BSkyB tables £160m bid for Virgin Media channels, reports say Whilst many broadcasters are still bitterly complaining about an advertising downturn (ITV's short term Britain's Got Talent/football windfall notwithstanding), BSkyB still seems oblivious to the financial storm that currently surrounds...

Granada name to disappear from ITV businesses When Apple Inc.'s Steve Jobs first introduced the Apple TV set top box (which displays media content downloaded from the iTunes Store) during one of his famous presentations, Jobs referred to the product...

Broadcast Now: Channels agree five-year ban on revisiting Kangaroo If you want ample evidence as to what degree the Competition Commission hated the whole idea of Project Kangaroo, then look no further than this agreement drawn up between them and...

Ed Richards warns against setting 'meaningless' radio switchoff date Today's Radio 3.0 conference in London seems to have basically regurgitated the usual set of proclamations along with a few announcements along the way (Bauer's withdrawal of radio stations from Sky...

Radio Today: Bauer withdraws from Sky platform If you want further evidence that commercial radio is still in a spot of bother despite a healthy number of listeners, look no further than this announcement that Bauer is withdrawing five of...

BSkyB cries foul over BBC Trust's Project Canvas consultation When BSkyB gets publicly upset over something it's usually because there's a potential risk of its market dominance being curtailed in some form as a result. Project Kangaroo may have controversially...

Thinking for inside the box (Peter Bazalgette's plan to fix TV in a recession) Given the extent of crisis within the television industry (and other media industries as well, although it's television that's the natural focus here), it's no surprise...

ITV to axe The South Bank Show when Melvyn Bragg retires next year The news that The South Bank Show is going to be axed isn't surprising at all to be honest, but it's yet another unwelcome ITV landmark in...

Broadcast Now: C4 not up the viewers' Street There seems to be an endemic problem with programme commissioning nowadays, and it appears to revolve around the types of programming that make it to air. Perhaps broadcasters have spent too much...

Well it didn't take that long, but now we're on the sixth analogue station to close this year as UTV Radio (a name that is a contradiction in itself) killed off Valleys Radio in Wales after failing to find a buyer for the station.