Times Online: Letters to the Editor A letter from someone who claims to have never watched a commercial TV channel in his/her life. I used to have standards like that too. But then I was 9 at the time....

MediaGuardian: Channel 4 in talks with Five over merger It was inevitable. The overly commercial state of the current Channel 4 has meant that someone had to think about it at some point. The surprise is that it's not the...

Mass Observation through the years Typically, I find my evening taken up with researching for future Transdiffusion projects. Tonight, it's the turn of Sean Day-Lewis's (ed) 1989 book "One Day In The Life Of Television" for the BFI (ISBN 0-246-13424-0)....

BBC Charter Review - Your BBC, Your Say It has not received a vast amount of attention, but the fact is that not only is BBC Charter Review taking place, you can also take part in it, by making your...

MediaGuardian: ITV axes up to 400 jobs as Nottingham studio closes Nottingham studios to close. Central News East to move to Birmingham. 400 jobs to go. Will the last person working in ITV plc outside London, please turn out...

MPs back campaign to save ITV Nottingham Unfortunately I feel that the MP's involved in trying to persuade ITV plc to back down from doing this might as well throw in the towel. Indeed in the not too distant future...

Beyond the Charter - The BBC after 2006 "Far-reaching change is needed to enable the BBC to achieve its full potential," begins the press release announcing the publication of "Beyond The Charter", a report on the BBC by the Broadcasting...

BBC sunk in Boat Race row This highlights the anomaly that faces a public service broadcaster such as the BBC when faced with sporting events that are determined to become more sponsored and commercial as ever (and you thought that...

Chris Stacey on being unemployed from the media industry at 44. One can't but feel sympathy for people like Chris Stacey. Bitten by the media bug, he wants to do nothing else by work in the dark arts that are...

MediaGuardian: BBC Manchester plans revealed Well done to the Media Guardian's headline writers. In an act of genius they have not only provided a completely inaccurate headline (nothing has actually been revealed), but the actual story reveals that the plans...

MediaGuardian: Freeview in almost 3m homes It seems like there's one of these stories every couple of weeks, so here's another one then. By the end of December 2003, 2,996,700 homes had Freeview (digital terrestrial television). By now, it's probably...

Viewers shun Vaughan debut This is another somewhat predictable outcome based solely on overnight viewing figures (something BBC Two controller Jane Root is wisely trying to steer clear of, but her channel is somewhat sheltered from having to prove a...

Leaving aside for the moment the possibility that recently-leaked government documents might have oozed out deliberately to minimise their chances of ever coming to pass, the whole idea of breaking up the BBC along regional lines does not seem to...

So, the Sunday Times reports that the BBC could be broken up into 4 seperate broadcasters for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, according to a leaked government document. Now, before everybody jumps up and says, oh it's only another...

Beware. If you're spell checking a blog entry, remember to pay attention as it will try to convert "MediaGuardian" to "mediocrities"......

Media Guardian: Millions could face BBC TV switch-off in 2007 We all know it. Some may deny it. Some may stick their fingers in their ears and go "lar-lar-lar-lar-I can't hear you!" but it's going to happen. No matter how...

MediaGuardian: 'What you'll see in my shed' When it comes to defending BBC Three against the bashers, you don't often find its stars saying much, but todays Media Guardian sees Johnny Vaughan doing just that. Of course it's all tied...

Shropshire Star confused 'news' report Leave it to dire local news sheets to miss a point with such accuracy (can you hear the true story whistling as it passes their journalist's ears?) Many insults, most of them justified, are hurled...

ITV Nottingham to close? We always knew ITV would start cutting costs. We also knew that after Crossroads ended, Nottingham would have a vastly reduced workload. ITV have put two and two together, and it seems Nottingham might be set...

MediaGuardian: Watchdog raps Channel 4 and Top of the Pops It seems that new media regulator Ofcom already has its work cut out with TV channels either breaking rules through the quest of trying to attract viewers or through...

Top Up TV website Yes the rumours really are true. Someone is actually bonkers enough to try and do pay-TV on digital terrestrial television. In a few months time you can have your Freeview, and then top it up. So...

It's 80 years of the BBC Radio pips!...

News 24 does the Job Well, it seems that the News 24 rebrand has done some good - for two out of the last four weeks it has had greater viewing figures than Sky News. I hope that this...

Ouch! Unpleasant to listen to the unpleasant Lord Birt, unlamented late BBC DG, laying into the Corporation in the Lords this afternoon. When Dyke departed the other day, people cheered him and shook his hand; when Birt left some years...

Guardian: Government gives strong signal on digital TV You know that analogue-switch off is in trouble when someone thinks that the most important thing to do is hire Lambie Nairn to design a brand identity for the process......

Pay TV for Freeview Ignoring the fact we've seen this story ages ago on DigitalSpy (but two cheers for the Grauniad for being second with the news... as usual) would anyone with any knowledge of the technicalities of terrestrial digital...

Er, why?...

Brand Republic: UKTV to launch two new channels to replace Horizons As part of an article on the splitting of UK Horizons into two, it's also revealed that the whole UKTV network is to be re-branded with the UK...

Transdiffusion affiliate, the Tyne Tees Logo Page has just had an update. New additions include articles on Trident Television, Channel 3 North East, the City Road studios, the first night schedule, Joblink, and the weather in 2002! And then there...

Gone are Granada plc and Carlton Communications plc. No more do they exist. ITV is all ITV plc now. Except for viewers in Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Channel Islands. But they don't matter. So I thought I should mark...

ITV pull the surprise on us and actually launched the new look ITV News at 5.30am in the morning. The ITV Morning News on ITV1 and the ITV News Channel was the first programme to use the new look. Some...