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Fallout from TOTP abounds.(DOOLEY'S DIARY)
Remember where you heard it: The strength of feeling in the industry over TOTP last week was certainly clear for all to hear. How telling that at least two senior pluggers confessed that they only recently tuned in for the first time in months--an experience which reminded them why they had stopped watching. But if we as an industry had stopped watching, why should we be surprised that the public had too? ... Conspiracy theories abounded that the Beeb may have even announced the axing several weeks in advance of the execution date, hoping that a public outcry might allow it to relaunch the show in a wave of high-profile public sympathy ... Even if it doesn't do so, don't be surprised to see the return of a chart show on the Beeb sometime soon--the Corporation's chart deal with OCC was re-signed literally in the last month, including rights for its Radio One and TV broadcasts of the show ... So who was it who firmly brushed off suggestions in November 2004 that
TOTP found itself in "the last chance saloon" after he announced the show was switching to BBC2? None other than BBC exec Mark Cooper, who was last week having to explain the Boob's decision for axing the show just a year after its channel switch ... But just as TOTP is finishing, our spies tell us that Channel 4 has a busy summer of music programming ahead ... A salute to Billy Bragg who managed to get MySpace.com to change its terms over rights to artists' material following his protest in these very pages just last week.
"I'm really encouraged by this, because the issue of ownership is really ...
- Thank you for the music, TOTP.
- News wire article from: Europe Intelligence Wire July 28, 2006 700+ words
...the show, performing on the TOTP stage became almost a rite of...Stones went down in history as TOTP's opening band, having just...The Beatles, who played the week's No 1, I Want to Hold Your Hand. TOTP TIMELINE n 1964: Top Of The...
- Mark Ritson on branding: TOTP's final top 10 is lesson to us all.(Top of the...
- Magazine article from: Marketing August 2, 2006 700+ words
...Here then, is this week's countdown. 10...contemporariness. When TOTP began to lose its...eternal. In 1964, TOTP told kids what the...bestselling records of the week had been. Today...in the UK was this week? Me neither. 8...consistent. While TOTP's positioning was...
- Ten nails in the coffin of TOTP: key players in the music and television...
- Magazine article from: Music Week July 1, 2006 700+ words
...plugger. "That was an impossible task. TOTP was never going to win against the most...speed at which things were advancing and TOTP was becoming an anachronism." 6 Targeting...and children's shows:' says former TOTP executive producer Chris Cowey. "It...
- It's the last dance for totp.
- News wire article from: Europe Intelligence Wire June 27, 2006 700+ words
...topped the singles chart in 1979, TOTP was pulling in a record audience of 19 million. Over the years TOTP has featured everybody from The Beatles...only planned to last for some six weeks - but TOTP turned out to be such a hit with...
- TOTP wins 'fresh start' on BBC2: BBC aims to switch focus away from viewing...
- Magazine article from: Music Week Talbot, Martin December 4, 2004 700+ words
...combination, every week." Cooper highlights...shows. In recent weeks, it has ranked...unclear whether TOTP would immediately...discussion about TOTP is about ratings...to nothing." "TOTP is a show with...retained the following week in direct competition...that, on isolated ...
- What the music industry says.(TOTP news special)
- Magazine article from: Music Week July 1, 2006 700+ words
The irony is TOTP is one of the greatest music brands ever. If you sit down with...international artists the only programme they associate with the UK is TOTP; they want to do TOTP Lucian Grainge, Universal Music Group International chairman and...
- Minister: TOTP is for 'dad's music'.(TOTP news special)
- Magazine article from: Music Week July 1, 2006 700+ words
...music. At the end of the day, TOTP is not created to be a programme...decision because, of course, TOTP is popular, but it has done...that got them 7m viewers every week now, they would probably kill...feel 'it has gone'--and TOTP has gone? On a personal level...
- LETTER: Bring back TOTP - and here's how.(Letter to the editor)
- Magazine article from: Music Week March 31, 2007 700+ words
...future of music on BBC TV (Music Week, March 17). The 360-degree...young audience. Meanwhile, the TOTP magazine has just increased by...largest music title. As Music Week showed in a Q&A with...last October, young kids miss TOTP and say they would watch it if...
- TOTP launches digital magazine.
- News wire article from: Europe Intelligence Wire September 1, 2006 700+ words
...6% year-on-year at 116,858 at TOTP, with almost all titles in the sector...up a whole new way for readers to enjoy TOTP magazine by incorporating a range of interactive...be sent the first full digital issue of TOTP free. However, thereafter the digital...
- The TOTP countdown.(TOTP news special)
- Magazine article from: Music Week July 1, 2006 700+ words
...a large part in programming TOTP--the number one record...if they don't move for four weeks. No record but the number one...Roxy in direct competition to TOTP. CBS Television broadcasts...Council, which stipulates that TOTP (and other BBC TV shows) need...