Dawn's darkest hour For many years it was fashionable for media ventures to be small outfits that are effectively run by one or two people, and they inevitably concentrated on one thing, namely television production. The demise of various ITV...

The BBC's Panorama Page Tonight's Panorama on BBC One investigated the whole world of television quizzes and competitions that employ the use of premium rate phone lines, and whilst the programmes implicated may not have been a huge surprise to...

'Impossible' phone-ins cut off Given the recent spate of premium rate phone-in quiz scandals, it was inevitable that Ofcom would have to bow to increasing pressure and actively enforce a new set of rules controlling the very nature of competitions...

I would call myself something of a news junkie. I like to tune in to various news sources to get different perspectives on the news. This is a way of really getting a purer, more factual perspective on the news....

Freeview ascent puts it above Sky in digital race Quote of the day so far: "More than 500,000 VCRs were sold last Christmas, even though they will not work properly after the switchover, which begins in the Borders region next...

Boost for live TV web streaming Skinkers website The only issue that seems to be currently preventing the broadcast of live video streams from major broadcasters is the issue of internet bandwidth, namely that it's bad enough when a large...

Official: BBC is too upmarket Every so often, the BBC goes through the ritual of reassessing itself as to whether its output is still appropriate for the majority of licence fee-payers, and of course it should do this periodically otherwise...