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Published 7 September 2022
The wireless is increasingly being used for news broadcasts in the UK, but elsewhere the story is different
Published 16 August 2018
An introduction to Independent Television programming in 1966
Published 30 April 2018
Yorkshire Television’s Calendar goes electronic in 1988
Published 29 January 2018
How the news gets from Europe to your TV screen in 1967
Published 16 January 2018
⧉ Inside ‘ABC at Large’, the campaigning current affairs series, in 1962
Published 12 January 2018
⧉ Find out how ITN brought the news to us over on our 1960s culture site, my1960s.com
Published 4 April 2017
Our series on the first year of Granada looks at local news for the North
Published 26 May 2012
BLOG: Remember a few years ago when ITV plc decided that 17 regional news programmes was unsustainable and that to make commercial sense they should only have nine in England and Wales? Well that was in 2009. Now it’s 2012 and it seems ITV have had a change of heart.
Published 13 September 2011
BLOG: It’s been the way it has been for so long that we just accept it. However I can’t be the only one who finds the fact that at 6pm ITV1 shows the national news after the regional news?
Published 13 July 2011
If you wanted excitement, intrigue and unpredictability in the world of media news then this past week simply had the lot, starting off with what seemed like a minor escalation…
Published 11 July 2011
Never has a week seemed like such a long time in news. Go back a month and if anyone had said that the News of the World would soon be no more and that News International would be fighting for its reputation and survival, you’d think they were mad and would be preparing to get the doctors with the straight jackets.
Published 6 July 2011
Can News Corporation still achieve its dream of taking over BSkyB despite what now appears to be difficult if not insurmountable obstacles that have been placed in its path? Up…
Published 7 March 2011
You know that the BBC is in serious financial trouble when it’s now floating an idea to replace daytime BBC Two with rolling news, aka BBC News 24 or the…
Published 3 March 2011
Admit it to yourself, this isn’t a surprise even if you initially thought it was. It seemed obvious that Sky News was going to be the sacrificial lamb in a…
Published 2 March 2011
To some outside observers, the loss of people like Pete Clifton from the BBC’s online news operation may seem relatively trivial from a day-to-day basis because it’s the journalists and…
Published 24 January 2011
So the BBC has finally revealed a list of its online services for trimming or closure in order to meet its 25% budget cut, which broadly correlates with a similar…
Published 18 December 2010
Major news provision costs money. Of all people, Mark Thompson ought to know a thing or two when it comes to such matters, as well as the roles and responsibilities…
Published 24 November 2010
The news that Channel 5’s new owner Richard Desmond wants to make a more popularist, celebrity led news service, just makes me want to shrug and go “meh”.
Published 23 October 2009
Griffin complaint over BBC ‘mob’ It’s hard to feel much sympathy for Nick Griffin, the leader of the right-wing British National Party, whose controversial appearance on Question Time last night…
Published 22 October 2009
ITV to drop Big Ben from News at Ten titles It’s no surprise to learn that ITV bosses have decided to partly apportion the blame for relatively low ratings for…
Published 16 October 2009
Parliament and free speech: The right to know The Minton report If ever anyone were still sanguine about the right of free speech in this country, the débâcle this week…
Published 26 June 2009
Once every so often, a news story breaks of great enough importance that gets the media into such a tizz it makes everything else take a back seat for a…
Published 10 November 2008
Media exacerbated house-price myths, says BBC’s Robert Peston The subject of whether or not the media recklessly promoted the concepts of property renovation for profit as well as the surge…
Published 5 November 2008
Last night found me glued to the BBC News US Election coverage on the BBC website until I dragged myself away at 3am, with Ohio called for Obama and Virginia…
Published 30 October 2008
Over the last couple of years I have steadily watched the quality of the BBC’s news offerings decline with worrying speed. Gone are the days when the winner of last…
Published 23 June 2008
On the internet, news can sometimes travel too fast