The Media Club with Matt Deegan

Olly Mann presents your regular insight into the media industries with Channel 4 historian Maggie Brown and deputy editor of metro.co.uk, Alex Hudson.This week: The Guardian turns a profit for the first time in decades - so should other newspapers liberate their news from behind a paywall? Danny Baker gets his marching orders from the BBC; As Channel 4 opens its new HQ in Leeds, PACT launches an accelerator programme for independent production companies in the region; plus, could negative coverage of sensitive issues turn newsrooms into hostile environments? Plus, it’s a battle of legends in the Media Podcast Quiz.Please consider taking out a voluntary subscription to help fund and support the show: themediapodcast.com/donateA PPM Production, produced by Rebecca Grisedale-Sherry. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode of The Media Business Podcast, ALF Insight’s MD Fraser Murdoch is joined by partner and founder of agency start-up HMS16 Richard Hammond and Goodstuff’s co-founder Andrew Stephens to discuss how each wins new business at their respective advertising agencies. Given their different models, HMS16 a start-up and Goodstuff a network agency breakaway, this makes for a frank and compelling listen. In the second part of the episode, Fraser is joined by Adeline Bonnet, ALF’s head of content, who discusses her plan to launch an imminent new service, ALF Accelerators, which covers tomorrow’s big spenders in advertising. For more from ALF Insight, visit alfinsight.com A PPM Production for Media Business Insight. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Olly Mann presents insight, analysis and gossip from across the creative media industries with guests Faraz Osman (managing director of production company Gold Wala) and BBC Woman’s Hour presenter Jane Garvey.This week, will a cash injection bring children back to TV? Elsewhere, in the magazine industry, we discuss which face of 80s pop culture is getting a lift, Global’s billboard ambitions and the results of the second ever gender pay gap survey. All that and more - including the Media Podcast Quiz.Please consider taking out a voluntary subscription to help fund and support the show: themediapodcast.com/donateA PPM Production, produced by Matt Hill. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our European correspondent Paul Robinson reports from the recent Radiodays Europe conference, with full interviews with Radio 1 Breakfast show host Greg James about his first year at the helm, and the BBC Managing Editor Bob Shennan on refreshing breakfast on all their national music stations. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Olly Mann presents insight, analysis and gossip from the creative media industries - this week with guests Paul Robinson (director of Creative Media Partners) and Matt Deegan (managing director, Folder Media).This week, as the ink dries on the BBC’s biggest deal in history to take control of Dave and his sisters Gold and Eden, will a licensing agreement with Discovery be enough to fund a looming gap in the licence fee?Also, who should archive user-generated content - and does it matter if it disappears into the ether? Reality TV stars ask for more support from producers, and we preview the first slate of shows you (may) be watching on Apple TV+.Plus, as always, the Media Podcast quiz.Please consider taking out a voluntary subscription to help fund and support the show: themediapodcast.com/donateA PPM Production, produced by Rebecca Grisedale-Sherry. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Broadcast continues its 60th anniversary celebrations with a Media Business Podcast of its Broadcast Indie Survey Reveal event.Indie Survey editor Jesse Whittock introduces the top-line findings of this year’s survey, before Broadcast editor Chris Curtis presides over the ‘State of the Nation’ panel.He is joined by Naked Entertainment chief operating officer Susie Dark; Curve Media joint chief executive Camilla Lewis; Endemol Shine UK chief executive Richard Johnson and All3Media chief operating officer Sara Geater to discuss the health of the indie sector, and identify the opportunities and challenges facing production companies.The panel was recorded at London’s Southbank Centre in March.There will be further B60 Gamechangers panels throughout the year, and new episodes of the Media Business Podcast will be released monthly. The latter is produced by Media Business Insight, the publisher of Screen International and Broadcast.Please subscribe at screedaily.com or broadcastnow.co.uk or wherever you get your podcasts.A PPM Production for Media Business Insight. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jim Waterson (Media Editor, The Guardian) & Caroline Crampton (writer, Hot Pod & The Listener) join Olly Mann to debate the week's UK media news.They discuss how an unlikely alliance is forming to try and change the way Google, Facebook and others dominate the media market, as well as the new research showing the divide between podcast audiences in the US and UK.Also on the programme, the panel chat about how Disney is edging closer to completing its deal for Fox... plus Global and Bauer announce big changes to commercial radio with a flurry of press releases.AND in the media quiz, it’s the return of our favourite game: Famous Last Words.You can sign up for Caroline's new newsletter, The Listener, at thelistener.emailA PPM Production, produced by Matt Hill. Help keep the show on the air by taking out a voluntary subscription. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Broadcast kicks off its 60th anniversary celebrations with a Media Business Podcast of its Gamechangers session, featuring Stephen Lambert and Sir Peter Bazalgette.Recorded at The Soho Hotel in February, the Studio Lambert founder and ITV chairman shared a stage to discuss their varied careers, the health or drama and non-scripted programming, and the current challenges and opportunities facing broadcasters and producers.There will be further B60 Gamechangers panels throughout the year, and new episodes of the Media Business Podcast will be released monthly. The latter is produced by Media Business Insight, the publisher of Screen International and Broadcast. Please subscribe to the Media Business Podcast now to never miss an episode.A PPM Production for Media Business Insight. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Are the BBC’s politics programmes still cutting the mustard, can Snapchat beat Netflix at their own game? Plus, the government-backed plan to save local newspapers, and the secret group of journalists stoking online harassment.Olly Mann is joined by Lis Howell (City University) and Susie Marsh (ITN Productions) to discuss these stories and more, with Olly Mann.A PPM Production, produced by Rebecca Grisedale-Sherry. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Media news and analysis, this week with Renay Richardson (Broccoli Content) and Alex Hudson (metro.co.uk).The panel discuss what the Spotify takeover of Gimlet means for podcasters, the solution to digital journalism’s crisis as The Pool closes and BuzzFeed shed jobs... and how Instagram’s new ‘sensitivity screen’ may protect users.All that, plus chatter on the week Sky News turned the cameras on their own team, Will Young’s OFCOM complaint over the Grand Tour, and in the Media Quiz, we play ‘Love and Hate’.A PPM Production, produced by Rebecca Grisedale-Sherry. Support the podcast by signing up to a voluntary subscription. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.