Ordinary Gweilo
It's not big and it's not clever, it's just a Brit in Hong Kong writiing (mainly) about Hong Kong
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Category: Media
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Well, the EPL season has started, and we finally get to discover what joys Cable TV have in store for us. First impressions are reasonably favourable, all things considered. It seems that they will be showing 7 of the 10 games from each weekend’s fixtures live (including two simultaneously as ESPN/Star Sports did), and then…
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I was amused when Liam Fitzpatrick managed to fill a couple of pages of Spike magazine with the gripping story of his long association with ‘Bottoms Up’ in TST and the terribly sad news that they have closed the place down. Incredibly, he managed to recycle this material for a special double issue of Time…
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Business Week recently had an article about football club finances (Can Football Be Saved?). Interesting subject, but it hardly inspires confidence when they talk about the British Premier League and describe the UEFA Champions League as a post-season tournament.
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Spike actually had an exclusive this week, with a story claiming that a well-known local businessman was responsible for the threats that prompted Albert Cheng King-hon and Raymond Wong Yuk-man to quit their radio shows. They didn’t name the businessman, but you might get a clue from Hemlock‘s take on the story. The unfortunate thing…
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I was going to write a lot more about Tony Blackburn and Cliff Richard, but thankfully I decided not to bother. My theme was going to be the way that both of them have managed to be deeply unfashionable and yet very successful over the last 40 years or so. Craig Brown in the Daily…
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From another era (and another country)… A bizarre story from The Guardian: Tony Blackburn has been suspended from his show on Classic Gold for repeatedly playing Cliff Richard records when he was told not to do so. Seems to me that anyone who listens to Tony Blackburn deserves everything they get. A DJ who was…
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You may have read in Tuesday’s SCMP (or here) that Spike magazine is having some financial problems. They are looking for additional financing, and may suspend publication if none is forthcoming. Based upon the very limited amount of display advertising they currently have, and the apparent failure of their attempt to attract classified ads, it’s…
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Not such a good sporting weekend if you are English. Beating New Zealand in a rather meaningless cricket test match isn’t much consolation after a heavy defeat to the same nation at rugby and a very cruel end to the England vs. France game in Euro 2004. I didn’t stay up and watch the game…
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Henry rightly pointed out that Cable TV cunningly give you free channels when they replace (or first install) your cable box and then they take them away again almost immediately, hoping that you will be tempted to pay them large amounts of money in order to watch Sri Lanka beating a park team from Zimbabwe.…
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I know I’ll get into trouble for writing this, but I don’t think I really care. I periodically check Hong Kong’s most boring website to see whether they have managed to write anything even mildly interesting (no), and whether they have got over their obsession with blogging (apparently they haven’t). I couldn’t believe my eyes…
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