Danielle Demtriou twists the words of a BBC spokesperson in order to create a news story that wasn't there originally. "[The BBC] does not rule them [resignations] in or out", becomes, miraculously, "Hutton a resigning matter, BBC admits". Wow! Could...

Lies, half-truths and utter bollocks about the BBC from an American 'news source'. Least said, soonest mended on this one. But the fact that Google News is drawing on this as a 'source' is disturbing - why, Google, why? If...

This year's Christmas presentation on the terrestrial channels was a mixture of the dull and not-quite-so-dull: BBC One: This year was essentially the same as last Christmas, though the 'children' ident is arguably the best implementation of the current 'music...

An unusually perceptive piece from Nick Higham on BBCi And so it has come to pass. To the surprise of everyone except us 'amateurs' who don't know what we're talking about (apparently): - Scottish Media Group are unhappy with Granada...

BBC licence fee 'criminalises poor' says a known group of idiots in the Financial Times. This just in: a group of known freelance idiots calling themselves the Institute of Public Policy Research have idiotically announced that the licence fee is...

Xmas TV Listings So this is Christmas, and what have you done... to us? EastEnders (soap), Meet the Parents (film, Ben Stiller) Rio Grande (film), Mastermind Celebrity Special (quiz), Porridge follow-up 'documentary' The Grinch (film, Jim Carrey), Coronation Street (soap),...

Media Guardian on the new deal Shock! Horror! BSkyB doesn't have everything its own way! Think what you will about the European Commission, but there are times when it comes in very useful and breaking up monopolies (which the UK...

ITV Winter Lineup Press Release (Word document) Some of the 'highlights' to come this winter on ITV1. There's a programme where Rob Brydon talks over old comedy shows, in the style of a DVD commentary (cheap). And a programme that...

BBCi Charter Review page BBC Charter Review At the top of a webpage there was a large advert-style link entitled "WANTED Your opinions about the future of the BBC. All views welcome. Click here."; normally I don't bother to click...

Department of Health Tender Document (pdf) Department of Education and Skills press release It is the era of niche broadcasting. We already have TV channels for bangra fans, art fans, pub landlords and people who want to buy tasteless tat...

Here's an interesting point. BBC Radio Five Live this morning had a phone in on whether people are better off under Labour. Towards the beginning, one of the invited commentators stated that people who are in work are likely to...

Media Guardian opinion piece BBC Four is one of those channels which you may either avidly watch or alternatively dip into when everything else fails to impress; despite my admiration for the channel I (more often or not) tend to...

MediaGuardian : Overnight Viewing Figures A relaunched News 24 gives the Media Guardian the perfect excuse to print a piece which reads like a blow by blow report of a boxing match between Sky News and the revamped BBC News...

Well, the long-awaited BBC News 24 rebrand has finally been realised, and it is really rather nice. I'll start with the good points. The Studio is very much like the one used with the national news, although the large screens...

BBC-1 BBC-2 Strange that ITV.com don't offer the ability to download their idents, too. Perhaps we wouldn't be interested in 'celebrities' we can't quite put a name to and anonymous shots of our regions to make us feel at home?...

pride-drop.tv Freeview Launch Press Release Following on from the appearence of Price-drop.tv on digital terrestrial television on the 2nd December, lots of people will be talking. Lots of people will moan at the launch of yet another shopping channel on...

Media Guardian report This is an ingenious way of advertising a product on the BBC by Coca-Cola exploiting a loophole via its new deal with the Official UK Charts Company which means that Coca-Cola is guaranteed two mentions on the...

BBC Press Office Audience figures are a tyranny. They tell us nothing of use and blind programme makers to the possibilities of television as an artform. They are derived from a ridiculously small sample, and show only what "the majority"...

BBC News: Japanese viewers get digital TV. NHK Digital Site (in English) It's funny - you always think of the Japanese as being at the forefront of technology but digital terrestrial television (DTT) has only just launched in three cities...