Digital Spy: UTV "significantly outperformed ITV peers" Whilst ITV plc has been preoccupied trying to erase all of its former regional identities to create a sea of blandness in order to supposedly avoid confusing its (assumed to be) half-witted viewers,...

I haven't been able to find any actual press release or web story yet on it, but BBC Radio Five Live are reporting that Tessa Jowell, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, has said that reality TV shows...

Watching Paint Dry Well, UKTV Style seem to have some up with the perfect antidote for Big Brother crazyness (which starts tonight) - Watching Paint Dry. Yep. Someone paints a wall and you watch it dry and vote for your...

Broadcaster gets apology from BBC as history repeats itself Here's a news item which is quite amusing to read since it is obvious that only a junior researcher would make such a fundamental mistake as to plagiarise whole sections of...

Investors tell ITV to ditch Allen for Dyke You can almost feel sorry for Charles Allen at this point; his ITV plc has spent a lot of time and effort trying to placate shareholders by showing more soaps, Pop Idol,...

Channel 4 boss lands BBC top job Well, is this a good or bad thing? Channel 4 seems to be a lot more entertainment oriented than it used to be, and perhaps this is a slight worry. But Mark Thompson...

Thompson named BBC director general Choosing Greg Dyke's long term replacement was never going to be easy, especially under the circumstances of the selection process and the requirements imposed by the forthcoming charter review. Though as with the choice of...

AzerTAj, an example to us all Ok, so the parallels aren't really there: the BBC is a state-owned broadcaster but (thank you thank you thank you) remarkably independently minded. AzerTAj is a state news agency, perhaps the complete opposite of...

Media Guardian: Top Up TV signs up 20,000 viewers Top Up TV may well have signed up 20,000 viewers in its first month. The more interesting question will be... how many will they actually keep?...

Japan's Daily Yomiuri on the BBC's Pronunciation Unit At last count, I had some 1,127 reasons for the continuation of the BBC (and 2 for ITV, but that's a different matter). Thanks to the Yomiuri for adding reason 1,128: the...

Sky boss hits back at Channel 4 If it wasn't obvious before it should be by now; I'm talking about the fact that Sky seems to exist in a parallel universe to the rest of the UK media industry. Indeed...

The production was fine, the live voting via satellite was flawless, and apart from a live link to outside the venue and up until the last few minutes after the victory, where the presenters ad lib-ed for ages, TRT put...

Now isn't that always a brilliant headline to see?...

Keating set to take BBC2 job Well, it has looked likely all along, but Roly Keating is set to take the BBC2 job when Jane Root leaves for Discovery. I'm not sure whether this is good. While I admire Roly's...

Voting fault hits Eurovision heat Deutsche Telekom, owner of the UK's T-Mobile brand, appears, according to the BBC, to have dropped the ball when it came to tabulating the results for the Eurovision Song Contest semi-final on Wednesday night. The...

The Scotsman: Towns to Trial Digital TV Switchover Finally it looks like someone has got off their backside in government and is thinking properly about analogue switch off. The DCMS are apparently looking for sites to pioneer digital-only broadcasting. Towns...

Eurovision Song Contest So last night was the first ever Eurovision Song Contest Semi-final where 22 countries for the first time, competed for 10 places in the main Grand Prix on Saturday night next. Coverage was on BBC Three, not...

BBC's £15m advertising under attack The last few months have been a particularly tough time for the BBC, so any fresh criticism of what the BBC does is likely to reverberate rather more than it would have usually done,...

Digital Spy: 'Enders win was due to 'superior website' First the writer has to admit something. He doesn't watch either Corrie nor EastEnders. Although he did once watch Corrie and saw a bus drive past the end of the street....

Tonight, Sky News launched a new twice-nightly news bulletin for Ireland, called Sky News Ireland. For 30 minutes at 7pm and 10pm each weeknight, the Murdoch empire takes its first footsteps into programming in the Republic (its been taking Sky...

MediaGuardian: ITV buys GMTV stake from SMG It's an era where one company own the entire of ITV in England and Wales (and a small part of Scotland). 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. No separate weekend franchises,...

YouGov's Channel of the Year Online Survey Here's an interesting survey which has been created for the MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival in conjunction with BBC Broadcast. There are four groups of questions in the categories of "Channel Awards" (for...

BBC Online, no wait, BBCi, sorry, bbc.co.uk Good old BBC. Just a couple of years after the all encompassing BBCi branding was introduced to cover Interactive TV and the Website, replacing the existing BBC Online and BBC Text brands, they...

BBC slashes documentary jobs Perhaps too easy to overlook is this story that could potentially have deep and very serious repercussions for the quality of factual programming in the UK; put simply, the BBC has decided to make some redundancies...

BBC News: NTL losses cut by new subscribers Media Guardian: Customer drive boosts NTL hopes Well what do you know? Persuading people to pay for your service apparantly can make you money! Or at least in NTL's case, stop them...

Black Tuesday for ITV as ratings crash Whilst a 'ratings crash' can happen to any channel at any time, it was rather amusing to notice that ITV1's share of the audience fell below 10% during a programme entitled "All New...

Typical MediaGrauniad non-story This story digested in case you're short of time: An advertiser today complained that the BBC wasn't playing fair. They exist and therefore interrupt the stream of fools who the advertiser wants to watch his ads during...