The Media Club with Matt Deegan

Thirteen months after the search began, BBC Studios finds their new boss is the same as the old one. Why has the appointment taken so long? Matt Deegan is joined by media writer Maggie Brown, Newsweek International editor Alex Hudson and Endelman's Karin Robinson to discuss this and the week's other media news. Also on the show: over in Europe the radio industry has been getting together for Radio...

Media news and analysis, with new host Matt Deegan and guests this week consultant Paul Robinson (Creative Media Partners) and Elizabeth Carr-Ellis (Hello Magazine). Netflix buys up the rights to the Roald Dahl back catalogue. With Amazon, Disney and Apple all spending big this year, how does this deal match up in the streaming wars? Also on the programme: with Andrew Neil spilling all in the tabl...

“One Voice” is the UK’s biggest conference for voiceovers, and Leah Marks and Nic Redman from the British Podcast Award-nominated Voiceover Social podcast, have put together this collection of the best bits of One Voice 2021 especially for you, Media Podcast listeners. Featuring top impersonators Rory Bremner and Jess Robinson, as well as the best continuity announcers working in the business toda...

Joining  Olly Mann  this week are:  Deadline ’s international editor,  Jake Kanter , podcaster and founder of  Don’t Skip Media ,  Christina Moore  and the writer, podcaster and audio critic  Caroline Crampton . This week: It’s deja vu all over again, as the government ponders selling Channel 4 – but is the case for a sale stronger now than it was five years...

Today we've handpicked three choice sessions from this year's mammoth international conference on podcasting, Podcast Day 24. Featuring: Shima Oliaee on the making of Dolly Parton's America former WNYC & BBC exec Tony Phillips on the future of audio Richard Palmer from Triton Digital and Jamie Cho from Commercial Radio Australia on how Australia is catching up with the States Thanks to Podcast...

Olly Mann  is joined by the editor of  Newsweek International ,  Alex Hudson  and chief content officer of  Somethin’ Else ,  Steve Ackerman . This week: Audio awards aplenty at the ARIAs. Discovery merges with WarnerMedia and Amazon buys Bond’s back catalogue – along with the rest of MGM. BBC Studios struggles to secure a new boss and the fallout continues from Marti...

Joining Olly Mann are the CEO of production company  Nine Lives Media  and exec producer of Songs Of Praise,  Cat Lewis , radio presenter and broadcast consultant  Paul Robinson  and journalist and founder of podcast company  Message Heard ,  Jake Warren .  This week: Studio audiences are set to return but some shows including Have I Got News For You will al...

Joining  Olly Mann  this week are the news editor of the  Press Gazette ,  Charlotte Tobitt , radio executive  Trevor Dann  and digital editor at  Immediate Media ,  Rebecca Messina This week: As Spotify and Apple launch paid subscriptions for podcasters what will it mean for the way audio makers get paid? Also: News UK scales back its TV ambitions. Who migh...

Olly Mann   is joined by the entertainment director of  Heat magazine  and host of the  PilotTV  podcast,  Boyd Hilton ,  writer, editor and campaigner currently working at  Hello magazine ,  Elizabeth Carr-Ellis , and broadcast consultant and director of  RadioTechCon ,  Ann Charles . This week: How might coverage of future high-profile death...

Olly Mann is joined by planning director at Edelman,  Karin Robinson , LBC presenter, author and broadcaster  Iain Dale  and media executive and director of broadcasting at City University London,  Professor Lis Howell .  This week: BBC Four winds down original commissioning so will an archive-only channel be more high-brow or low-brow than BBC Two? Spotify joins the live...

Olly Mann is joined by journalist, broadcaster and one half of Fortunately… , Jane Garvey and the managing director of Folder Media and co-founder of the British Podcast Awards , Matt Deegan . This week: The BBC announces plans to shift programmes and networks around the UK but will audiences see and hear a difference?  As Facebook ends its feud with the Australian government and news provide...

Olly Mann is joined by journalist and Channel 4 historian Maggie Brown and Deadline ’s international editor, Jake Kanter to discuss BBC Three’s return to broadcast TV. A former Fleet Street editor reveals he supported the IRA. New Scientist is snapped up by the publisher of the Daily Mail and the budget offers some financial help for freelancers plus Ant Middleton won’t be back on Channel 4, but w...

Olly Mann is joined by the editor of Newsweek International, Alex Hudson and TV development executive Steven Bricknall . This week: Chattering classes pull up a chair in Clubhouse; Australian Facebook users lose access to news articles in a row with the Australian government; BBC World News TV is pulled in China and World Service radio goes silent in Hong Kong; Meghan Markle wins a long-running pr...

