It's not unusual for the words Daily Mail and suspect reporting to come up, although usually it has more to do with their ultra-conservative editorial stance, than their actual reporting. However, this time, I've caught them with some dodgy reporting...

This is a story that I have been following since the first announcement of the second Plymouth licence. I was half expecting that Macquarie was going to stetch this one out all the way until March 2008, but they actually...

This one crossed the wires whilst I was at the RMC newsdesk, and once again, it had me shaking my head in pure disbelief at how out of touch with reality outgoing GCap Chief Executive Ralph Bernard really is....

Verity Lambert is best known to those of us who follow the media and media history as the original producer of Doctor Who from 1963 onwards. But she started her career at Granada, then went to ABC before joining the...

WTOP, the Washington DC all news radio station is reporting that Katie Couric has been caught on video channeling Dan Rather, when he spent half an hour discussing whether his coat should be open or closed, and his collar up...

Broadcast is reporting that the media committee has recommended that a portion of the licence fee be used to fund children's programming. The problem with this is simple. Funding that has been assigned to a public service operation, should not...

From a ratings standpoint, there are times when I question the strategy of having lots of channels doing similar things. Take Discovery for instance. Back in 1998, which is the earliest point that I can reference online, Discovery had 2...

There are not many big stories in this week's ratings, so I thought I would look at the little stories that populate the ratings most weeks, but we tend not to touch on. Diva is one story I have touched...

Just a few days ago I reported that Setanta Sports News would be added to the BARB figures on November 29th. Now, Digital Spy are reporting that November 29th has been cofirmed by Setanta and Virgin Media as the official...

I regularly report on the ratings from BARB, and am always keeping an eye out for information about new channels launching. Well, the AGB Neilsen Media Research site reports on channels that are being added to the BARB ratings in...

It's difficult to keep finding stories in the publically released ratings from BARB every week, but some of the numbers prove interesting, not just the ones I call the weekly Hall Of Shame either. Last week, I said that we...

The new set of RAJARs for June to September 2007 are out, and there are many interesting things to report. First to the BBC Local Radio stations, and their top 10 by reach percentage... 01. BBC Radio Jersey - 45%...

Well, the main story in the ratings this week, seems to be one of recovery for Sky One. For the second time in three weeks, the channel has increased its share of viewing, this time going up to 1.2 share...

A bit later than usual this week, because there are less obvious stories this week. The main one however, is Virgin 1. In it's first week of operation, V1 manages a credible 0.5 share / 13.8 weekly reach. This equates...

Well, we have some very interesting and unusual news from the latest publically released ratings figures from BARB. It was during this week that ITV2 premiered The Secret Diary Of A Call Girl, a series that seemingly is not going...

As Editor of Radiomusications, I am particularly pleased with this month's update. For you see, RMC has a special section called Radio By Numbers, covering the arrivals 40 years ago of Radios 1, 2, 3 and 4. This section has...

Well, here we go again. In the wake of "Queengate", the controller of BBC1 Peter Fincham has resigned with Roly Keating taking over on a temporary basis. It wasn't that long ago when Lorraine Heggessey left as BBC1 controller. About...

Yesterday, I reported on the shameful state of affairs in UEFA Champions League coverage on radio. How Five Live and Talksport both covered the Manchester United match yesterday, despite the fact there were 3 British teams in action. Today, it's...

After yesterday's busy day, there's barely a moment to recover before Radio Netherlands Worldwide reports via its Media Network Weblog the launch of two new radio stations on DAB in Dublin. All 80s Digital Radio is pretty self explanatory and...

Radio is my usual home for news, sport and music, although I watch TV news and ues the web too. Tonight, 3 British teams were involved in UEFA Champions League action. Television had them all covered. Manchester United vs Roma...

October 1st 2007 will go down in broadcasting history as a very active day. Sky News launched a new daytime schedule today. Sky Today with Julie Etchingham aired at 9am, with Afternoon Live with Kay Burley taking over at 1pm....

