MediaGuardian: Dyke mooted as new ITV boss Much as I dislike the prospect of a pseudo-single ITV, I have to grudgingly admit that the combination of Greg Dyke and ITV might theoretically help to make the channel watchable again. And...

Andrew Gilligan, who was BBC Radio 4's Today programme's Defence & Diplomatic Correspondent has resigned from the BBC with immediate effect....

Can I just wonder why Gilligan has not yet gone?...

Well, I was very sorry, and to a certain extent shocked about the news Greg Dyke had resigned. He has done so much for the BBC, and UK broadcasting in general, and he really deserved to stay. Of course, he...

BBC director general Dyke stands down By standing down at this point, Greg Dyke hopes that a line can be finally drawn under the whole Hutton Report affair; in the short term this may be wishful thinking, but it was...

Reuters 'short' on the resignation of Gavyn Davies The main news story here is not that Gavyn Davies has resigned, but that the Chairmanship of the BBC is in the gift of the Prime Minister. Mr Blair now has two...

BBC News: Hutton Reporters' Log This interesting page has comments from the vast range of reporters who have been covering the Hutton Inquiry for the BBC. It's interesting in that it shows just how many people the BBC needs to...

BBC News 24 is reporting that Gavyn Davies will tender his resignation as Chairman of the BBC to the board of Governors when they begin their informal meeting later tonight. More on this story as we get it....

Well, it is interesting to hear the final report from Lord Hutton. I doubt I will ever plough through all 300-odd pages of it, but, I have been disappointed. To be honest I didn't think the BBC would get criticised...

Well, now that the Hutton Report has been published, let us take a moment to put the report into its proper perspective. The media continues to accuse the BBC of broadcasting a false report. Let us get this in perspective,...

BBC News Online - Nick Higham on Hutton Not wishing to prejudice the Hutton report, but this article is a must read. Whatever side of the political spectrum you are on (for the record: socialist, ex-Labour as of the attack...

MediaGuardian: BBC to be reined in, says Jowell's adviser MediaGuardian: Watchdog eases burden of ITV licence Impressive. On the same day, the MediaGuardian is gleefully reporting an opinion that the BBC should have ITV-style programme quotas but barely bats an...

Media Grauniad story The Grauniad's well-known and much, much regretted rabid anti-BBC stance (made worse because it is evidently all from a biased view that the BBC is a 'competitor' to GMG's media operations) makes the rest of the world...

Puff-piece pretending to be news 'ITV mulls soap spin-offs' So, ITV1 isn't doing too well. We need a solution, and fast. I know! More crappy soap operas! They're not at all mostly the problem with the doomed channel in any...

MediaGuardian: War of the news walls I'm going to stake my reputation on the line. Not that I have a very big one, but I'm hoping to gain one from this. In an interview with the Media Guardian, ITV News...

News at Ten Thirty "Mr Mannion also told Media Guardian he wants the ITV News Channel to beat BBC News 24's ratings within a year." Of course. Is this while BBC News 24 is still on the air? Honestly, if...

Independent: Lights go out for good at the BBC's Pebble Mill studios Bye bye Pebble Mill....

MediaGuardian: Sky lifts lid on multichannel TV habits So Sky is hoping to get 20,000 subscribers to see how they use their service so that they can target their users better (and probably help get more cash out of their...

BBC News: ITN newsreader Suchet to retire Quite how John Suchet has managed to remain a lot lower key than Trevor MacDonald when he has a much better onscreen personality, I just don't know......

BBC News: Actors call for more credit on TV Equity are complaining about the rushing of credits and their presentation in a split screen environment. It's a tricky issue. The BBC claims on one hand that channel surfing increases by...

No more Kilroy!...

Slow start on FX opening night Once upon a time a launch of a new TV channel was a major national event, but these days with numerous digital channels available even a so-called 'major new entertainment channel' can launch and...

Media Week: Green light for launch of ITV?s third channel Apparantly ITV are developing ITV3, which will show the amazing combination of films and lifestyle programming, as well as providing a chance to develop new programmes for ITV1. It's all...

Granada green lights ITV merger Even though you know it's going to happen, it still has a profound impact when it finally takes place....