Olly Mann is joined by director of Creative Media Partners, Paul Robinson , founder of production house Gold Wala, Faraz Osman and the creative director of Zinc Media, Emma Hindley . On today’s show: Allegations of bullying emerge from behind the Gogglebox sofas. Why the advertising standards authority has clipped Ryanair’s wings and former editors of the New York Times and FT club together to buy...

It's our fifth annual predictions special! Join Olly Mann as he floats swiftly through the lockdown homes of our media pundits to discover what the year head might have in store for the UK media industry... and listen as they squirm for being unfairly held to account for predictions made in 2020. Featuring the predictions of Jake Kanter (Deadline), Faraz Osman (Gold Wala), media writer Maggie Brow...

Olly is joined by Matt Deegan (Folder Media) and Rebecca Messina (Immediate Media) to discuss the media news from the past fortnight. On today’s show: Spotify snaps up Harry and Meghan - we take a look at the former royals’ podcast strategy and another spendy year for the Swedish music giant; we look to the future of broadcasting, as OFCOM announces a new review of the TV landscape. Also on t...

Who will launch first? The battle for TV news hots up as Rupert Murdoch’s News UK TV takes on Andrew Neil’s GB News. Our esteemed media panel this week are producer and director of Wakey! Deborah Coughlin, Hot Pod writer and journalist Caroline Crampton and chief content officer at Somethin’ Else, Steve Ackerman. They discuss: Facebook announcing a big payday for UK news publishers - but is i...

Olly Mann  is joined by journalist and Channel 4 historian  Maggie Brown , planning director at Edelman and host of  Democratically 2020 ,  Karin Robinson  and broadcast consultant and director of  RadioTechCon ,  Ann Charles . This week: Will some long-lost paperwork clear the BBC of claims it coerced Princess Diana into giving  that  Panorama intervie...

Olly Mann  is joined by professor emeritus of journalism at City University,  Lis Howell  and entertainment director of Heat magazine and host of the  PilotTV  podcast,  Boyd Hilton . This week: As news channels roll into a third day of USA election coverage, we ask which broadcasters won the hearts and minds of our panelists. As  The Sun  successfully defen...

Olly Mann is joined by radio consultant and director of Creative Media Partners Paul Robinson , editor of Newsweek International Alex Hudson and former Press Association, HuffPost UK and ITV News executive and now the founder of Bird Lime Media, Dawn Kelly . This week: Is the Daily Telegraph correcting a glaring error by bringing its sub-editors back in house? Jeffrey Katzenberg throws in the towe...

Olly Mann is joined by co-host of ‘ Fortunately... ’ and Woman’s Hour , Jane Garvey , international editor of Deadline , Jake Kanter and print journalist at Hello magazine, Elizabeth Carr-Ellis . On today’s show: Is the government about to sell off Channel 4? Does the BBC have an Oxbridge problem? And can the lure of Andrew Neil entice viewers to news channel newbie GB News ? Plus, we explore the...

Olly Mann is joined by head of communications at ITN and former editor of Broadcast magazine Lisa Campbell , founder of production house Gold Wala Faraz Osman and Creative Director of Folder Media Matt Deegan .   On today’s show, Ofcom approves Radio 1 Dance to stream on BBC Sounds but commercial rivals are unhappy. Could Apple News’ podcast of print articles help save the world’s biggest new...

Olly Mann  presents news, analysis and gossip from the creative media industries, with magazine journalist and blogger  Elizabeth Carr-Ellis , creative director of Folder Media,  Matt Deegan  and editor of Newsweek International,  Alex Hudson . This week: Times Radio takes to the air; hundreds of media jobs are lost; millions of dollars are poured into the podcast market;...

Olly Mann  is joined by planning director at Edelman and host of  Democratically 2020 ,  Karin Robinson ; director of Creative Media Partners,  Paul Robinson ; and senior lecturer in sports journalism at the University of East London,  Dekan Apajee . On today’s show: Who’s splashing £30m to boost diversity but asking staff to volunteer for redundancy? The Daily Mail outshi...

Media industry news and gossip presented by  Olly Mann  with guests  Faraz Osman  (managing director of production house Gold Wala), podcaster  Christina Moore  (Don’t Skip Media) and  Rebecca Messina  (digital editor at Immediate Media). This week: Hundreds of audio production companies sign an  equality pact to fight racism in the industry ; Editors a...