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Ian Beaumont
Wednesday 9 July 2008
Broadcast Now reports that the director of ITV Regions, Michael Jeremy, has sent a letter to all staff in the regions detailing the timetable for redundancies and their plans for creating their new vision of regional ITV. I say this...
Read all of 'ITV regional cutbacks: devil in the details.'.
Wednesday 9 April 2008
There's not much I can say about the latest set of numbers released publically on the BARB website. One story that garners my attention though, is that we have two channels this week, who have scored less than 1,000 viewers,...
Read all of 'Ratings Review: BARB week ending 30th March 2008'.
Saturday 15 March 2008
I feel sorry for those who are living in Atlanta, Georgia, USA right now. Tornados are not fun. We in Cornwall just recently had storm to hurrican force winds dumped on us not too long ago,so we have an idea...
Read all of 'CNN US broadcasting internationally.'.
Wednesday 5 March 2008
There's been very few things of interest to report in the ratings recently, but this week, there is at least one interesting story to report, and it comes in the publically available programme ratings for the various multi-channels. It has...
Read all of 'Ratings Review: BARB week ending 24th February 2008'.
Monday 11 February 2008
As my colleagues here have been reporting here on the MediaBlog, GCap have annouced the sale of Xfm outside London, the closure of all GCap's digital-only stations on the national Digital One multiplex, and the sale of GCap's majority stake...
Read all of 'GCap's DAB debacle'.
Sunday 10 February 2008
If I were to say to you, Simon Bates, what does he do, you'd probably say, he presents Classic FM's breakfast show and he used to be a BBC Radio 1 DJ, and occasional host of Top Of The Pops...
Read all of 'Classic FM's Simon Bates on US television!'.
Tuesday 29 January 2008
Enders Analysis have done something that the radio industry wanted them to do. A couple of radio bigwigs have been talking about a crisis in DAB digital radio, a crisis that by the way doesn't actually exist except in the...
Read all of 'Report talks down DAB radio, with dubious accuracy.'.
Sunday 27 January 2008
Every independent media commentator knows that the Daily Mail is a conservative newspaper with a well established line in BBC bashing. I have previously documented myself just how desperate the Daily Mail is to discredit the BBC at EVERY opportunity....
Read all of 'The Daily Mail and BBC bashing.'.
Friday 25 January 2008
A bit later in the week than I usually post these, but here we go with another review of the latest publically released BARB ratings. First thing I'm going to talk about is Setanta, as I have noticed in the...
Read all of 'Ratings Review: week ending 13 January 2008'.
Saturday 12 January 2008
As my colleagues have already pointed out, DAB, or more precisely the Digital One multiplex, has lost two more stations. Oneword's closure was not a big surprise, it was expected and predicted for quite some time. And Core has been...
Read all of 'Digital One suffers more closures'.
Thursday 6 December 2007
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...
Read all of 'Daily Mail, Katie Derham and suspect reporting.'.
Thursday 29 November 2007
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...
Read all of 'Macquarie hands back Plymouth licence.'.
Monday 26 November 2007
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....
Read all of 'Ralph Bernard and words of wisdom... Not!'.
Friday 23 November 2007
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...
Read all of 'Verity Lambert 1935-2007'.
Saturday 17 November 2007
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...
Read all of 'Katie Couric, a coat, a cold night, and channeling Dan Rather!'.
Friday 16 November 2007
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...
Read all of 'Top-slice Licence Fee money to save CITV?'.
Thursday 15 November 2007
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...
Read all of 'Ratings Review: BARB Week Ending 4th November 2007'.
Thursday 8 November 2007
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...
Read all of 'Ratings Review: BARB Week Ending 28th October 2007'.
Monday 5 November 2007
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...
Read all of 'Setanta Sports News launch date confirmed.'.
Saturday 3 November 2007
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...
Read all of 'New channels being added to BARB figures'.
Wednesday 31 October 2007
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...
Read all of 'Ratings Review: BARB Week Ending 21st October 2007'.
Thursday 25 October 2007
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%...
Read all of 'Ratings Review: RAJAR Quarter 3 2007'.
Wednesday 24 October 2007
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...
Read all of 'Ratings Review: BARB Week Ending 14th October 2007'.
Sunday 21 October 2007
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...
Read all of 'Ratings Review: BARB Week Ending 07 October 2007'.