BBC to broadcast silent orchestra My latest artwork is 4'34" long and is also completely silent, save for a distant sound of someone giggling whilst rolling about on a pile of money. I'll be pleased to get a cheque from...

ITV prepares for News at Ten shift It's been muttered about for months, but we're edging closer and closer to News at Ten being put out of its elongated misery. Like the rest of ITV, this once great institution has...

Soaps and sports are public service TV, say viewers The "opinion formers", those that control our media or those with vested interests elsewhere have long told us what is public service broadcasting. The arts. Pompous political shows. Heavyweight documentaries. Anything...

Audience with no one: 55 days on TV According to this article, "More than 55 days' worth of programmes on the BBC's digital channels last year were watched by so few viewers that they scored zero on the official ratings...

A new channel for people with no lives A rousing two cheers for Murdoch's latest venture - FX-TV, a 'lad's channel' which will launch all too soon with a mixture of celebrity gossip, tits, bums and puerile nonsense pretending...

Arts host says BBC should share licence fee with any pretentious idiot who would like some free money for tat. Of all people, Melvyn Bragg should know better. You'd think. But anyone who believes that television would improve if the...

BBC pulls Kilroy-Silk show after anti-Arab comments I am in two minds about whether Kilroy should be axed for his article. I am not aware of the specific issues he tackles on his morning programme, but I would assume that...

ITV plans classic soap spin-off Rearrange these words into a meaningful sentence: totally lost the ITV plot has. It's a shame that supporters of a "single" ITV have to learn they're wrong the hard way......

Bragg: BBC4 a 'fig leaf' for arts coverage Lord Melvyn Bragg's comments yesterday are interesting to see. I don't think they are right. Yes, BBC 4 is certainly a place where the arts programming is now placed rather than BBC...

I'd sooner eat worms....

Scotsman.com report bizarrely celebrating less political regionalism in the kingdom Perhaps, after all, we can now see how come regionalism, that noble goal of broadcasting in this country since 1922, has gone quietly unto the dark. Here, The Scotsman -...

allAfrica.com on Zambian censorship of the BBC World Service's 'Network Africa'. I'd imagine that corruption, a chained press speaking with one voice, and oppression of those with views other than those that the Government wishes them to have, would be...

Andy Hamilton on BBC One comedy scheduling Although Andy Hamilton may have a personal axe to grind over the mistreatment of his 'baby', it is true that recently the BBC seems to have adopted the same last minute aggressive rescheduling...

Financial Times report on the blandname 'ITV' It seems, although it's barely believeable, that the brandname 'ITV' has monetary value. The FT reports, from that curiously-isolated high-money perspective that it has, that the 3 companies still outside of the cruddy...

Any 'blog like this can become a place to whinge about the ills of the world. Indeed, I do a lot of that here about television (only as a public service, in order to save you the bother, of course)....

BBC News report Former BBC-1 continuity announcer Michael Aspel is suffering from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, a cancer of the immune system. The cancer is under control through chemotherapy and other treatments and is not believed to be life-threatening. Get well soon,...

A new year and it's straight into our latest update! In this edition of Transdiffusion News: Radio One revolutions, did you get the Pure Evoke II for Christmas? London News Network closes, Lew Grade in the 1950s, BBC infrastructure, fall...

Tawdry but gramatically interesting piece from the Daily Record about Hogmany television. The verdict: BBC-1 won but were awful. SMG [don't click this link - it'll play music at you] lost and were unremarkable. But SMG gets the last laugh...

Hands up if you'd noticed the ITC had gone? Thought not. But hang on... According to the redirect page: "The ITC has ceased to exist from 18 December 2003... Ofcom is the new communications sector regulator and will have wide-ranging...

It's not often that the free newspaper Metro gets mentioned in this publication, but I feel the need to make my first post of 2004 to MediaBlog, a slightly pointless one. In a 60 second interview with radio presenter Lauren...

Media Guardian piece on C4 This news may be two days old but I only spotted it this morning - now why isn't this surprising when Channel 4 is essentially showing the same types of programming as other channels? When...

Does anyone give a stuff about sound quality?