Media World: Channel Hopping

This article is a light-hearted piece in which the author discusses the December 2002 appointment of a new chief executive of the British TV channel, Channel Four, after several months without anyone on the role.

Media World

Channel-Hopping

Peter Fiddick

And a happy new year to you, too. Let us begin 2002 as wed love to go on. So we wont talk about the continuing shrinking budgets of the US ad market. Nor will we mention the 10% job cuts at the UKs Telegraph newspapers.

We shall rush hastily past the boss of the Trinity Mirror groups three national newspapers forecasting year-on-year revenues down 20% in December, with no hope of uplift until the World Cup comes. (And, boy, the weight of media and marketing hopes riding on the coming summers soccer tourney makes the...

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