Thursday 11 October 2007
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...
Read all of 'Ratings Review: BARB Week Ending 30th September 2007'.
Sunday 7 October 2007
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...
Read all of 'October on Transdiffusion.'.
Friday 5 October 2007
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...
Read all of 'BBC One Controller resigns!'.
Wednesday 3 October 2007
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...
Read all of 'No improvement in UEFA Champions League radio coverage saga.'.
Tuesday 2 October 2007
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...
Read all of 'Media Octoberfest Day 2: Two new radio stations on DAB in Dublin'.
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...
Read all of 'UEFA Champions League coverage on radio. Why the same match?'.
Monday 1 October 2007
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....
Read all of 'A busy day!'.
Sunday 30 September 2007
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...
Read all of 'A Media Octoberfest!'.
Wednesday 26 September 2007
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...
Read all of 'Ratings Review: BARB Week Ending 16th September 2007'.
Friday 21 September 2007
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...
Read all of 'Pop Concert + News Channel = Strange bedfellows!!!'.
Thursday 20 September 2007
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...
Read all of 'UKTV G2 - Dave! The new school of branding'.
Wednesday 19 September 2007
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...
Read all of 'Ratings Review: BARB Week Ending 09 September 2007'.
Sunday 16 September 2007
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...
Read all of 'Sky propping up Sky One with Champions League Football'.
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...
Read all of 'A new battleground?'.
Wednesday 12 September 2007
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...
Read all of 'Ratings Review: BARB Week Ending 02 September 2007'.
Friday 31 August 2007
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...
Read all of 'US Cable News Ratings: Countdown's best figures!'.
Friday 24 August 2007
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...
Read all of 'Ratings Review: JNLR year ending Jun 07'.
Wednesday 22 August 2007
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...
Read all of 'And now, the non-news, about the newscaster!'.
Tuesday 21 August 2007
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...
Read all of 'Repackaged 18 month old news? Must be the silly season!'.
Friday 8 June 2007
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...
Read all of 'SNP wants "Scottish Six"... again!!!'.
Friday 18 May 2007
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 &...
Read all of 'New Home for the Neighbours'.
Thursday 17 May 2007
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...
Read all of 'Ratings Review: BARB 05th June 2007'.
Tuesday 8 May 2007
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...
Read all of 'Watching the news on the net'.
Friday 20 April 2007
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....
Read all of 'Editorialising The News'.
Tuesday 20 March 2007
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...
Read all of 'OFCOM investigates UK pay TV'.
Monday 19 March 2007
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...
Read all of 'A Television Legend returns to the Cornish airwaves!'.
Tuesday 13 March 2007
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...
Read all of 'Breaking News. ITV Play to close. Hooray!'.
Sunday 21 January 2007
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...
Read all of 'Priorities on Sky News???'.
Friday 12 January 2007
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!...
Read all of 'Graphically Unbalanced??? Looks like it.'.
Sunday 5 November 2006
There have been many rumours around the net about the launch of Al-Jazeera International. So many and for so long, that this has become one of the most anticipated launches this year, on a par with the new channels from...
Read all of 'Al-Jazeera International: Do Conservatives want to see it?'.
Thursday 26 October 2006
It has taken a day or so of analysis of the publicly available BARB data, but there are one or two interesting conclusions out of this week's data. It doesn't happen very often with multi-channel programmes, and it is more...
Read all of 'Ratings Review: BARB Week Ending 15th October 2006'.
Monday 23 October 2006
I have noticed something in my observations of the various blogs and commentators on the internet, and that is that there is no single "enemy" organisation for conservatives. Bill O'Reilly, Michelle Malkin, Natalie Solent and others regularly target almost all...
Read all of 'Bias In The Media - Don't conservatives get it?'.
Wednesday 11 October 2006
Well, there are a few surprises coming out of the latest publicly viewable ratings. On the channel side, we see that the joint highest rating channels right now, according to share of viewing are ITV2 and Sky Sports 1, both...
Read all of 'Ratings Review: BARB Week Ending 24th September 2006'.
Thursday 6 July 2006
Well, having been listening to the FM radio all day, rather than the DAB radio, I have been pleasantly surprised by the new station on the block in my area. It's called Atlantic FM and it is not related at...
