This week has seen Danny Cohen appointed as new BBC Director General Tony Hall's Director of Television, following on from the appointment of James Harding as Head of BBC News. With Cohen's rise to a place in the senior management team of the BBC almost as meteoric as his rise to prominence among senior television executives already.

Merely days into his new job as BBC Director-General, Tony Hall gets confronted with a "mini-crisis" which would arguably have been less toxic if there hadn't been that recent spot of bother involving Newsnight, Jimmy Savile and the previous incumbent...

Here's a question to puzzle over. If Lord Patten didn't think much of ex-BBC Director-General Mark Thompson having "more senior leaders than China", why didn't he force Thompson to justify his position and make relevant changes to the BBC's management...

There can only be a few people who can be counted as true television personalities, in front of the camera are the presenters and behind them are the production staff. Very rarely there are people who do both at the same time such as Jack Hargreaves from Southern Television and Brian Connell from Anglia, one such of these unique breed died on Sunday.

In the past few weeks has seen 'Splash' appear on screens throughout the land, opinion itself has be divided in the public domain and on social media. From it being loveable harmless entertainment to the worst thing that television has...

All change for ITV in 2013. Is it all worth it?

Those we have loved and lost in 2012

Last Friday's edition of Newsnight must rank as one of the most surreal programmes ever broadcast by the BBC, namely Newsnight questioning the BBC about its own future after another mishap made by, erm, Newsnight. And it was this that...

Danny Baker appears to be one of those presenters you either love or hate with a passion, but either way he's difficult to ignore altogether as a permanent fixture of the London airwaves for many years. But today all of...

Other places to find Transdiffusion goodies if "Strictly" leaves you cold

So, farewell then Ceefax...

From this... To this... The final appearance of Pages From Ceefax on BBC Two took place this morning ahead of the final analogue television transmission switch off, and somewhat appropriately tomorrow marks the 40th anniversary of a news report that...

I love the 1980s. If you agree, you were born between 1970 and 1978, at a guess.

Now that the BBC's Mark Thompson is finally heading out the door in the direction of the New York Times, he has a few choice words for his successor as a parting gift that warns of further trouble to come...

Sky's new channel

The BBC World Service's main studios fall silent for the first time since 1940.

How posting to YouTube turned into a quagmire of uncertainty thanks to cwilliams1976

It's certainly not unusual for the BBC to be the subject of criticism when it comes to the coverage of any royal event apart from the most straightforward occasions. Getting the tone exactly right is an absolute nightmare and you...

Nationwide joins the duck on the skateboard of history

Remember a few years ago when ITV plc decided that 17 regional news programmes was unsustainable and that to make commercial sense they should only have nine in England and Wales? Well that was in 2009. Now it's 2012 and it seems ITV have had a change of heart.