The Media Club with Matt Deegan

Olly Mann is joined by broadcast consultant Paul Robinson and PACT chair Laura Mansfield to discuss the week’s top media stories. After months of speculation the Government has set out its stall for BBC charter renewal negotiations. From how the corporation should be funded to its ultimate cultural mission, the panel discuss what issues the nation’s favourite broadcaster needs to address. Also on...

Media news and analysis with your host Olly Mann and guests Faraz Osman (Managing Director, Lemonade Money) and Leon Wilson (Managing Director, Talkback).As the BBC Trust approves plans to move youth channel BBC Three online, what impact will this have on young viewers and on the corporation’s hopes for a favourable renegotiation of its Royal Charter? Yonderland’s main writer Larry Rickard discuss...

Media news, analysis and occasional pronouncements on the death of linear media since 2006. Host Olly Mann is joined by radio exec and Sound Women founder Maria Williams, and producer and founder of Viral Spiral Damian Collier. It’s been a busy week for Chris Evans, with speculation over a new series of TFI Friday overtaken (!) by an offer to host the reboot of Top Gear. With the support of fans a...

Olly Mann is joined by Moz Dee (Contented Media) & Jake Kanter (Broadcast) to discuss the biggest stories of the week, including key insights from Creative Week 2015.Broadcast has launched a campaign offering ‘qualified support’ for the corporation during its Royal Charter renewal negotiations - Jake Kanter explains why. In a week where BBC director of television Danny Cohen spelled out the danger...

Tabloid journalist Susie Boniface – also known as the Fleet Street Fox – and broadcaster Maggie Brown join Olly Mann to discuss the largest compensation payment in phone hacking history. As a High Court judge orders more than £250,000 to be paid to Sadie Frost - the biggest single payout in phone-hacking history - Trinity Mirror sets aside £28m to pay more alleged victims. What impact might this h...

Boyd Hilton of Heat Magazine, former Discovery exec and City University professor Lis Howell and Alex Hudson, former Mirror journalist and BBC Question Time producer join Olly Mann to discuss how the major broadcasters and press outlets have handled the most unpredictable election in living memory. With most commentators lulled into thinking the result would be close, the panel discuss which news...

The BBC Trust delays their initial decision until the autumn, knocking back plans to move the youth channel online only. Broadcast consultant Paul Robinson and Guardian Edinburgh International TV Festival Director Lisa Campbell join Olly Mann to discuss this and the week’s other top media stories. The makers of the Adblock Plus software win a court case against two German news organisations - what...

News and analysis, this week with the MD of content company Somethin’ Else Steve Ackerman and journalist Alex Hudson. In this edition: Jason Seiken has left the Telegraph, but in what state? The panel discusses what the news organisation needs to do to take back the digital initiative. We have a UK election round-up - since our last podcast ITV has produced a debate programme, BBC Scotland journal...

Olly Mann discusses the future of Top Gear – including a rumoured deal with Netflix – with the help of Folder Media’s creative director Matt Deegan and broadcaster and DJ Ed Adoo. The BBC have decided not to renew Jeremy Clarkson’s contract. With his Top Gear co-presenters hinting at solidarity with their fallen comrade, what does it mean for the future of the corporation’s cash cow? Also: Radio 1...

Broadcast consultant Paul Robinson presents highlights from the annual radio festival, with guests Helen Boden (BBC), Elvis Duran (Z100) and Australian presenter Mel Greig. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Media writer Maggie Brown and managing director of Lemonade Money Faraz Osman join Olly Mann to discuss the week’s biggest stories. With Jeremy Clarkson suspended from the BBC, Top Gear’s last episodes postponed and a live tour in doubt, the panel discusses what more the broadcaster could have done with this troubled talent. Can they afford to lose him, and what message does it send out to other s...

As the long running Radio 4 show Face The Facts comes to an end, presenter John Waite shares some of his presenting secrets, in conversation with Peter Curran. Recorded at 'What They Didn't Teach Me At Presenting School', a masterclass ran by the Radio Independents Group. For more details on other (free) workshops ran by the group, visit rigtrain.co.uk. Thanks to John Waite and event producer Matt...

Olly Mann presents media industry insight with the help of James Robinson of Powerscourt PR and Matt Kelly, group digital director at newspaper group Local World. This week: In the aftermath of resignations, accusations and a full-blooded attack on other papers by the Telegraph, how should print journalists treat the relationship between editorial and advertising? Did a golden age of editorial int...

