Last Saturday, viewers of Doctor Who on BBC One in England were abruptly treated to a caption promoting "Over the Rainbow" which appeared shortly before the end credits during the final climax; an event that perhaps unsurprisingly triggered a barrage...

I feel I must confess that I'm not a regular reader of the Daily Express. Well, who would be? However when my attention was drawn to this particular article, I just had to read. And so you don't have to feel as dirty as I did, I'll pull out the relevant quote...

If you've ever wondered what a Lego version of Bowie would look like (and lets be honest here, who hasn't?) this is the video to watch.

Following on from yesterday's Doctor Who episode "Victory of the Daleks" is this Private Eye article that supposedly shines some light on certain marketing decisions that have allegedly affected this year's Doctor Who series as a whole, including a mildly...

What do the mainstream parties have to say about the future of broadcasting?

On 5 April 2010 Pennine FM became the latest in a list of smaller commercial radio stations to shut down and hand back its licence to Ofcom.

If BBC management weren't planning to close any radio stations, the repositioning of 1Xtra as a closer relation to Radio 1 would make sense from a marketing perspective because at a stroke you would broaden the appeal of 1Xtra, thereby...

Whilst the BBC Trust is trying to appear useful by blocking the UK launch of dedicated iPhone (and iPad) applications for various BBC services, BBC Worldwide has gone ahead and launched the iPad News app in the US where it...

I was on holiday on 27 March else I would have been standing outside Broadcasting House chanting and waving my placard at the protests against the proposed closure of the wonderful BBC Radio 6music.

About a year ago, a free music streaming service called Spotify was launched in the UK (it's available elsewhere too). At the start, it didn't have all that much music on it, but the catalogue has since grown and there's...

The new Transdiffusion: harder, better, faster, stronger. Well, better, anyway.

If you're reading this by a newsreader then you probably won't notice any difference, however if you're on the website itself you'll probably notice that we've had the decorators in and the MediaBlog has a brand new look.