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Jamie Medhurst 📺📻🎞✝
@jimbomed.bsky.social
Professor of Film and Media, Aberystwyth University | Broadcasting history, media policy and regulation, documentary film history | Dad | Arweinydd Addoliad @eglwysfair.bsky.social
📺 Pa rôl ddylai Cymru ei chwarae wrth lunio ei dyfodol darlledu? Mewn erthygl newydd, mae'r Athro Jamie Medhurst yn trafod pam mae Cymru'n galw am fwy o lais ym maes darlledu wrth i gydbwysedd cyfansoddiadol y DU barhau i newid. 🖱️ tinyurl.com/yzpf8238 @jimbomed.bsky.social #darlledu #Cymru
UK Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy has said she is “minded to intervene” in Paramount‘s $110bn takeover of Warner Bros Discovery, a mega-merger involving Channel 5, CNN and TNT Sports, on grounds of media plurality and competition deadline.com/2026/06/para...
Paramount-Warner Merger: UK Government "Minded To Intervene"
UK culture secretary Lisa Nandy has said she is "minded to intervene" in Paramount's $110 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery.
deadline.com
Welsh poets’ use of the language of love and intimacy to describe their relationships with powerful patrons is being explored as part of a university's research
Study examines romantic language used by Medieval Welsh bards
Nation.Cymru staff Welsh poets’ use of the language of love and intimacy to describe their relationships with powerful patrons is being explored as part of a university’s research. The research projec...
wp.me
On the eve of the Eurovision Song Contest Final, here's something I wrote/curated for the '100 Voices of the BBC' project (scroll down for the bit on the Song Contest which includes some great material from the BBC Oral History Archive): www.bbc.co.uk/historyofthe...
Music
From Elgar to Eurovision, the BBC has provided an eclectic mix of musical entertainment since the earliest days of broadcasting. Although jazz wasn’t always welcome on the airwaves.
bbc.co.uk
Plaid and Reform represent two new, competing nationalist identities. Welsh Labour never grasped these shifts, nor its own failures, writes Dan Evans
The long, epic collapse of Welsh Labour
Plaid and Reform represent two new, competing nationalist identities. Welsh Labour never grasped these shifts, nor its own failures
prospectmagazine.co.uk
Good to see @andrewmale.bsky.social being on-point about the handling of old BBC material online and reflecting the Written Archives access campaign in his latest column for @sightsoundmag.bsky.social . The BBC gives with one hand, and takes with the other...
Diwrnod ardderchog yn Leeds ddoe - gweithdy Lloegr i drafod polisi darlledu yn y DU datganoledig. Yr Alban nesa, ym mis Medi! A great day for the 'Broadcasting Policy in a Devolved UK' team at the England workshop in Leeds yesterday. A great deal to mull over. Next stop Glasgow in September!
Delighted to be giving an online talk about British television in the 1920s and 1930s for the Art Deco Society on the evening of 17 March; tickets £5 for non-members. artdecosociety.uk/events-2/
A month on from publication my book 'Magic Rays of Light: The Early Years of Television in Britain' remains available from publishers Bloomsbury with discounts on the hardback, paperback and e-book versions. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/magic-ray...
Magic Rays of Light
On the evening of 26 January 1926, inventor John Logie Baird held a public demonstration in his workspace on London's Frith Street of a 'seeing by wireless' app…
bloomsbury.com
Today's post is largely a link to my polemic on The Conversation about the paucity of the arts on BBC television... www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/the-arts-on-...
The arts on BBC television, then and now - Illuminations
John Wyver writes: As we recover from the centenary, today’s post is just a single link to a piece I published on The Conversation yesterday: The BBC once made the arts ‘utterly central’ to television...
illuminationsmedia.co.uk
Our BFI Southbank screenings linked to the publication of Magic Rays of Light continues on Sunday, 25 January. This is a rare large-screen outing for the 1934 satire Radio Parade of 1935, with Will Hay as John Reith. Programme note reporduced here: www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/magic-rays-a...
Magic Rays at BFI: Radio Parade of 1935 - Illuminations
John Wyver writes: Our series of screenings at BFI Southbank linked to the publication of Magic Rays of Light: The Early Years of Television continues on Sunday, 25 January, with the second of three p...
illuminationsmedia.co.uk
Wake up, Westminster:after May, the Scottish and Welsh parliaments will likely be for independence | Will Hayward www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Wake up, Westminster:after May, the Scottish and Welsh parliaments will likely be for independence | Will Hayward
With Plaid Cymru and the SNP leading polls in their respective nations, can the United Kingdom continue in this – or any – form, asks Guardian columnist Will Hayward
theguardian.com
Excellent interview with Michael Sheen by daughter (mine, not his) Kate Wyver www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/j...
