Richard Desmond buys Channel Five

"Richard Desmond has clinched a deal to buy Channel Five for £103m, and has
promised to spend more money in the television industry as he works to
become a major player in the market."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/jul/23/richard-desmond-channel-five1

On Friday, July 23rd, 2010 at 21:55:58h +0100, Ivan wrote:

"Richard Desmond has clinched a deal to buy Channel Five for £103m, and
has promised to spend more money in the television industry as he works
to become a major player in the market."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/jul/23/richard-desmond-channel-five1

QUOTE

Desmond's critics say he has failed to invest in the papers, cutting costs
and axing or outsourcing jobs while taking tens of millions of pounds out
of the business.

UNQUOTE

So should one expect a similar policy at `five'?

On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 21:55:58 +0100, "Ivan"
wrote:

"Richard Desmond has clinched a deal to buy Channel Five for £103m, and has
promised to spend more money in the television industry as he works to
become a major player in the market."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/jul/23/richard-desmond-channel-five1

Great! Another f***ing multimedia plutocrat. When are we going to get
a political party with the ******** to say that you can't own papers
*and* TV stations?

J G Miller wrote:
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Desmond's critics say he has failed to invest in the papers, cutting costs
and axing or outsourcing jobs while taking tens of millions of pounds out
of the business.

UNQUOTE

So should one expect a similar policy at `five'?

It'll be interesting to see what (if anything) he does about C5's ties with
BSkyB, namely the provision of news, and the D-Sat uplinking/encryption.

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Mark
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"Mark Carver" wrote in message
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J G Miller wrote:
QUOTE

Desmond's critics say he has failed to invest in the papers, cutting
costs
and axing or outsourcing jobs while taking tens of millions of pounds
out
of the business.

UNQUOTE

So should one expect a similar policy at `five'?

It'll be interesting to see what (if anything) he does about C5's ties
with BSkyB, namely the provision of news, and the D-Sat
uplinking/encryption.


A bit OT Mark, but now that Rupert and Richard have managed to resolve their
differences, with Virgin agreeing to sell Virgin Media Television to Sky, I
wonder if there will be any future broadcasting surprises there?
I also see that 'Film Four HD' has now made an 'exclusive' appearance on the
Virgin cable HD package, IMV a great pity, as I think that it would have
done wonders for the adoption of Freeview HD if it had been launched on
their HD package, instead of the duplicated Channel Four HD.

"Brian Gaff" wrote in message
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Duno about 'people are a lot more savvy than they used to be', if so why is
it that even our mainstream broadcasters are increasingly falling over one
another in their attempts to appeal to the lowest dumbed down Chav
mentality?. if it's about ratings, then they must genuinely believe that
those kind of people constitute a very large proportion of their target
audience, maybe the old saying, 'you'll never go broke underestimating the
intelligence of the public', still holds true.



People are a lot more savvy than they used to be I think and know when
they are being conned. However, there is little they can do but boycot the
output be it paper or electronic.

"Ivan" wrote in message
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"Brian Gaff" wrote in message
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Duno about 'people are a lot more savvy than they used to be', if so why
is it that even our mainstream broadcasters are increasingly falling over
one another in their attempts to appeal to the lowest dumbed down Chav
mentality?. if it's about ratings, then they must genuinely believe that
those kind of people constitute a very large proportion of their target
audience, maybe the old saying, 'you'll never go broke underestimating the
intelligence of the public', still holds true.

snip

It generally seems to pass people by that around 50% of the population is
below average intelligence.

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Helmuth von Moltke the Elder

"David WE Roberts" wrote in message
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"Ivan" wrote in message
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"Brian Gaff" wrote in message
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Duno about 'people are a lot more savvy than they used to be', if so why
is it that even our mainstream broadcasters are increasingly falling over
one another in their attempts to appeal to the lowest dumbed down Chav
mentality?. if it's about ratings, then they must genuinely believe that
those kind of people constitute a very large proportion of their target
audience, maybe the old saying, 'you'll never go broke underestimating
the intelligence of the public', still holds true.

snip

It generally seems to pass people by that around 50% of the population is
below average intelligence.


Fifty years ago those kind of people appearing on television, as game show
contestants, would have been ritually humiliated and ridiculed in front of
their peers, by the likes of 'Hughie' or 'Brucie', purely meant as
'inoffensive fun' you understand.
Nowadays of course that things are very different, i.e. obese peroxide
blonde, complete with body piercing and tattoo, cue photograph of dull
looking children with Wayne Rooney look-alike, 'so this is your two lovely
kids, Carpenter and Chantal, with your current partner Darren, ooh aren't
they lovely'... or am I being too much of a cynical old git?

David WE Roberts wrote:

It generally seems to pass people by that around 50% of the population
is below average intelligence.


I can't see this because there's no reason why IQ should form a regular
symetrical curve.

Bill

On 23/07/2010 21:55, Ivan wrote:
"Richard Desmond has clinched a deal to buy Channel Five for £103m, and
has promised to spend more money in the television industry as he works
to become a major player in the market."


Ah, knowing that twits connections, Channel 5 will become this ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L!VE_TV

"Tiffany's Big City Tips, in which model Tiffany Banister gave the
financial news while stripping to her underwear, and the News Bunny, a
person in a rabbit suit who stood behind a newsreader making gestures
and expressions for each item"

Proper class, that was ...


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Adrian C