Will the producers behind the premium-rate phone scams now be individually prosecuted in the wake of ITV's £4m fine? (a) Since ITV has now been punished there's no need to investigate any further (b) Making a scapegoat out of Simon...

Digital radio needs a makeover, says Ofcom According to Peter Davis who is Ofcom's director of radio and multimedia, DAB just requires a "Freeview-style relaunch" and also claims that "It's not Ofcom's role to save DAB". That last comment may...

Murdoch attacks BBC over iPlayer We've already had Peter Bazalgette attack the BBC's public service dominance in a speech this week, so I suppose it just had to be the case that one of the Murdoch boys (in this case,...

Privatise Channel 4, says Big Brother mogul Want a lively debate combined with a whole host of potential contradictions? Then hire Peter Bazalgette as a guest speaker as what happened with the Royal Television Society last night, so brace yourself...

BBC Programme Catalogue - Now out of action permanently, it seems When a public version of the BBC Programme Catalogue was made available online a while back as a 'beta' version, it became an invaluable resource for anyone interested in...

On the more trivial side of broadcasting news recently is the revelation that popular TV personalities Ant and Dec have rushed out and bought the rights to their old shows SM:TV Live and Byker Grove, apparently in a bid to stop digital TV channels buying the rights and showing their previous work without their permission. Or presumably, at all.

Here's a question for you: What is Google best known for? Is it a) Web services b) Industrial manufacturing c) Food recipies If you think you know the answer (ha!) ring 09012 345678 with your answer for a chance to...

The first signs of new management ideas at GCap Media are slowly being revealed. Whilst the company is not yet part of Global Radio (the move has to be agreed by shareholders first), it would seem highly unlikely that the potential new owners would have not been consulted first on todays announcements.

There's not much I can say about the latest set of numbers released publically on the BARB website. One story that garners my attention though, is that we have two channels this week, who have scored less than 1,000 viewers,...

Ofcom raps BBC over Live Earth swearing Last summer's Live Earth concerts turned out to be controversial not only for the nature of the BBC's coverage (judged by some to be non-partisan though that's a whole separate debate), but also...

Heart and Galaxy local shows cut How local should 'local radio' be? The problem is that there's no straight answer, despite Global Radio chief executive Ashley Tabor assuring us otherwise. He points out that the Global strategy is to offer...

Top of the pile when it came to today's April Fool jokes was an inspired effort from the BBC which cleverly used special effects to make something happen that wouldn't naturally be the case, namely to make penguins fly....

So here we are in this new media world. We download our music and give it to our friends, so the musicians who make it don't get any income. We write our blogs and splatter our opinions all over the...

So it's finally happened - GCap has succumbed to Global Media, with the company being sold for £375m.