Usually, October is a quietish month when it comes to the world's media. The new Autumn/Fall season programmes have debuted and things tend to quieten down for a bit. But not this time! In global media terms, we truly have...

The latest publically released viewing figures from BARB reveal some interesting facts. The first one to catch my eye, was this... Sky Three is watched by more people than Sky One! It's true. Check the Weekly Reach figures, which shows...

At 6.17pm this evening, I receieved via an RSS feed, a press release from Sky Press Office, to inform me that Sky News had secured exclusive access to air part of Prince's O2 concert from London from 8.30pm til 9pm...

To follow up on my colleague Andrew Bowden earlier post about UKTV G2 being rebranded as Dave, this is not the first time I've come across this particular branding phenomenon. Like a lot of strange ideas, this one comes to...

The Editors - Mark Thompson: Trust and values This is now getting very strange. Ex-Blue Peter producer Richard Marson was suspended then today sacked over a newly-revealed 'deception' that a Blue Peter online poll to name a cat returned the...

UKTV G2 gets unlikely new name: Dave For reasons best known to themselves, UKTV have announced that they're rebranding the clumsily named UKTV G2 to Dave. Yes. Dave. Apparently this was because "everyone knows a bloke called Dave". Everyone except...

This week's publically available ratings throw up some interesting titbits. ABC1, which recently announced it would be closing, had a great week, scoring 0.4 share / 5.2 weekly reach. Almost 2.5 million viewers tuned into the channel at some point...

Ofcom raises iPlayer HD doubts This perversely could be good news for the BBC in one respect. A lack of network bandwidth for high definition downloads and the associated costs in providing this additional bandwidth could strengthen the hand of...

Grade calls for all ITV genre quotas to be axed You can probably tell that Michael Grade is having a really tough time sorting out ITV when he ends up making statements such as "I am not looking for support,...

In a change to schedules published in your TV guide, Sky have started to advertise the fact that they will be showing Rangers' UEFA Champions League match against Stuttgart on Sky One at 7.30pm this Wednesday (19th September 2007). The...

Broadcast reported earlier this week, that ITN will provide the content for Setanta Sports News, the new sports news channel that will launch initially on cable as a replacement for Sky Sports News, which was withdrawn after Sky and Virgin...

The first set of ratings for the new Autumn season have been released by BARB and it makes for interesting reading. Sky One, which was once the top rating satellite/cable/digital channel,is now an also ran with a mere 0.9 share...

BBC News: ITV to merge regional newsrooms The regional structure of ITV was conceived almost by accident, took forty years to fully develop and another ten years to simultaneously amalgamate and decline to its present state of affairs. Tight regulation...

ITV puts content at heart of five-year plan Sensibly, ITV has decided to put "better TV programmes" at the top of the list of things-to-do for the next five years. After all you can spend £10m on flashy internet services...

McCann radio debate slammed The ongoing saga of the disappearance of Madeleine McCann has now developed from just another (admittedly important) news story into full-blown media hysteria over the past few weeks, and is even starting to affect certain parts...

BBC execs criticise calls for channel closures Splitting the BBC up into more defined internal departments has had the side effect of causing executives from each department to fight for their own corner, hence the belated BBC Vision response to...

Five News to ban staged shots Is TV editing misleading? So Channel Five's new news editor, David Kermode, is banning a bunch of traditional interview techniques in a bid to try and restore trust in television news, after recent problems...