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The Media Club

An irreverent look at the week's media news — television, radio, streaming, print and everything in between.

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Episodes — 2023

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• Netflix Global Stats Unveiled, Zucker Eyes All3Media15 December 2023
• Samir Shah takes BBC Chair, Spotify cuts & a Premier League win8 December 2023
• Telegraph saga, Newsnight trim and Bauer re-brand1 December 2023
• Marcus Ryder MBE: "We are all just one commission away..."27 November 2023
• Freelancer Appeal, Top Gear “Rested” & TikTok Pranks24 November 2023
• TV Investment Threatened, Commissioning Hopes Rise & Jamie Laing’s Podcast Empire17 November 2023
• Reach Cuts & Vorders Breaks Lineker's Law10 November 2023
• Return Of The Media Bill, Boris on GB News & Radio Gaza3 November 2023
• Who Will Buy The Telegraph?27 October 2023
• MIPCOM, Doctors and a guide to sensitive broadcasting20 October 2023
• The End of Newsnight? Paper domination and YouTube's pod move13 October 2023
• BBC Radio Fire Sale, Ai PUB(lisher) Crawl and Spotify Audiobooks6 October 2023
• British Podcast Awards 202329 September 2023
• Rupert Steps Back, Toxic Brand and RTS roundup22 September 2023
• Amazon Bets The Farm, Osborne's Power Pod & the Changing Face of PR15 September 2023
• Mark Thompson's 'To Do'List, Marketers v Consumers, Goodbye Facebook News8 September 2023
• Welcome to The Media Club!6 September 2023
• A RAJARs special2 August 2023
• BBC v The Sun, RTÉ Barter Woes, Labour take on the press14 July 2023
• Threads Launches, Clarkson vs IPSO, City AM seeks buyer7 July 2023
• Netflix vs the UK, Poaching Googlebox & A Farewell to National Geographic30 June 2023
• ITV eyes up All3Media, HBO/Netflix deal & The New European celebrates Brexit (sort of)23 June 2023
• TV vs MPs, Tackling Tate & the Top 10 News Pods Revealed16 June 2023
• Licht exits CNN, Telegraph for sale, EU v AI9 June 2023
• C4 payouts, paycuts and potential acquisitions2 June 2023
• The End of Phil & Holly, Cadwalladr's Hefty Bill & Podcast Show26 May 2023
• BBC Verify, RAJARs... and where are all the unscripted shows?19 May 2023
• Economic Slowdown, CNN & BBC Showdowns12 May 2023
• Writers' Strikes, Vice On The Brink, Farewell Richard Sharp5 May 2023
• Tucker v Fox, MIPTV & yet more journos axed28 April 2023
• Bye-bye Buzzfeed News, Fox & Dominion Settle, plus Shalini Govil-Pai on Google TV21 April 2023
• Succession spoilers, Elon vs BBC & Global invests in Glasgow13 April 2023
• ARIAs, Radio Days Europe & RadioGPT31 March 2023
• BAFTA TV rundown, streaming slowdown & TikTok's troubles24 March 2023
• Impartiality and the BBC: where do we go from here?17 March 2023
• BBC's Lineker dilemma, Spotify makeover & Unedited's pilot season10 March 2023
• The Future Of Audio2 March 2023
• ‘Death knocks’ in 2023, Bob ‘Icebreaker’ Iger & newsrooms get scruffier24 February 2023
• TV tax fright, 'nepo baby' trends & Love Productions' Richard McKerrow17 February 2023
• (Another) Government Shake Up, tales from GrowthLab & Iger's plans for Disney10 February 2023
• Bad Economics at the BBC, the AI-Buzz & RAJARs Roundup3 February 2023
• Audio Advertising Summit, Ken Bruce's transfer, DMG Media restructures & the bill that SLAPPs27 January 2023
• Media Podcast Predictions 202320 January 2023

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