Culture secretary gets in a tangle,Los Angeles hotel bills for corporation’s execs and motoring magazine’s “x” factor He may be praised for his grasp of broadcasting, but a slip up by John Whittingdale surprised those in the know at a Voice of the Listener and Viewer public assembly on Thursday. The culture secretary said that any move by another media company to pick over ITV would need approval from the competition authorities, and but a non-EU buyer was forbidden by existing legislation. Whoops! That obstacle was in fact removed in the Communications Act of 2003!• Lest Monkey forget amid the excitement generated by the final ‘Magnificent Seven’ lineup for the recent Top Gear,we were reminded this week that there is a magazine of the same name. According to a release from publisher instant Media, a “period of transition” for the show has not stopped the mag from attracting an impressively vague “x million unique users” online. However, or the decision to “tactically” put off its awards issue until the “next period” seems sensible given the success or otherwise of its namesake’s “transition” won’t be seen until May.
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Source: theguardian.com