Hexacopters are taking off on TV. These six-rotor miniature helicopters carry broadcast-quality cameras and are fast replacing full-size helicopters for aerial shooting. Operated by remote control, shots from hexacopters - or 'drones' - are becoming more familiar to TV audiences - from Olympic skiing coverage in Sochi 2014 to entertainment shows like The Great British Bake Off. Owain Rich pioneere...

Media industry analysis with Olly Mann and guests. This week Olly is joined by City University’s Professor Lis Howell and the man behind Never Mind The Buzzcocks, Celebrity Juice and QI - Leon Wilson, Managing Director of Talkback. As the ink dries on the biggest broadcasting deal in Premier League history we discuss how BT and Sky will attempt to recoup their £5bn spending spree to secure English...

In this bonus edition, Matt Kelly (Group Digital Director, Local World) makes a compelling argument for the kind of press we have in the UK. He did this at an event hosted by BUG, called 'Do We Get The Press We Deserve?' hosted by Miranda Sawyer. Thanks to both of them for agreeing to share this clip. To find out more about BUG, go to buglondon.co.uk Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more...

Analysis and discussion on the latest media news, with Olly Mann, Lisa Campbell (Director, Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival) and radio consultant Matt Deegan (Folder Media).It’s been a future-looking week for journalists, with both the BBC publishing a report on the future of its news output and Professor Emily Bell (Director, Tow Center for Digital Journalism) delivering the H...

The podcast returns with its irreverent take on the latest media news. Olly Mann is joined by Steve Ackerman (MD, Somethin Else) and Boyd Hilton (TV editor, Heat magazine).After a particularly difficult beginning to the year, the panel discuss the reaction to last week’s attacks in Paris - how much influence does social media now have on the mainstream news agenda? OFCOM’s verdict on what constitu...

Happy new year! In this first instalment of 2015, Olly Mann invites pundits from across broadcast, print and online to take an informed guess at what might happen over the next twelve months. Fi Glover, Ben Cooper and Jane Garvey discuss their expectations for radio in a post-Serial world, whilst John Plunkett, Faraz Osman, Jake Kanter and Lisa Campbell predict the year in television (including co...

Sony are feeling the heat from Hollywood over its hacking strategy: after cancelling the launch of The Interview and lambasting the media for writing stories on released emails, there’s a backlash from audiences, talent and the press. Powerscourt PR consultant James Robinson tells us what they should have done. Also on the programme: Serial comes to an end with record-breaking podcast downloads, C...

Interviews and reaction from the annual Women in Film and Television Awards 2014, held on Friday in central London. Helen Zaltzman speaks to the BBC's chief international correspondent Lyse Doucet, comedian Sue Perkins, producer Katie Swinden (Marvellous, Peaky Blinders) about their achievements this year, plus Jon Snow, Baroness King, Jake Kanter (Broadcast Magazine) and Lisa Campbell (Guardian E...

The government reveal a long-awaited tax break for the BBC and commercial productions - Olly Mann discusses the potential impact for the sector with Faraz Osman (Lemonade Money) and Matt Deegan (Funkids Radio, Folder Media).Also on the podcast: Vodafone raises prospects of a spending spree with a quad-play service involving Virgin Media and possibly Blinkbox. The culling of theatre critics at nati...

Olly Mann presents media industry analysis and gossip with City University journalism lecturer Lis Howell and director of the Edinburgh TV Festival, Lisa Campbell. On the show this week: The lads’ lad Dapper Laughs lands himself in trouble - but was he just a victim of trial by Twitter? The investigative journalist known as the Fake Sheik is unveiled by Panorama - but as politicians debate charter...

Olly Mann presents informed analysis of the media industries with radio expert Paul Robinson and former Saatchi & Saatchi creative director Chris Arnold. On the show this week: After clocking up five million views of a naked DJ on a wrecking ball, the BBC trust allows Radio 1 to launch a video channel on the iPlayer - but will the YouTube generation come and watch? Competition regulators force Sky...

Analysis of the latest ratings for the UK radio industry - and lots more besides - with Olly Mann, media writer Maggie Brown and Broadcast magazine's news editor Jake Kanter. Nick Grimshaw takes Radio 1 back over the psychologically-important 10 million mark, whilst Heart have a bad quarter - but what does it all mean? Radio consultant Matt Deegan swings by with his top talking points. Also on the...