Media Notes

BBC Dir of London 2012 Roger Mosey said that the net "could screen some of the 2012 London Olympic games in 3D." Mosey said that the corporation was "looking at a number of new technologies to improve the spectacle for viewers." Mosey: "We could, and I believe should, capture some of the games in 3D. ... It would be a shame not to have any images of London that were part of an experiment with what will be one of the next big waves of change. The Olympic stadium may only exist in its full 80,000+ capacity for a relatively short period. Not to have that at all in 3D would be, at the very least, a major gap in the archive" (GUARDIAN.co.uk, 9/10).

MacLean Angered During Radio Interview Thursday

HEAD-TO-HEAD: The GLOBE & MAIL's Bruce Dowbiggin wrote the "surprising news" that former Blue Jackets President & GM Doug MacLean was joining forces with RIM co-CEO Jim Balsillie, "whom he had roundly criticized the past year, prompted an acrimonious radio interview between MacLean and radio host Bob McCown" on The Fan 590-AM Thursday. After "deliberately calling the veteran radio host 'MacGowan' during the interview, a pugnacious MacLean accused McCown of backstabbing him." Whatever "civility evaporated when McCown suggested a lot of people had lost respect for MacLean after flip-flopping." MacLean: "For you to make a comment on that, you're way out of line, Bud. ... What you did is you took two hours of pot shots at me so you drive your ratings and get me on the last 10 minutes so you got a big full house" (GLOBESPORTS.com, 9/10).

PEOPLE'S CHOICE: In Toronto, Chris Young notes the Personal People Meter (PPM), which measures audience size, is a "pager-sized device that travels with the person measuring their viewing habits." BBM Canada indicated that 9,000 PPMs across the country "began passively recording viewership on Aug. 31, via an inaudible electronic signature embedded in TV and radio broadcasts." Early PPM numbers "show increases in general, especially among young viewers" (TORONTO STAR, 9/11).