‘I can’t waste this’: Michael Sheen on his riskiest role yet – saving Wales’s national theatre
When funding cuts closed National Theatre Wales, the actor saw it as an emergency, and set about building a replacement. As its first show comes to the stage, he explains his plan to bring big product...
theguardian.com
A Welsh language campaign group has repeated calls to devolve broadcasting powers to Wales amid concerns about the impact of a new agreement between S4C and BBC iPlayer
Campaigners call for devolution of broadcasting powers following S4C and BBC agreement
Stephen Price A Welsh language campaign group has repeated calls to devolve broadcasting powers to Wales amid concerns about the impact of a new agreement between S4C and BBC iPlayer on S4C’s digital ...
nation.cymru
The successful series of screenings at BFI Southbank continues on Sunday, 18 January, with the first of three programmes of British feature films that offer imagined versions of television at its start. First up is the silent version of High Treason... www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/magic-rays-a...
Magic Rays at BFI: High Treason - Illuminations
John Wyver writes: The successful series of screenings at BFI Southbank continues on Sunday, 18 January, with the first of three programmes of British feature films that offer imagined versions of tel...
illuminationsmedia.co.uk
The Government finally published its Green Paper on the BBC today. So here’s a very timely piece from Tom Chivers on the future of the BBC as we go into the Charter Review. 'The choice is a democratic BBC or no BBC at all.' fabians.org.uk/whose-bbc/
Whose BBC? | Fabian Society
Fabian Society
fabians.org.uk
Delighted to be presenting alongside international colleagues in the MeCCSA Policy Network "Future of Public Service Media" series. The event is apparently sold out.
MeCCSA Policy Network Roundtable 1:Funding & governing public service media
MeCCSA Policy Network + IAPMR on the future of Public Service Media Winter 2025 Roundtable 1: learning from international examples
eventbrite.ie
"For a century, the BBC has been our classroom, our concert hall, our stage, our storyteller and our window on the world. Politicians need reminding: its much more than a news channel."
Defending our national treasure: the voice of the nation
Politicians see the BBC through the lens of TV news, but those who want to undermine it threaten a central plank of our national culture
eastangliabylines.co.uk
TG4, BBC Northern Ireland and S4C have announced a milestone co-commission of the first ever animated Christmas movie, created through a tri-nation co-production
S4C, TG4, and BBC NI unveil first ever co-commissioned animated Christmas movie
TG4, BBC Northern Ireland and S4C have announced a milestone co-commission of the first ever animated Christmas movie, created through a tri-nation co-production. Supported by Northern Ireland Screen’...
nation.cymru
Word of the day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet politician whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.
Today marks World #Television Day! 📺 Discover more about the struggles and successes of #Welsh broadcasting in 'A History of Independent Television in #Wales' by @jimbomed.bsky.social and 'Broadcasting for Wales' by Elain Price. 📚 www.uwp.co.uk/book/history... 📚 www.uwp.co.uk/book/broadca...
Was thrilled to help consult for this fantastic John Oliver segment on the tragic plight of U.S. public media and why, if we hope to be a democracy, we still need public media for so many things that commercial media will never provide. Deserves a wide viewership. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yknM...
Public Media: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
YouTube video by LastWeekTonight
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No one should have to face such threats. It would’ve been nice if Greene had realized this before she amplified and endorsed calls for executing Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama.
SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten. "I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
Important contribution from Lewis Goodall, who describes in devastating detail his own personal experiences - and suggests Robbie Gibb and David Grossman should be removed from their current posts.
Lewis Goodall@lewisgoodall.com · 12mo agoThe reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think. New piece from me. open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
@naomialderman.bsky.social's new book: "A friend - who’s read the book - texted me yesterday to say “I see they’ve decided to burn Tim Davie at the stake today”. And so I thought it was probably the right time to put this extract on Substack." naomialderman.substack.com/p/the-bbc-an...
the BBC and why it needs defending
even if you don't always agree with it, and sometimes it does things that you think are outright terrible
naomialderman.substack.com
Extract from report in the Guardian on the right wing manoeuvres that have led to the resignation of the DG Tim Davie
