Breaking News – Nothing to report! If you’ve been following the unprecedented situation with Britain’s Hung Parliament on one of the rolling news channels, you may be mistaken for thinking that No News is Breaking News. I’ve been following the story by watching the 24 hour BBC news channel over the last few days. I’ve [...]

The UK’s lead story today is the fact that UK airspace has been closed. Volcanic action in Iceland has resulted in a clould of volcanic ash moving towards the UK. The authorities have closed UK airspace, as the ash can use a serious hazard to aircraft engines. We’ve had lots of fun watching planes landing [...]

Channel 4 has announced that it’s relationship with the US series Friends will come to an end next year. 4′s digital channel E4 has been showing two eps each night for the last six years, and it still draws a steady audience despite the show’s end in 2004. Channel 4′s Gill Hay said: “After 15 [...]

Friday the 3rd of April 2009 – a sad day for two London radio stations, Time 106.8 (serving South-East London and Greenwich) and South London Radio 107.3 (for Lewisham and Bromley), as they vanished from the airwaves. It’s a tough time for the UK commercial radio industry at the moment, and we’re sure that these [...]

The clock is ticking for the UK commercial radio industry. Ad revenue is falling, the big players are struggling to make money, listening is down, digital’s not taken off, and big names have scaled back their plans for future radio services. That’s the bleak picture being painted by many, and at the recent Changing Media [...]

Today marks another nail in the coffin of UK radio. It used to be that local radio stations had an identity – they slotted well into their local community, went out-and-about to meet their listeners, and listening was near enough compulsory to many. I grew up in a small town that got its first local [...]

Time to put you affairs in order, as this week, a bunch of CERN scientists press the big green “GO” button on the Large Hadron Collider. They’re hoping to create the God Particle (aka the Higgs Boson particle). Cast your votes now… the world will end, or we’ve flushed 5 billion quid down a large [...]

Ahh – how sad – The Halifax has announced that Howard Brown, the smug singing bloke from the cheesy Halifax ads, won’t be singing on screen any more. Apparently, something to do with not wanting to show to show a cheecky chappy at during these credit-crunching depressing times. Can I stop smirking now?