Digital Spy: BBC phasing out quarter-size credits As somehow befitting a modern broadcaster, it's taken a while but they got there in the end, namely that someone within the BBC has finally realised that the recently-imposed corporate end credit promotion...

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BBC: 'We'll share expertise to save licence fee' This could theoretically end up being the best solution to the lingering problem of how best to support broadcasters with public service remits when money is hard to come by and when...

On the internet, news can sometimes travel too fast

Here's an interesting one. The Guardian are reporting that the Scottish Government are consulting about a possible ban of alcohol related TV ads before the 9pm watershed. It's a question that has been raised nationwide, but so far not discounted.

ITV News: Beat the property slump Tonight's "Beat the property slump" on ITV1 (which for the next couple of days can be seen again via ITV Catch Up if you have the Silverlight plugin) contained an interesting media-related accusation: "One...

Product placement: UK to oppose European Union directive, says Andy Burnham Now here's a surprise that some people may not have seen coming, namely the fact that Culture Secretary Andy Burnham is actually defending the integrity of television programmes over...

Doctor Who Restoration Team Forum: Colour recovery Colour Recovery Working Group » Full gamut colour recovery During the early years of colour television in the UK, colour videotape recording was very expensive, therefore videotapes were often reused or junked...

MTV fined £255k for offensive material Maybe MTV deserves the fine just for the mere notion of showing lots of cheaply-produced, derivative, clichéd and target audience-obsessed identikit reality TV fodder such as Totally Jodie Marsh. At any time....

EU minded to block BBC aid for Channel 4's digital switchover This if anything is potentially good news for both the BBC and (paradoxically) Channel 4, namely that the European Union seems to think that diverting cash from the licence...

Is it too late to save the Whale? Whatever James Whale himself might say, flogging double-sided bed linen, toasters and gold bangles is still a demotion from his previous radio presenter job on TalkSport; Bid TV's advertised salary (circa £25k)...