He was the richest man in Australia, a man who caused a ton of controversy when introducing World Series Cricket in 1977. Much like some of his fellow Australian media magnates, such as Rupert Murdoch and Alan Bond, he was...

In this Ratings Review segment, I will highlight the worst performers according to BARB's publicly available ratings, in this case, ranked according to their performance on the Weekly Reach ratings. 1. London TV - 41,000 2. Wine TV -...

I have been listening to a classic local radio pairing on BBC Radio Cornwall, reunited after 15 years. Former Westcountry continuity announcer Chris Langmore has been reunited with former Late Night Sou' West phone in partner Howard James, to cover...

Well, there are no real surprises in the big headline stories from these figures, publically available from the RAJAR website. BBC Radio 2 continues to hold the status of Most Popular National Radio Station, with over 12.8 million listeners. BBC...

BBC News is reporting the death of Channel 4 and Yorkshire Television presenter Richard Whitely, who was nicknamed "Twice Nightly" for regularly appearing on both Countdown and Calendar on the same day. He was 61. Legend is a word that...

We have a new leader in the BARB Multichannel Stakes. Originally, it was Sky One. Then ITV2 took over the mantle. Now, the new king of the multichannel empire is E4. It scored a 2.6 share this week, which is...

It seems that the concept of radio by satellite is very much here to stay, and even the BBC is onboard with the concept. The BBC World Service is already part of WorldSpace Satellite Radio, which broadcasts to Europe, Africa...

Having spent some time reflecting on the stirke at the BBC, I find myself in the unenviable position of being able to see both sides, to see that, yes, the BBC does need to live within its means, but also...

Well, having reviewed the night of the general election, there are several points that spring up in my mind. First, one thing that ITV actually did right, was to have a small degree of humour injected, via political cartoonist Gerald...

This is money.co.uk is reporting that industry insiders believe that Charles Allen could be looking to revive ITV Digital by purchasing Top Up TV. Now, combine this info with the purchase of SDN earlier this week, and it would...

Well, after a couple of weeks where the freely available ratings didn't show anything special, this week has proved rather different. First of all, Sky One has had a breakout week. After being stuck around 1.9 for ages, this week...

Well, it's got to be said that there are few big surprises in the freely available channel data from BARB. Sky Sports 1 raised its rating again this week to 2.6 share, based mainly on two big football matches on...

Well, the Evening Standard yesterday reported that the BBC plans to launch an Free-To-Air sports channel, sometime after 2006. Quoting BBC Controller of Sport Peter Salmon, they speculate that the channel would be used to promote minority sports. By lunchtime...

Well, as per last week, Sky One has been beaten by both ITV2 and Sky Sports 1. However this time, the ratings show that whilst ITV2 was helped by American Idol getting just over 1 million, Sky Sports 1 was...

The announcement has been made of all the nominees in the various categories of the National Hospital Radio Awards, which will be presented at the HBA Spring Conference in Belfast on April 2nd 2005. The UK Radio website has full...

Finally, OFCOM have actually published a proposed timetable for the region-by-region switch off of Analogue Terrestrial Television (ATT). The proposed dates for switch off are, in switchover order... 2008: Border, Westcountry, HTV Wales 2009: Granada HTV West, Grampian, Scottish 2010:...

BBC News Wales reports that OFCOM is considering three options for the future of Welsh fourth channel Sianel Pedwar Cymru (S4C). The options are, maintaining the status quo, bringing S4C under the wing of the BBC, or keeping the authority...

Well, having read the latest BARB ratings, freely published on BARB website, some things immediately stand out. First of all, Sky One is most definitely in trouble. For the second week in a row, it only achieves a 1.9 share,...

CBC is making their pitch to the Canadian Government in Ottawa for additional funding to improve regional television and local radio. This is the problem with being funded directly by a government, any government. Direct funding of a TV station...

Sound TV have finally officially announced a launch date for the start of their channel. The channel will launch at 7pm on Saturday 26th February. Having seen the launch schedule for the first couple of days, I can't say I'm...