Usually, October is a quietish month when it comes to the world's media. The new Autumn/Fall season programmes have debuted and things tend to quieten down for a bit. But not this time! In global media terms, we truly have...

The latest publically released viewing figures from BARB reveal some interesting facts. The first one to catch my eye, was this... Sky Three is watched by more people than Sky One! It's true. Check the Weekly Reach figures, which shows...

At 6.17pm this evening, I receieved via an RSS feed, a press release from Sky Press Office, to inform me that Sky News had secured exclusive access to air part of Prince's O2 concert from London from 8.30pm til 9pm...

To follow up on my colleague Andrew Bowden earlier post about UKTV G2 being rebranded as Dave, this is not the first time I've come across this particular branding phenomenon. Like a lot of strange ideas, this one comes to...

This week's publically available ratings throw up some interesting titbits. ABC1, which recently announced it would be closing, had a great week, scoring 0.4 share / 5.2 weekly reach. Almost 2.5 million viewers tuned into the channel at some point...

In a change to schedules published in your TV guide, Sky have started to advertise the fact that they will be showing Rangers' UEFA Champions League match against Stuttgart on Sky One at 7.30pm this Wednesday (19th September 2007). The...

Broadcast reported earlier this week, that ITN will provide the content for Setanta Sports News, the new sports news channel that will launch initially on cable as a replacement for Sky Sports News, which was withdrawn after Sky and Virgin...

The first set of ratings for the new Autumn season have been released by BARB and it makes for interesting reading. Sky One, which was once the top rating satellite/cable/digital channel,is now an also ran with a mere 0.9 share...

It's time to talk about the growing Countdown. No, this is nothing to do with the Channel 4 game show which started on the same day that the channel did, but a news programme on US cable network MSNBC. Countdown...

The Joint National Listenership Research (JNLR) figures for Jun 06-Jun 07 have been released by Ireland's media regulator, the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland (BCI). These are the figures for radio stations in Ireland. Of interest to me is the fact...

Hot on the heels of one piece of bad journalism from the Daily Star yesterday, comes a very different journalistic boo-boo from the ultra-conservative Daily Mail. This time, making a news story out of nothing. The story is basically that...

Stories may go in and out of television and radio news bulletins and newspapers depending on how much has happened in the meantime, but rarely do you get stale news. Today, you did, from the Daily Star! The story is...

So, the Scottish National Party wants to reignite the campaign to bring a "Scottish Six" bulletin to BBC1. Perhaps it would be more helpful in general if there was much greater emphasis on news outside of London anyway in the...

Five nabs Neighbours. To follow up on what my esteemed colleague Andrew Bowden posted earlier, it looks like it will be an aussie double bill of soaps, as for the first time ever on British Television, Home and Away &...

I haven't been following the ratings too much recently, but I do notice in the latest publicly available figures on the BARB website, some very interesting stats. It is noticeable that Sky One has lost a lot of ground and...

So, the recent trend for news channels to broadcast on the net continues. The most recent addition is BBC News 24, which can now be watched live on the net. My only concern is that the bandwidth stream being allocated...

I would call myself something of a news junkie. I like to tune in to various news sources to get different perspectives on the news. This is a way of really getting a purer, more factual perspective on the news....

At the request of BT, Setanta, Virgin Media and Top Up TV, OFCOM are to investigate the world of UK based pay television. Whilst I am all in favour of an investigation, I do have my doubts as to whether...

Yes, it is true. A legend of the television industry has returned to the broadcasting ether. This particular legend first arrived on South West televison screens in 1961, and disappeared in 1992. He's been spending his time since then at...

Well, I have to say this is great news for people like myself who have a love of the broadcast media. The overly commercial venture known as ITV Play, is to completely closedown, and will be replaced on Freeview by...

Now, usually, I do not criticise 24 hour news channels for their choices of stories. There are thousands of stories out there every day, and each channel has to decide how they are going to fill the airtime, and it's...

Fox News Channel constantly advertise themselves as "Fair and Balanced", but the reality of these chyrons, or lower thirds, is quite different. Newshounds has the screenshots. We Report, You Decide!...