now on bbc news, the media show. a warning this programme contains flashing images. hello and welcome to this week s edition of the media show. in a minute we would talk about spotify, the was most popular music streaming platform, spending almost $1 billion on podcasting as well. but also the different developments coming out of spotify at the moment and its ceo is saying perhaps they got carried away with new investments. we will try to unpack what is going on and what it means for making money off music streaming and podcast. first of all, would talk about the fallout from a new bbc documentary about the indian prime minister, narendra modi. it is on iplayer at the moment and it explores tensions between narendra modi and the indian was minority and specifically look for claims around his role in the 2002 riots in which over 1000 people died. the programme was not broadcast in india but it has caused a few were all there. first of all, let s watch a short clip from the doc
has died in hospital at the age of seventy nine. you re watching bbc news. now it s time for the media show. a warning this programme contains flashing images. hello, and welcome to this week s edition of the media show. now in a minute, we re going to talk about spotify. it s the world s most popular music streaming platform. it spent close to $1 billion on podcasting, too, but there are all sorts of different developments coming out of spotify at the moment. and its ceo has said that perhaps they got carried away with new investments. we ll try and unpack what s going on and work out what that means for making money off music streaming and off podcasts, too. first of all, though, we re going to talk about the fallout from a new bbc documentary about india s prime minister, narendra modi. it s on iplayer at the moment, and it explores tensions between mr modi and india s muslim minority. it also specifically looks at claims around his role in the 2002 gujarat riots, in whi
health leaders in england, wales and northern ireland are warning that there will be a struggle to clear backlogs and improve emergency care unless industrial action by thousands of staff is brought to an end. the government has urged unions to consider the impact of industrial action on treatment backlogs. you re watching bbc news. now, it s time for the media show. a warning, this programme contains flashing images. hello, and welcome to this week s edition of the media show. now in a minute, we re going to talk about spotify. it s the world s most popular music streaming platform. it spent close to a billion dollars on podcasting, too, but there are all sorts of different developments coming out of spotify at the moment. and its ceo has said that perhaps they got carried away with new investments. we ll try and unpack what s going on and work out what that means for making money off music streaming and off podcast, too. first of all, though, we re going to talk about the
at ten o clock, reeta chakrabarti will be here with a full roundup of the days news. first, the media show and a warning this programme contains flashing images. hello and welcome to this week s edition of the media show. now in a minute, we re going to talk about spotify. it s the world s most popular music streaming platform. it spent close to a billion dollars on podcasting, too, but there are all sorts of different developments coming out of spotify at the moment. and its ceo has said that perhaps they got carried away with new investments. we ll try and unpack what s going on and work out what that means for making money off music streaming and off podcast, too. first of all, though, we re going to talk about the fallout from a new bbc documentary about india s prime minister narendra modi. it s on iplayer at the moment, and it explores tensions between mr modi and india s muslim minority. it also specifically looks at claims around his role in the 2002 gujarat riots,
and it has a complicated rights deal with music studios, record labels, artists that has basically bled into its podcast offering, and that they try to use podcast as maybe a way of simplifying that difficult rights relationship. but it hasn t worked. and spotify needs to prove that it s going to be a profitable company in the next few years. otherwise, its investors are going to start to ask a lot, lot more and not more interrogatory questions. so those issues are specific to spotify. arielle, more broadly on podcasts, presumably you look across the us market and see lots of podcasts which are managing to well, notjust make ends meet but make money. yes, there is a lot of money happening for independent creators as well as larger publications. and the reason that podcasters are able to do that is because you ll hear this time and time again. podcasting is an intimate medium. it is a trope that, you know, gets talked about all the time, but it is an opportunity for people to really get