JANUARY 1998
According to a industry pundits yesterday, digital television is entirely incomprehensible says The Dandy. A strategy paper prepared by Chrysalis has concluded 'No-one has the slightest idea what digital television is, or even whether it is even possible, never mind what the point of it is or whether there's any money in it.' A spokesman for BDB has gone on record saying, 'Oh there's, money in it. Don't fucking worry about that.'
A complaint about violence in an episode of Coronation Street has been upheld by the Broadcasting Standards Commission, reports The Times. The scene, in which Don Brennan was tortured, raped and butchered by Mike Baldwin, was 'inappropriate' for a programme at 7.30pm. Channel 5 was also reprimanded for showing the film Shavey Shavey Licky Licky.
Television advertising really does work, according to the most detailed study yet into the links between commercials and shopping habits, reports The Adman. The award-winning, bubble permed, enfant-regrettable, commercial director, Trevor Beattie, said 'Of course ads, like, work, otherwise why is it the there are people who wouldn't watch them, er, watching them? Wow, this is great gear.'
Vacancies for the governors at the BBC are to be advertised in March for the first time. Culture Secretary Chris Smith hopes 'more chicks, cool people and er, people of color will become unpaid governors. The previous system, a mixture of nepotism and sexual favours has been abandoned due to the cold, solitary and essentially, asexual nature of John Birt.
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