Tag: coverage

Sony Wins The iPhone 7 Content War

Posted on September 7, 2016 by Ewan Spence

I’m not sure if Sony’s decision to reveal the new PlayStation hardware today and force a head-to-head with Apple’s reveal of the iPhone 7 family is a suicidal marketing move or a tactical masterstroke, but I’m leaning towards the latter. Although the iPhone is going to dominate the digital pages (and is likely to make the main evening news bulletins on television and radio around the world) there’s always going to be a hunger for the story that isn’t about Tim Cook showing off a new iPhone that looks and acts remarkably like last year’s iPhone. With the reveal of

Fox News fails to cover NBA Basketball player Jason Collins coming out

Posted on April 29, 2013 by Ewan Spence

Although, amazingly, in the future I hope that all news organisations will simply write “X is gay” in tiny print and move on because it will no longer be a special thing. Fox News, finally right, for the wrong reasons.

Will the networks choose to improve all of the UK, or the Olympic Village?

Posted on October 4, 2011October 4, 2011 by Ewan Spence

I wonder how much of the new Government money to “improve coverage for voice calls” around the country will be spent outside of the M25, and how much of the £150 million will go to the area around the Olympic venues to stop the embarrassment of no mobile coverage for the world’s media as they go on their IOC approved Busman’s Holiday?

Statistically, #Irene was only the tenth most popular hurricane

Posted on August 30, 2011 by Ewan Spence

Do hurricanes receive too much media coverage? …I don’t know. What’s easier to evaluate is how much coverage Hurricane Irene received in comparison with other hurricanes. By that standard, the coverage was quite proportionate to the amount of death and destruction that the storm caused. Sometimes I wish I could get Nate Silver interested in Eurovision stats…

Time to vote on my Eurovision 2010 Tweets

Posted on June 1, 2010April 18, 2023 by Ewan Spence

Following on from a similar poll last year, it’s time to look back at the tweet coverage I did of the Eurovision Song Contest, and to pick out the line most likely to appear on a T-Shirt. yes it’s time to ask “what was your favourite line of my Eurovision coverage?” [poll id="4”] Just for fun, you understand, but if your favourite isn’t here, you can always add it into the comments!

It’s Eurovision Week – in a junior sort of way

Posted on November 16, 2009November 16, 2009 by Ewan Spence

It’s time for the annual shot of methadone for addicts of the Eurovision Song Contest… yes it’s time for the Junior Eurovision Song Contest! Set roughly between the grown-ups version, Junior Eurovision (JESC) sees children between the ages of 12 and 15 representing their country by performing songs they have written themselves to an international audience. Knowing the UK readers of this blog, I’m sure it won’t be long before someone pops up and mentions Minipops, but I’ll point to Hollie Steel if we get into an argument… deal? All the trappings of Eurovision are here, there’s national pride