Daily Media Live Blog – 17 March, 2025
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Six Nations and More: What to Watch this Weekend – 15 and 16 March, 2025
Lot’s of great sporting action this weekend. There are two cup finals and the climax of rugby’s Six Nations. Premier League Football League Cup Final Six Nations Rugby If you’re travelling abroad but want to access your usual service to watch, you will need a VPN. NordVPN is the one I use.
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The NWSL Makes its Play
Last night, (midnight UK time) the NWSL, America’s domestic women’s soccer football league, kicked off. The format is fairly straightforward and is typical of US sports. Fourteen teams play each other home and away and then there is a playoff to decide the champions. (Orlando Pride won last year.) The media setup is interesting though.
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Mythic Quest, Mistborn and More – What I’m Watching, Reading, Listening to, 12 March, 2025
What I’m Watching Mythic Quest is the best show on Apple TV+ and it has returned for season four. If you haven’t seen it yet, it’s ostensibly about people working at a successful video games company, but you do not have to be a gamer to love it. Everything is about the relationships between the
Who Cares About The Oscars? – with Sean McNulty
Sean McNulty from The Ankler discusses the Oscars, the SAG Awards and the future of these kinds of shows. Does anyone actually care?! The viewership for the Academy Awards show stayed stable this year, once all the various streaming options were taken into account. Away from awards, we look at the growth of The Ankler
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Climbing the AI Learning Curve
Almost all of the media industry, one way or the other, is talking about AI. And quite right too. The technology, whichever way it progresses, will have a huge impact on everything from marketing to journalism and beyond. We’re not talking about nonsense like NFTs here. My view, as I’ve outlined before, is to focus
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British Journalism Review – They Make Press Barons Look Good
I had the thrill of contributing to the British Journalism Review for the first time. The piece was published in the latest edition of the journal. It covers Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, President Donald Trump and the media ecosystem bringing them all together. An excerpt is below: Was it a Nazi salute? Was it just
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What to Watch this Weekend – 8 and 9 March, 2025
I wanted to introduce a new segment in which I recommend some thing to watch over the weekend and tell you how to watch them! This week, is a sport focussed one, but it won’t always be like that. Premier League Football Nottinghm Forest vs Man City: Saturday, March 8. Kick-off at 12.30pm GMT. Watch
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You Don’t Need to Watch Meghan Markle on Netflix
Yesterday, in a move that surely underlines my deep dedication to readers of The Addition, I sat down to watch the hottest new thing in streaming, determined to let you know what all the fuss is about. I made it through 11 minutes of Meghan Markle’s Netflix series. Having survived a discussion on bees, homemade
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Nike Advert – So Win
The latest Nike advert, entitled “So Win”, combines two of my favourite things – Led Zeppelin and women’s sport. It features a number of superstars, including Caitlin Clark and Sha’Carri Richardson. The spot seems to be appearing throughout various bits of sports programming and I’m here for it:
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