Fincham replaces Shaps in ITV shakeup Fincham for Shaps: it's time for a new era at ITV When Michael Grade took over the helm of ITV, he didn't immediately sack half of ITV's creative team because coming from an 'old...

Fire fighting: ITV's revamp In an attempt to turn its schedule around, ITV had recently gone for a relatively brave approach in terms of ITV1's programming which will take a while to attract viewers that are more accustomed to the...

BBC under fire from ITV over awards sponsorship Normally the BBC doesn't have problems with covering specific events (sporting or otherwise) that have a commercial sponsor, because avoiding any mention of the relevant sponsor would be highly impractical as well...

eSkeptic: Journalist-Bites-Reality! – How broadcast journalism is flawed in such a fundamental way that its utility as a tool for informing viewers is almost nil. I'm in the process of reading Andrew Keen's book The Cult of the Amateur, in...

Last night was an important occasion for BBC Three, as it unveiled both a new(ish) schedule and a whole new look for the channel. The blob idents became history with a 'pink world' concept taking its place; presumably the...

As my colleagues here have been reporting here on the MediaBlog, GCap have annouced the sale of Xfm outside London, the closure of all GCap's digital-only stations on the national Digital One multiplex, and the sale of GCap's majority stake...

The GCap/DAB story just keeps coming up with new twists as more articles get published. In an article about the economic viability of DAB on the Media Guardian website, there's an interesting comment from Fru Hazlitt.

Whilst most of the emphasis has gone onto GCap closing digital stations and selling its stake in DigitalOne, this mornings announcement also included some other major news that stands the chance of being less widely considered by the press. GCap are selling XFM.

Times Online: GCap's Fru Hazlitt switches off digital radio What ostensibly seems like a short-term cost cutting measure in a bid to make GCap seem more profitable for potential suitors could end up having a catastrophic effect for the prospects...

If I were to say to you, Simon Bates, what does he do, you'd probably say, he presents Classic FM's breakfast show and he used to be a BBC Radio 1 DJ, and occasional host of Top Of The Pops...

Over the last few months we've been rolling out a new feature at Transdiffusion. Nicknamed "More About", it involves putting in a link next to articles to find out similar articles on particular subject.

Digital Spy: Ofcom's HDTV plans "jeopardise" Freeview You just have to laugh at the intentions behind some so-called "surveys". Ask people whether they would prefer five high definition channels as opposed to (say) four, and the inevitable response for most...

BBC News: BBC considers enlarging credits When the BBC introduced a new style of end credits for its TV programmes last year, the intention was to enable a new style of "end credit promotion" (or ECP) to be used wherever...

For an extended version of this article, click here. It was bad enough that the BBC's iPlayer excludes tens of thousands of licence-payers by being Windows-only. Now Classic FM, the UK's most popular commercial radio station, has done the self-same...

I've been a technology journalist of one sort or another since 1974, and in my view there are two fundamental requirements for the job: an ability to write, of course, but also an ability to research. You really need to...