Read all of 'New on the radio: Atlantic FM'.
Friday 9 June 2006
Over 2 million Americans and many others around the world watch Bill O'Reilly's "The O'Reilly Factor" on Fox News Channel. But yesterday, the programme, which is often refered to as the "No Spin Zone" spun out of control in joyous...
Read all of '"No Spin Zone" spins out of control!'.
Thursday 18 May 2006
Well, this is an odd move, but one I applaud. The BBC have revamped the music that counts down to the top of the hour on their 24 hour news channel, BBC News 24. What's more, they've only gone and...
Read all of 'BBC News 24... Remixed and Released!'.
Friday 13 January 2006
Okay, it will only be for viewers of the Anglia region, but as EDP 24 reports, the knight is to return as part of the new title sequence for Anglia's news programmes. Why they changed the knight for the A...
Read all of 'The Anglia Knight returns to our screens.'.
Friday 6 January 2006
This is not the sort of thing I like talking about, but it definitely is a shaker. A phone-in caller to a local radio station in Liverpool, died whilst he was on the air. As someone who has worked in...
Read all of 'Caller dies live on the radio'.
Tuesday 27 December 2005
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...
Read all of 'Australian Media Magnate Kerry Packer dies, aged 68'.
Thursday 1 December 2005
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 -...
Read all of 'Ratings Review: BARB Week Ending 20th November 2005'.
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...
Read all of 'Memories of a fun radio team'.
Thursday 27 October 2005
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...
Read all of 'Ratings Review: RAJAR Quarter 3 2005'.
Sunday 26 June 2005
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...
Read all of 'Richard "Twice Nightly" Whiteley. A TV legend dies.'.
Thursday 23 June 2005
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...
Read all of 'Ratings Review: BARB 12th June 2005'.
Tuesday 21 June 2005
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...
Read all of 'BBC Radio 1 to air in USA on Sirius Satellite Radio.'.
Tuesday 24 May 2005
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...
Read all of 'Thoughts on the BBC Strike.'.
Saturday 7 May 2005
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...
Read all of 'Thoughts On Election Night'.
Sunday 1 May 2005
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...
Read all of 'ITV Digital Mark 2?'.
Wednesday 9 March 2005
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...
Read all of 'Ratings Review: W/e 27 February 2005'.
Wednesday 16 February 2005
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...
Read all of 'Ratings Review: BARB w/e 06/02/2005'.
Friday 11 February 2005
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...
Read all of 'BBC Sport Channel on the way?'.
Wednesday 9 February 2005
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...
Read all of 'Ratings Review: BARB w/e 30/01/2005'.
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...
Read all of 'Hospital Radio Awards Nominees announced'.
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:...
Read all of 'OFCOM details Digital Switchover Timetable.'.
Tuesday 8 February 2005
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...
Read all of 'OFCOM examines future of S4C.'.
Sunday 6 February 2005
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,...
Read all of 'Ratings Review: BARB w/e 23/01/2005'.
Saturday 5 February 2005
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...
Read all of 'CBC appeals to Ottawa for more public money'.
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...
Read all of 'Sound TV launch finally confirmed'.
Monday 1 November 2004
ITV3, which has been the centre of a lot of heated discussion between Sky and ITV will now launch at the official launch time of 9pm tonight, Monday November 1st 2004. Apparently, this is the result of a deal between...
Read all of 'BREAKING NEWS: ITV3 to launch on Sky Digital, at 9pm Tonight'.
Wednesday 4 August 2004
If you are a shareholder of ITV or BSkyB, then Wednesday 4th August 2004 will not have been a good day for you. ITV plc shareholders may have only seen a half pence fall in their share price, down to...
Read all of 'ITV and Sky shares in the red'.
Well, you wait ages for a decent Freeview channel to come along, and suddenly, there is a rush of them. Hard on the heels of the news of ITV3's launch, comes word from Digitial Spy of the launch of Disney's...
Read all of 'Disney to launch ABC1 on Freeview.'.
Both Media Guardian. and Sky Digi Online are reporting that ITV is to launch ITV3 onto the Freeview platform on DTT, as well as the usual launches on Sky and Cable, on Novemeber 1st. Now whilst I consider this to...
Read all of 'ITV3 on Freeview, but who goes?'.
