It’s that time of year when you lift the phone and long for it to be someone telling you that they have been appointed by a spurious government department to offer loft installation at discounted rates.
Clover’s Week: Pack up your troubles in your old KIT bag
You would have thought that KIT digital would have kept a low profile for a few months. The controversial company announced it was about to emerge from bankruptcy and had a new brand that it planned to shout about during IBC.
Clover’s Week: The mad season
The financial reporting season is upon us, but as Julian Clover notes, the PSBs actually have a finger in more platforms than the pay-TV operators.
Clover’s Week: Let’s pause for a moment
If a report in the Wall Street Journal is correct, Apple is planning a Cloud-based DVR, anything to stop people talking about an Apple TV set.
Clover’s Week: The big switchoff
The problem with this technology stuff is that you just can’t rely on it to keep working. It’s not just the bits and bobs inside the device, but whether the business plan will keep it going.
Clover’s Week: Around with Arris
Julian Clover in Berlin with the artist formerly known as Motorola.
Clover’s Week: A date with the elephants
The opening day of what is now ANGA COM (Cologne June 4 – 6) is the traditional habitat of the elephants, the heavy hitters of the German media sector, who sit on the opening panel and lock tusks.
Clover’s Week: A new sporting chance
Broadcasters are going further in the promotion of their sports channels and the community is benefitting, writes Julian Clover.
Clover’s Week: Microsoft launches TV, again
The BBC is currently running a neat little promotion for the iPlayer, the premise of which is to tell civillians that they can watch their favourite BBC show on the iPlayer, on the television, writes Julian Clover.
Clover’s Week: Kicking off BT Sport
Julian Clover attends the launch of what was described as the biggest launch in UK sports TV for 20 years.