Digital Spy: Axed 'Grandstand' scoops RTS award The BBC in their folly wisdom may have decided to axe Grandstand for running too long being old-fashioned, but at least the RTS judges recognised that Grandstand was a "national institution" and a...

Ofcom makes landmark ruling over Big Brother Channel 4 review document (PDF) Ofcom Content Sanctions Committee report (PDF) So Ofcom managed to publish their verdict in time before the next series of Big Brother (which starts next week), and the...

'Brown may sell off Channel 4' It may be true that privatising Channel 4 would now have far less an effect on British broadcasting compared to what would have been the case if it was privatised ten or more years...

BBC high definition television channel Public Value Test (PDF) Contained within this PDF document are some interesting facts about the planned future of the BBC's HD TV service, and in particular relating to the BBC's short term plans to provide...

Sky News: Mylene Fronts Sky's Klass New Test Card Sky belatedly jumps on the "Test Cards are great even though they are so retro" bandwagon in this latest attempt to get the rest of us to sign up for Sky...

Five nabs Neighbours. To follow up on what my esteemed colleague Andrew Bowden posted earlier, it looks like it will be an aussie double bill of soaps, as for the first time ever on British Television, Home and Away &...

BBC pulls out of Neighbours fight And the hot story on Ramsey Street this week is that the BBC has withdrawn from the bidding for the programme, after contract renewal would have left it paying over three times the current...

Xfm stations axe daytime DJs What do you call a radio station without presenters? Well, Xfm it looks like. The network of alternative music playing radio stations has today announced its ditching the DJ during the daytime - 10am through...

I haven't been following the ratings too much recently, but I do notice in the latest publicly available figures on the BARB website, some very interesting stats. It is noticeable that Sky One has lost a lot of ground and...

Ofcom finds 'stark' future for kids' TV Ofcom's findings that children's television has tripled in five years since 2002 is not that surprising, given the BBC launched two digital spin-off channels, and ITV launched CITV. However the story that the...

thinkbox Well, here's a blast from the past about which I am ambivalent. According to the about us page, thinkbox is "the television marketing body for the main UK commercial broadcasters - Channel 4, Five, GMTV, ITV, Sky media, Turner...

Situation critical The development of the iPlayer has been such a long and drawn-out affair that you can't help but think that there have been some fundamental failures in the project's management or its software development. (Or maybe it was...

And now, finally, we know when Tony Blair will leave Number Ten. As the media - and Blair himself - continue to be concerned with what his legacy will be, our regular correspondent Russ J Graham considers what future historians...

So, the recent trend for news channels to broadcast on the net continues. The most recent addition is BBC News 24, which can now be watched live on the net. My only concern is that the bandwidth stream being allocated...

Regular readers of EMC MediaBlog will recall that the BBC decided to spin off BBC Broadcast, its broadcast arm, as a self-contained company. Now called Red Bee Media, the former BBC Broadcast handles playout for BBC television as well as...