This year's Christmas presentation on the terrestrial channels was a mixture of the dull and not-quite-so-dull: BBC One: This year was essentially the same as last Christmas, though the 'children' ident is arguably the best implementation of the current 'music...

Media Guardian on the new deal Shock! Horror! BSkyB doesn't have everything its own way! Think what you will about the European Commission, but there are times when it comes in very useful and breaking up monopolies (which the UK...

BBCi Charter Review page BBC Charter Review At the top of a webpage there was a large advert-style link entitled "WANTED Your opinions about the future of the BBC. All views welcome. Click here."; normally I don't bother to click...

Media Guardian opinion piece BBC Four is one of those channels which you may either avidly watch or alternatively dip into when everything else fails to impress; despite my admiration for the channel I (more often or not) tend to...

Media Guardian report This is an ingenious way of advertising a product on the BBC by Coca-Cola exploiting a loophole via its new deal with the Official UK Charts Company which means that Coca-Cola is guaranteed two mentions on the...

Power cut interrupts BBC services It was time for that yearly ritual of the BBC service interruption; not nearly as serious as what has happened on some previous occasions but enough to throw a rather large spanner in the works....