Sneaking out into the ether today (WHY NOT HAVE A PINT OF FOSTERS?) is the news that Ofcom (MY MATE, MARMITE) has launched a consultation on Product (TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO - FOR THE HOLIDAY OF A LIFE TIME) Placement in TV programmes and whether commercial messages can be (I JUST CAN'T GET ENOUGH OF THAT WONDERFUL DUFF!) integrated into radio programmes.

Whilst waiting to discover its eventual fate, the BBC Trust has to at least appear 'useful' as a regulator of the BBC, therefore it's no surprise to learn that the Trust is still taking the moral high ground in relation...

The announcement that BSkyB is withdrawing its Sky Sports News channel from Freeview may not be that unexpected but it does raise some interesting unanswered questions in relation to Sky's future strategy, especially given News Corp.'s paywall experiments and the...

With the (perhaps unsurprising) announcement that Ofcom has now given the go-ahead for the BBC's so-called Freeview anti-piracy technology, there's a real danger that recording TV programmes for posterity could become effectively impossible for the casual viewer, even if it...

One of the few stations which would have benefited from the possible demise of BBC Radio 6music, has put up the shutters.

Virgin Media has finally completed a long-expected deal to sell its TV channels (Bravo, Bravo 2, Challenge, Challenge Jackpot, Living, Livingit, Virgin 1) to BSkyB for £160m, and in exchange Virgin Media gets good long term carriage deals for many...