Media Talk podcast: BT ups its game against Sky

Nov 14, 2013, 07:15 AM

John Plunkett is joined by Steve Ackerman, MD of content creation company Somethin' Else and Emily Bell, director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism, to discuss the biggest media stories of the week. As BT acquires the rights to the Champions League from next year, has Sky – which saw its shares drop at the start of this week – taken its eye off the ball? Home secretary Theresa May has suggested that the decline in sales of local newspapers is the fault of the BBC; Emily Bell compares the UK market with the what's happening in the BBC-less US. A new campaign called Rewind and Reframe launched on Monday, just as wrecking ball aficionado Miley Cyrus declares herself "one of the biggest feminists in the world". Helen Zaltzman reports on the pressure put on the UK government to bring in a age advisory system for online videos. Plus, we join Rebecca Nicholson in her TV lair where she discusses daytime television, the ongoing Homeland unpleasantness and MasterChef: the Professionals. John PlunkettMatt HillSteve AckermanEmily BellRebecca NicholsonHelen ZaltzmanKerry McCarthy