There were many happy media people at last Monday s IPA Effectiveness Awards, and not just Mediaedge:cia, who made history by becoming the first media agency to be crowned Effectiveness Agency of the Year and to win the Grand Prix without having to share it with a creative agency.
If you fantasise about giving BNP leader Nick Griffin a slapping after his appearance on BBC1 s Question Time, then go to Albion London s website and follow the links from there. More than 60,000 people have already delivered more than 11 million virtual slaps.
Top TV executive, Dorothy Byrne, will become the sixth President at Murray Edward’s College in September 2021, replacing Dame Barbara Stocking, who has been in the role since 2013.
Throughout her career, the Editor-at-Large at Channel 4 has been awarded several BAFTA, Royal Television Society and Emmy Awards, and has fought for women’s issues to be given equal broadcast time.
Upon her election, Vice President of Murray Edwards College, Dr Rachel Polonsky, said that Byrne “will be an innovative and inspirational President” and that “her distinguished career in the media [and] passion for widening participation in higher education.will be of great benefit to the College in the years to come.”
For the past 40 years, I’ve taken television rather seriously. Week by week, I went through my copy of the Radio Times with a pen, circling the programmes I wanted to watch, often scribbling notes.
However, these days I can scarcely be bothered, so woefully unimaginative are the offerings from the two principal broadcasters and, in particular, the BBC, which should know better.
I still think of television as an object of brightness and joy, the way it used to be when I was growing up, but I only have to look at the new Christmas schedules to see how far it’s fallen.