BSkyB's Picnic to offer Discovery shows With a deal for content from Discovery Networks now completed, we now know the lineup for Sky's planned Picnic service for digital terrestrial television: Discovery (daytime)/Sky One Disney (daytime)/Sky Movies Sky Sports 1 Sky...

BBC fears for funding in digital future So Ed Richards seems to be determined to make his "public service publisher" idea live on in some form, despite the idea being rejected by government ministers (and even laughed at by some...

Have you got your daily male? Many people seem to be genuinely surprised at the success of the recently rebranded TV channel known as Dave. But how much of this success was due to an imaginative rebrand or was simply...

Channel 4 speech radio launch delayed Whilst television is moving full steam ahead towards the main part of the region-by-region analogue TV transmitter switchoff, digital radio has been encountering more and more setbacks. Recently, Virgin Radio Viva was axed which...

For all those of us wondering (with only passing interest, I might add) who was to take over from Natasha Kaplinsky as the golden girl of BBC News - apparently it's Kate Silverton. So along with presenting the high profile...

It's not unusual for the words Daily Mail and suspect reporting to come up, although usually it has more to do with their ultra-conservative editorial stance, than their actual reporting. However, this time, I've caught them with some dodgy reporting...

Springer opera court fight fails "As a whole [it] was not and could not reasonably be regarded as aimed at, or an attack on, Christianity or what Christians held sacred" The latest stage in the seemingly never ending saga of...

Ofcom Content Sampling Report - Ocean FM (PDF) From time to time representatives from Ofcom 'sample' the content of a radio or TV station in order to see if the station in question is fulfilling its remit, and from the...

Channel 4 axes TV schools programmes There have been profound changes made to education over the last few years, with perhaps the most significant being the wide availability of multimedia computers combined with the possibilities afforded by a broadband internet...

Of all the broadcasting anniversaries we've been noting recently in these pages, there's one that seems to have slipped by. It might seem a small thing, but it was actually quite important, especially at the time. On Thursday 8th November...