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Published 26 December 2022
A comprehensive record of television and radio schedules during Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral on Monday 19 September 2022
Published 31 May 2018
What will Thames, TVS, TSW and TV-am do next? Broadcast magazine speculates in September 1992
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 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 25 January 2011
There will no doubt be a lot of people looking at Jeremy Hunt today and drawing a lot of negative conclusions.
Published 25 January 2011
I’m no particular fan of this present government. I’m hardly unique in this, but I’m still finding it hard to accept that we appear to have got both the furthest-to-the-right…
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 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 27 January 2009
How the call for aid to Gaza left the BBC in the thick of battle As the controversy surrounding the BBC’s stubborn refusal to air the DEC Gaza appeal rumbles…
Published 26 January 2009
Sky Won’t Screen Gaza Aid Appeal So Sky News has joined the BBC in deciding not to screen the Gaza appeal. Given that ITV, Channel 4 and Five, which have…
Published 1 April 2007
What will be the outcome of the BSkyB – Virgin Media bun-fight?
Published 24 March 2005
A few weeks ago I was flicking through channels on my Sky “freesat” (the quotes are because “Freesat” is actually, believe it or not, a BBC trademark) system upstairs to…
Published 10 May 2004
Tonight, Sky News launched a new twice-nightly news bulletin for Ireland, called Sky News Ireland. For 30 minutes at 7pm and 10pm each weeknight, the Murdoch empire takes its first…