Channel 4's most recent series cost around £6m.
According to figures from media agency Initiative, the latest series of Big Brother attracted an average adult audience of 4.2 million across the series. ITV managed around 2.14 million adult viewers.

In terms of the most significant audience for both shows, 16- to 34-year-olds, Love Island averaged 736,000 viewers and a 16.6% viewing share.

In contrast, Big Brother averaged 1.96 million 16- to 34-year-old viewers and a 41% share.
However, one head of TV at a media buying agency came to the show's defence, saying that investment in Love Island was necessary to help bolster the programming schedule over the difficult summer period.

A second TV director added that the generally later start time of 10pm for the ITV show also skewed a direct comparison with Big Brother as the Channel 4 programme aired largely at 9pm.
The Big Brother franchise has become a major investment over the years for Channel 4 as it expands platforms and the technological sophistication behind each series.

The first series of the show is thought to have cost the broadcaster just £2m, according to a source.

Summary and my comments : This article just says that Love island has made twice as much as it was targetted to and even so they have reached its target audience more than big brother has. ( 16 to 34 yearl olds). i think that reality tv on a whole is doing really well, people nowadays want to see the truth (even though shows as these are still mediated) Love island not only provides a interesting story line it also has a amazing set based in a hot..tropical island which also attracts audiences.