C4 gets Friday night blues Some people said that Channel 4's decision to spend millions on the terrestrial rights for The Simpsons was a highly risky gamble that was possibly bordering on the reckless, and judging from the initial decline...

Media Guardian TV ratings: February 25-27 So the Simpsons aren't exactly dragging in the viewers on Friday evening for Channel 4, which makes you wonder if all the cash the station spent, was really worth it?...

ITV and Channel 4 put in bids for Freeview slot On parity alone, Channel 4 ought to be given this spare Freeview slot - made possible courtesy of technical improvements - by default, since ITV already has four channels (two...

US TV boss steps down after gay cartoon row Regardless of whether or not the cartoon was truly suitable for its intended audience, and whether or not Pat Mitchell's departure had anything whatsoever to do with the ensuing row, this...

From today's Grauniad... Channel Five was reprimanded by the Advertising Standards Authority watchdog yesterday for sending out a promotional mailshot that purported to be the case notes of a serial killer obsessed with the recipient. The mailing, sent to 30,000...

Well, it's got to be said that there are few big surprises in the freely available channel data from BARB. Sky Sports 1 raised its rating again this week to 2.6 share, based mainly on two big football matches on...

Heggessey defends BBC One record "Among Ms Heggessey's more controversial moves while at BBC One was her decision to" change the channel idents from the balloon globe to the current Rhythm and Movement style. I wish....

BBC One chief Heggessey to leave If we still had the balloon, we could send her floating off in it....

Well, the Evening Standard yesterday reported that the BBC plans to launch an Free-To-Air sports channel, sometime after 2006. Quoting BBC Controller of Sport Peter Salmon, they speculate that the channel would be used to promote minority sports. By lunchtime...

Well, as per last week, Sky One has been beaten by both ITV2 and Sky Sports 1. However this time, the ratings show that whilst ITV2 was helped by American Idol getting just over 1 million, Sky Sports 1 was...

The announcement has been made of all the nominees in the various categories of the National Hospital Radio Awards, which will be presented at the HBA Spring Conference in Belfast on April 2nd 2005. The UK Radio website has full...

Finally, OFCOM have actually published a proposed timetable for the region-by-region switch off of Analogue Terrestrial Television (ATT). The proposed dates for switch off are, in switchover order... 2008: Border, Westcountry, HTV Wales 2009: Granada HTV West, Grampian, Scottish 2010:...

BBC News Wales reports that OFCOM is considering three options for the future of Welsh fourth channel Sianel Pedwar Cymru (S4C). The options are, maintaining the status quo, bringing S4C under the wing of the BBC, or keeping the authority...

Channel 4 not to get instant cash, rules Ofcom To summarise, there's nothing revolutionary or unexpected about Ofcom's latest proposals. Channel 4 is currently in no financial crisis so alternative forms of funding will have to wait (though as usual...

Heggessey in frame for Talkback job The position of BBC One controller has always been a very high profile job that carries both prestige and a huge element of responsibility, since to many viewers BBC One IS the BBC and...

Warming to a shotgun wedding As well as recent cost savings, ITV plc is now benefiting from the combined ad income from the merged English and Welsh ITV franchises, enabling it to spend more money on programming. But whether it...

Well, having read the latest BARB ratings, freely published on BARB website, some things immediately stand out. First of all, Sky One is most definitely in trouble. For the second week in a row, it only achieves a 1.9 share,...

CBC is making their pitch to the Canadian Government in Ottawa for additional funding to improve regional television and local radio. This is the problem with being funded directly by a government, any government. Direct funding of a TV station...

Sound TV have finally officially announced a launch date for the start of their channel. The channel will launch at 7pm on Saturday 26th February. Having seen the launch schedule for the first couple of days, I can't say I'm...

Media Guardian: ITV News hits ratings low Dear Ofcom As you have no doubt seen, despite our best efforts, the number of people viewing our flagship late night bulletin have been slowly and steadily decreasing. We are increasingly becoming concerned...

BBC News: Women in News or 'News Tarts'? About the only reason for this article sitting on the Newsnight 25 website is that it's written by a Newsnight reporter, but non-the-less, Martha Kearney's piece on the role women have played...

Freeview customers next target for Sky James Murdoch is right in one sense when he says that Freeview is 'no threat' to SkyDigital, since Freeview is currently being marketed as a basic system whereas SkyDigital has the potential to offer...

E4 'will be free to air by end of year' It was perhaps inevitable that E4 would go free-to-air at some point, since Channel 4 has not only lost the rights to show Joey (the Friends spin-off) but there is...

Hi, and welcome to February's new additions to EMC. Some philosophical content this month, including a look at modern British television that would no doubt make Adam Smith proud – privatise, damn your eyes, damn your eyes; why the Television...