Episode 153 – BBC Four Goes Archive Only; Spotify Buys Locker Room; Time Out Revenues Fall

Ascannio / Shutterstock.com

Olly Mann is joined by planning director at Edelman, Karin Robinson, LBC presenter, author and broadcaster Iain Dale and media executive and director of broadcasting at City University London, Professor Lis Howell

This week: BBC Four winds down original commissioning so will an archive-only channel be more high-brow or low-brow than BBC Two?

Spotify joins the live audio conversation by buying Locker Room; Kay Burley deletes references to Sky News from her social media – does this foretell a move to GB News?

Plus: news organisations push for public service news channels to be more prominent on streaming platforms; BBC local radio stations gain county cricket commentaries and, as Time Out revenues fall 59% and the Guardian claims furlough cash, which funding models will work for a post-covid print industry?

A PPM / Rethink Audio Production, produced by Peter Price and Matt Hill.


Support us with a Voluntary Subscription

Please help us to maintain The Media Podcast with Olly Mann as the most popular independent voice of the UK media industries – Click here to dedicate an episode or sign up for a voluntary subscription.

Subscribe now for free

Subscribe now for free to automatically receive the next episode of The Media Podcast as soon as it drops. Follow these links or search for us in your podcast app of choice

Contact us

We’d love to hear from you! Send us a message or follow us on twitter @themediapodcast


Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out /  Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out /  Change )

Connecting to %s

Blog at WordPress.com.

%d bloggers like this: