It's interesting that my colleague mentions the competition between OneWord and BBC (Radio) 7. I've discovered that when I listen to the radio, I'm listening more and more to BBC 7 (well, in fact I quite often listen to it...

BBC "too commercial", say radio rivals [Guardian] The world of commercial operation is fascinating. They exist because of the belief that competition is a good thing; that competing services mean better services; that money can be made by being...

Digital terrestrial for Ireland [IOL] The Republic of Ireland becomes the latest European country to announce a digital terrestrial platform, with the responsible minister calling for tenders for the technical side of the operation. Like most European countries, and unlike...

Broadcasters Voice Their Ideas on Future BBC [The Scotsman] What has politics come to? Edward Heath once called television a plant that was continually being plucked out of the ground to see how its roots were doing. Nothing has changed....

ITV wins reduced licence fees [RTE] Twelve years after the Conservatives privatised ITV, and switched from selecting contractors by programme plans to selecting contractors by how rich they were, a little bit of that nonsense has finally been unpicked. The...

MPs seek to block BBC free downloads The All-Party Internet Group apparently wants to stop the BBC making its archives available on-line for nothing. They're concerned that it could miss out on a valuable source of revenue if the Corporation...

BBC: Cult closes 15 July Go and enjoy their testcards section whilst you still can....

Clampdown on 'easy' TV competitions Channel 4's Neil Pepin quite rightly states that this ruling is very likely to have a major impact on broadcasters that rely heavily on premium phone line revenue which must account for many of the...

BBC Broadcast sold off for £166m (BBC News) To be honest, I hadn't even realised this was happening - a lot different to the sell off of BBC Technology that had so much media attention. But talk about sneaking the...

ITV50 website on "The Story of ITV" Well, who won? From tonight's "Story of ITV", you get the only possible answer: Granada. You see, there were several companies, back in the old days. Associated Rediffusion in London: they were there...

BBC News is reporting the death of Channel 4 and Yorkshire Television presenter Richard Whitely, who was nicknamed "Twice Nightly" for regularly appearing on both Countdown and Calendar on the same day. He was 61. Legend is a word that...

Terrestrial TV to seek salvation in reality formats ITV is already heavily reliant on reality TV and drama, since it is no longer subjected to the regulation that used to tightly control its output and these forms of entertainment are...

'Ridiculous' ad rules threaten ITV, Ofcom warned The mention of product placement reminds me of a promotional clip for Ofcom's predecessor the Independent Television Commission, where a clip of a mock Australian soap finishes with someone placing a tin of...

We have a new leader in the BARB Multichannel Stakes. Originally, it was Sky One. Then ITV2 took over the mantle. Now, the new king of the multichannel empire is E4. It scored a 2.6 share this week, which is...

It seems that the concept of radio by satellite is very much here to stay, and even the BBC is onboard with the concept. The BBC World Service is already part of WorldSpace Satellite Radio, which broadcasts to Europe, Africa...

Media Guardian: Who's in the frame for Robinson's job? "It's astonishing that the BBC could find no one amongst its vast army of journalists deemed good enough to be political editor and have poached back someone they failed to spot...

Media Guardian: Film and football spearhead Sky broadband launch Obviously the cablecos didn't move fast enough - Sky's now on the video on demand trail and lets face it, so far there hasn't been a single battle that the cablecos...

Watchdog attacks BBC's commercial arm If anyone can clearly explain the phrase "commercially funded innovation on media markets" to me, as well as pointing out recent real world examples of this phrase provided by both ITV plc and BSkyB together...

Media Week: Telewest and NTL expand reach of on-demand TV When it comes to providing video-on-demand TV, there are two companies perfectly placed to provide it - NTL and Telewest. With their huge, and expensive cable network covering 15m or...

Ofcom's Digital Television Update: 2005, Quarter 1 Ofcom's latest update on digital penetration puts the UK at around 62% digital, up 2.5% on the end of 2004. Delving further into the stats also shows that the growth rates for pay-TV...

Emmerdale props up flagging ITV schedule If it wasn't for the soaps and drama which are produced to a reasonably high standard, ITV would have probably sunk without trace by now. That is the stark fact that seems to elude...

Whiteley set to miss Countdown [BBC News] Few people under the age of 60 actually like Richard Whiteley as a presenter. Too easily mocked, too easily getting on your nerves. His past life as a Calendar presenter, famous ferret-biting incident...

It's interesting how digital terrestrial television – the subject of our lead article this month – has taken off after being such a flop when it started. I was out of the country at the time, but from what I...