BBC licence fee could cost £1bn and 9,000 jobs, claims report How commercial stations could follow TV's lead The radio industry suffers a downturn at the hands of both itself and the rising popularity of MP3 players such as the...

While reading a piece on how the BBC intends to set aside £100m for UK films over the next ten years (excellent news!) ? assuming a positive outcome regarding the licence fee, of course ? I was prompted to wonder...

BBC News: US public TV shows 'facing cuts' The US's PBS network isn't exactly the most well funded public service broadcaster in the world, yet despite that, it's childrens programming has crept across the globe - and not just Sesame...

Media Guardian: FilmFour relaunches as free-to-air Some good news for film and Freeview fans as Channel 4 officially announce that FilmFour is to go free. However its stable-mate, FilmFour Weekly will close. FilmFour was Channel 4's last bastion of pay-TV,...

Media Guardian: US rebels call for ITV to be broken up Calls from investors to break up companies to "release value" happen all the time in the world of the public limited company. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes...

TV bedfellows upset teachers Digital Spy: In Full: New Sky EPG Lineup Presumably Sky feels that addicts of soft porn and chatlines could do with a touch of educational enlightenment, given the strange channel placing of Teachers' TV in the...

How Murdoch plans to win friends and influence people Why is BSkyB currently indulging in a frenzied attempt to brainwash MP's into the virtues of the "Sky way"? The most likely answer is that it's trying to undermine the BBC...

With all this kerfuffle about Radio 4's UK Theme, has anyone noticed that 'light music' is disappearing from radio and television? No sooner has BBC Four televised a (rather good) documentary on "Music for Everyone" than it's suddenly Music for...