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How-Do weekly Wrap - Friday 28 November 2008 - Tamsin O'Brien |
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Friday, 28 November 2008 |
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Welcome to the weekly Wrap from How-Do - media news for the North West.  The Wrap's guest editor this week is Tamsin O’Brien.
Interesting at the point of my leaving the BBC there is so much to discuss — not least who will provide local video news to the audiences (both young and old) of the North West...
Not the BBC it seems, as last week the BBC Trust rejected the proposal for more video news on demand from the local BBC news teams arguing that it was not value for money from the licence fee and the external market would be adversely affected. Not ITV either which is struggling to survive as a regional broadcaster let alone expand into more local news…
How-Do this week also reported that Ofcom’s Stewart Purvis thinks the Channel M model is the future and local newspapers need to follow suit and create more video content. Quite right the newspaper groups will say having argued long and hard that the BBC’s proposals would harm them. Yet they’ve been painfully slow to get their act together and offer the audience something of value in terms of news video on demand. As Channel M will tell you training journalists to provide decent local news needs real investment to get a watchable product — even on the internet. As we hit economic free fall that is going to be hard... I watch with interest.
I see that the Congestion Charge film has been pulled with allegations of bias. This is a bitter fight for votes —having watched the (exclusive?) video on How-Do website I am not sure what the fuss is about....
Loved the story about how much Max costs to do his thing at a business dinner... Max is a show man and knows his stuff —perhaps I am a bit too much of a journalist but for a rumoured ten grand you need a decent bit of gossip for your bucks.
Finally someone that could give Max a run for his money - Mr Phil Redmond. For ever aware of PR, Redmond is looking for true Scousers to play a part in the finale of the Capital of Culture. I hope he finds some good candidates. After all the mess it turned out to be rather good fun and I am very pleased for Liverpool. Not sure about the bill— but then, my former colleagues can look at that.
That’s all folks…
Tamsin O’Brien is the former head of regional programmes BBC North West, now retired (she says)
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