digital britain - interim report: Government outlines plans for UK’s digital transition Today saw the publication of (Lord) Stephen Carter's interim report entitled "Digital Britain", which in one sense is a government response to Ofcom's previous report; indeed "Digital Britain"...

How the call for aid to Gaza left the BBC in the thick of battle As the controversy surrounding the BBC's stubborn refusal to air the DEC Gaza appeal rumbles on after the event (ironically giving the appeal much more...

Sky Won't Screen Gaza Aid Appeal So Sky News has joined the BBC in deciding not to screen the Gaza appeal. Given that ITV, Channel 4 and Five, which have all demurred, don't have international audiences to worry about, it...

Protest over BBC Gaza appeal veto Let me first state my position. I personally am very much in favour of support for the Gaza Crisis Appeal. Just looking at the pictures of dreadful injuries, UN schools shelled, the use of...

Apologies, people of Gaza - the BBC is a bit jumpy lately It is sometimes said, rightly or wrongly, that the BBC and the Guardian newspaper are a good fit. The Corporation certainly does quite a bit of recruitment advertising...

The Bill cut to once a week Although the motive for trimming back ITV1's The Bill to a once a week, post-watershed slot is mainly financial (drama in particular being expensive to produce), this could represent an long overdue opportunity...

The fall out of the recent Ofcom report into the future of commercial public service broadcasting continues, with The Guardian reporting that Ofcom are not aren't convinced that there will need to be a separate Teletext franchise going forward.

As mentioned on the Digital Spy forum, this may have happened close to an ad break but is an example of the latest technique that's now used by certain US channels (on cable TV in this case) for promoting...

BBC and Channel 4 in talks to buy Virgin Media's UKTV stake If the BBC and Channel 4 can join forces to purchase Virgin Media's UKTV stake, then this not only solves some of the "keeping Channel 4 alive" problem...

BBC licence fee 'digital surplus' could help fund new PSB body, says Ofcom Ofcom: Report summary plus links to full versions Now that the long-awaited report from Ofcom has finally appeared, some of the rampant speculation (along with accompanying deliberate...

"Here comes counsel for the picaninny." You wouldn't get away with such language today. Not even a public servant - and even the most obnoxious guard of the cells below the esteemed courts of the Central Criminal Court, better known...

ITV fined £220,000 by Ofcom over regional quotas It has taken Ofcom a year to punish ITV for a regional programming expenditure shortfall in 2007 (likewise a two year delay for 2006), meaning that ITV has finally been fined for...

BBC director general backs merger of Channel 4 and Five It won't be long before Channel 4 finds out its long term fate later this month, but before that happens there's the usual round of speculation and opinion-making that precedes...

Let Channel 4 make its own shows, says shadow culture secretary Jeremy Hunt Bearing in mind that the Conservative Party occasionally seems to change certain policies depending on whatever consensus happens to be in vogue at the time, it's perhaps...