TIME WARNER CABLE TO ADD BBC WORLD NEWS

As previously reported, Time Warner Cable seems determined to drop cable networks that don’t draw significant ratings when their annual contracts expire next week. But on Thursday it added a network that it presumably believes will draw ratings, the BBC World News channel. The channel, which became available to 15 million Comcast subscribers last year, […]

VIEWERS FOR BBC’S ARABIC BROADCASTS INCREASE 80 PERCENT

While state-controlled broadcasters have attempted to buttress the besieged Arab regimes caught up in uprisings across North Africa, the BBC’s Arabic-language broadcasts have increased their audiences 80 percent, according to a study by the International Audience Research Program (IARP) conducted in Egypt, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Lebanon and Morocco. The biggest increase was seen in […]

OLD BBC HAND TO BECOME SPOKESMAN FOR BRITISH P.M.

Prime Minister David Cameron has picked a veteran ITN and BBC newscaster to become his new spokesman, replacing Andy Coulson, who resigned last month, a victim of the scandal over hacked voicemails by reporters for the London tabloid News of the World while he was editing it. Craig Oliver’s political affiliation is unknown. At the […]