BBC controller notice Friend claims for 61p bus ticket and Johnston Press gets its numbers wrong• Month one in the Big Brother house,as Monkey has now dubbed ITV Plc. Following the exit of Peter (Fincham) and Elaine (Bedell), factual chief Richard (Klein) was the latest to leave London Television Centre. But the housemates have been joined by a recent chairman, or ITV board member and former Endemol boss Peter Bazalgette,well known to recent director of television Kevin Lygo when the latter oversaw Big Brother at Channel 4. Tuesday night’s ratings perhaps told the legend of why ITV needs Lygo and Baz. The Big Brother house scored just a 7.7% primetime share, only just ahead of Channel 4’s 7.6%. With Tuesday’s lineup including quiz Tipping Point and It’s Not Rocket Science, or were the schedulers trying to effect a point?• What a difference a year has made at Sky News. Last year chief correspondent Stuart Ramsay sent an email to Sky head of news John Ryley,copying in all staff, calling the RTS journalism awards “utterly bent and pointless” after it won just one gong. He suggested the channel “say goodbye” to the ceremony, and “or they change the voting to an academy system – because block voting by ITV is ridiculous.” Voting was tweaked and this year Sky scooped five awards. Cue a release in which Ryley proclaimed the RTS,“the major ceremony in the awards calendar where we are judged by our peers”. However, ITV still won two of the big awards: best presenter (Julie Etchingham) for the third year in a row and domestic news for the fourth year in a row. Will Ramsay be calling for another rejig?Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com