Friday 16 April 2004
Almost inevitably, in the wake on Michael Grade's statement about broadcasting not using the net well enough as a distribution medium, the BBC has announced that it will be broadcasting all 40 of its BBC Local Radio stations in England...
Read all of 'BBC Local Radio, available on the internet.'.
Monday 12 April 2004
From the Intertel section, comes word that the company which owns CityTV, CHUM Limited, is acquiring Craig Media Inc. for $265 million Canadian. The deal, subject to regulatory approval from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, will mean that CHUM...
Read all of 'CHUM acquires Craig Media, to expand into Western Canada.'.
Tuesday 6 April 2004
Media Guardian is reporting that Michael Grade is urging broadcasters to embrace the net, or face the sort of piracy issues that have been dogging the music industry. When the net was new, radio and TV were quick to start...
Read all of '"Broadcasters failing to embrace net" - Grade'.
Friday 12 March 2004
Well, in amongst the broadcasting community, this has been one of the least widely reported developments, but from Wednesday 17th March, aka St Patrick's Day, RTE Radio 1 will be broadcasting right across Ireland and most of the UK as...
Read all of 'RTE to officially launch Radio 1 on 252 LW'.
At long last, we are going to see some long awaited streamlining of the Entertainment section of the Sky Digital EPG. The huge gap between 152 and 181 was always a problem and now Digital Spy have confirmed the section...
Read all of 'Sky Entertainment Section Reshuffle'.
Monday 1 March 2004
I have to say I have very real doubts about the viability of Top Up TV They say they need 250,000 subscribers by year end. Well, according to the published facts and figures, by Top Up TV themselves, and those...
Read all of 'Top Up TV: The figures don't add up.'.
Monday 16 February 2004
So, the Sunday Times reports that the BBC could be broken up into 4 seperate broadcasters for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, according to a leaked government document. Now, before everybody jumps up and says, oh it's only another...
Read all of 'Sunday Times Report: BBC could be broken up regionally.'.
Monday 2 February 2004
ITV pull the surprise on us and actually launched the new look ITV News at 5.30am in the morning. The ITV Morning News on ITV1 and the ITV News Channel was the first programme to use the new look. Some...
Read all of 'The New ITV News'.
Friday 30 January 2004
Andrew Gilligan, who was BBC Radio 4's Today programme's Defence & Diplomatic Correspondent has resigned from the BBC with immediate effect....
Read all of 'Breaking News from Action Central: Andrew Gilligan Resigns'.
Wednesday 28 January 2004
BBC News 24 is reporting that Gavyn Davies will tender his resignation as Chairman of the BBC to the board of Governors when they begin their informal meeting later tonight. More on this story as we get it....
Read all of 'BREAKING NEWS from Action Central: Gavyn Davies Resigns'.
Well, now that the Hutton Report has been published, let us take a moment to put the report into its proper perspective. The media continues to accuse the BBC of broadcasting a false report. Let us get this in perspective,...
Read all of 'The Hutton Report'.
Tuesday 25 November 2003
Media Guardian reports that staff at Granada Media belonging to the NUJ, Bectu and Amicus will vote on strike action in a pay dispute after Granada imposed a 2% pay rise. If the strike went ahead, it would affect output...
Read all of 'Granada Industrial Dispute in ITV's future?'.
Monday 17 November 2003
There seems to be no let up in the number of channels that are ready to launch, and the number of companies launching new channels onto the market. The latest to launch is iSportsTV from the team behind Avago. Broadcasting...
Read all of 'iSportsTV arrives on Sky Digital'.
Sunday 16 November 2003
Sometimes, when a change takes place, it does so with enormous fanfare, other times, it barely gets noticed. This is one of those changes that happened at some point recently, and nobody noticed. Somehow, a deal has obviously been done...
Read all of 'Changes on the quiet.'.
Friday 14 November 2003
From Transdiffusion's Bitstream department, comes news of new channels coming soon to a television near you. VH-2. Years after the original VH-1 launched, the team at MTV Networks have finally gotten around to launching a VH-2, the VH of the...
Read all of 'New Channels Coming Soon...'.
It has been speculated on since the death of Christopher Price in 2002, but now we know for sure. BBC Three is bringing the axe down on Liquid News. The entertainment news programme, which grew out of BBC News 24's...
Read all of 'BBC Three liquidizes Liquid News'.
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