Crosses the Line on 3 Continents and Gets Burned?
by Denis Campbell
It’s not been a good week for Rupert Murdoch. 1st he was caught in an interview by his son’s flagship Aussie broadcast network calling President Obama a racist and denying that FOX News’ Glenn Beck compared Obama to Stalin.
Then his flagship London tabloid The Sun [...]
Tag | BSkyB
Rupert Murdoch’s Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Week
Posted on 13 November 2009 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: BSkyB, Donald Trump, FOX News, Glenn Beck, google, New York Post, obama, President Obama, Rupert Murdoch, Sky+, The Guardian, The Sun, The Times, Tories, Wall Street Journal
Tough for Convention Telly Abroad
Posted on 26 August 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: 4 in the booth, 4 minutes behind last night, Abroad, Access Hollywood, amazing online HD Player, bad hair days, BBC, Bill O’Reilly, BSkyB, C-Span, CNBC, CNN, Convention Telly, DNCC, four terrestrial Dutch (and three German) channels, FOX, Good Evening Wales, HD, hundreds of choices, John Stewart, Keith Olbermann, leg muscles atrophy, McCain, MSNBC, NASA like array, obama, poker 24/7, rip-off quiz call-in shows, Rupert Murdoch, rural Eastern Holland, satellite dish, Sky News, Sky+, streaming live convention feeds, sync up, taping on SKY+, telly makers, three shows run in the background, tired of them both, Tough, UK, US Congressional elections
Ten years abroad and I have to say it is getting better. I now have C-SPAN and MSNBC streaming live convention feeds on each computer, CNN is taping on SKY+ in case Mr. Sandman calls before 5 am local time. The DNCC have an amazing online HD Player for streaming video that is better than [...]
Buy a Car Get a Free Handgun
Posted on 02 August 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (1) | Tags: $250 in petrol vouchers, 2010, BBC, Ben Verwaayen, bitter, British Telecom, Broadband, BSkyB, BT, business boost, Butler, car dealership, consultants, David Cameron, Ford, free handgun, General Motors, Gordon Brown, home communications platform, interactive, Keltec .380, Labour Party, live, Mark Muller, marketing opportunity, Max Motors, Midwest, Missouri, movies, obama, photon cannons, pollsters, pop-up video game array, PR, programmes, Radio 5, real-time, Rupert Murdoch, similar promotion, Sky+, telephony, Tesco, Tesco Supermarkets, UK, USA
The BBC reported a Missouri, USA car dealership offered a promotion where if one buys a car or truck, they can get either $250 in petrol vouchers or a free handgun. UK laws forbidding gun ownership aside for the moment, if they were to change, could this be a marketing opportunity for businesses in the [...]
Service’s Sorry State
Posted on 21 June 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: ASDA, BSkyB, BT (British Telecomm), Comcast Cable, CQE (Customer Quality Experience) programme, India, Sky+, telephone call centre, Tesco, The Consumerist
The Consumerist website showed this graphic recently about poor service received by Comcast Cable and telephone subscribers across the USA. It was part of an internally circulated Powerpoint presentation by a call centre manager on their CQE (Customer Quality Experience) programme and the lack of seriousness with which it is taken inside the company culture.
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