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ESPN wins rights to football highlights on mobiles from Sky

Wednesday, 7 April 2010

ESPN has secured an exclusive package to show highlights of Premier League highlights on mobile phones from Sky, prompting its rival to shut down its 24/7 Football service.

BBC1 finally learns to experiment with science

Monday, 5 April 2010

The corporation's head of science, Kim Shillinglaw, admits that her subject had previously been overlooked in the curriculum of the flagship channel, reports Ian Burrell.

BBC grants BNP an election interview on Today programme

Monday, 5 April 2010

The British National Party is to be given an interview slot on the prestigious BBC Radio 4 Today programme on the morning after the corporation broadcasts its prime ministerial debate, moderated by David Dimbleby later this month.

Heavens above: The wonders of the solar system

Sunday, 4 April 2010

Michael Brooks: The BBC's series has tapped into the basic human need to contemplate the stars.

Farewell to Frost: The end of a detective story

Sunday, 4 April 2010

David Jason's character joins a long line of retired sleuths

Show dying horses, BBC told, as Aintree faces legal action

Sunday, 4 April 2010

Annual Grand National 'carnage' covered up in bid to sell television footage overseas, say campaigners

New Doctor shows he's right man for the job

Sunday, 4 April 2010

Matt Smith had his first adventure last night. And Matthew Bell believes he may be the best Time Lord yet.

Sport on TV: On a bicycle made for two, with the Grim Reaper riding tandem

Sunday, 4 April 2010

After all the exertion of watching Sport Relief, it's quite a relief to discover somebody undertaking a test of endurance for its own sake, or at least for entirely selfish reasons such as getting on the telly. Actually, maybe they aren't that different after all. But Mark Beaumont, The Man who Cycled the Americas (BBC1, Tuesday), is at least as grumpy as someone who has to bike 13,000 miles should be. Especially since it's one mountain after another, from the top of the Rockies to the bottom of the Andes. After each peak you know there is going to be a trough.

The IPL: Cricket's unexpected smash hit

Friday, 2 April 2010

It has surpassed all expectations with half a million British viewers. So who's watching?

BBC man apologises for plan to 'disguise' £100k pay

Thursday, 1 April 2010

A "reward director" for the BBC has apologised over attempts to fudge figures showing the public how many members of staff earn more than £100,000.

Sky ordered to cut sports prices – so will players pay the penalty?

Thursday, 1 April 2010

Days of huge Premier League wages could be numbered after regulator tells Murdoch to charge his rivals less

Sky must sell channels at wholesale price

Wednesday, 31 March 2010

Ofcom orders company to sell its Sky Sports 1 and 2 channels to other broadcasters at wholesale price.

Wales switches to digital TV

Wednesday, 31 March 2010

Wales will become the first part of the UK to have a fully digital TV service today.

BBC resigned to losing Masters

Wednesday, 31 March 2010

Swansong for Peter Alliss next week with Sky poised to win bidding war for TV rights

Regulator sets the fuse for shake-up of pay-TV

Wednesday, 31 March 2010

Ofcom is ready to force down the prices that Sky charges its rivals for sports and movie channels

CNN in crisis as viewers switch to partisan rivals

Wednesday, 31 March 2010

CNN, the pioneering 24-hour news channel, is considering an overhaul of its schedule after haemorrhaging viewers in its core US market.

ITV, C4 and Five are given boost as regulator launches ad review

Tuesday, 30 March 2010

Ofcom scrutiny of sales of commercials marks split with Competition Commission

BBC should spend more on compliance, says report

Tuesday, 30 March 2010

More cash should be spent on ensuring radio programmes meet editorial standards in the wake of the Sachsgate furore, a report into the aftermath of the scandal said today.

The radio show that's a global institution

Monday, 29 March 2010

Radio 4's 'The World Tonight' is 40 years old. Presenter Robin Lustig recalls tussles with politicians, South American gangsters and the males of Japan

Winkleman to take over from Ross in Film 2010 chair

Monday, 29 March 2010

Presenter Claudia Winkleman was today announced as Jonathan Ross's successor as host of Film 2010.

The Brits who are making a big noise in Hollywood

Monday, 29 March 2010

Home-grown success in movie soundtracks is being given a business boost, reports Ian Burrell

Tories attack BBC cuts to niche stations

Monday, 29 March 2010

The shadow Culture Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, has questioned the BBC's decision to cut niche radio stations such as 6 Music and BBC Asian Network.

The blades are out for TV ice-dance final

Sunday, 28 March 2010

There's been high drama off the rink as the ITV skating show comes to a climax

It's chic to be a Gleek: Why everybody wants to join the Glee club circuit

Sunday, 28 March 2010

The American TV hit is taking the UK by storm with pupils joining choirs and styling themselves on the show's geeky stars

Sport on TV: Bollywood soap with plenty of blather in cricket free-for-all

Sunday, 28 March 2010

Traditionalists who rose at dawn to watch England crawl to victory against Bangladesh over five days in the Second Test (Sky Sports 1) probably haven't got much time for the Indian Premier League (ITV4); far too lively. But it's the first free-to-air cricket we've been able to watch in ages, so we might as well make the most of it, as indeed ITV are, broadcasting live 59 of the 60 Twenty20 games.

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