GMTV concludes final show
Long-running morning show GMTV bowed out today with presenter Andrew Castle
thanking the loyal viewers who watched it in its 17-year run.
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 11:39:55 +0100 Phone-hacking row returns to haunt Cameron's chief spin doctor
The Prime Minister's media adviser Andy Coulson faces being summoned to court to give evidence over further allegations of phone-hacking by reporters from the News of the World during the time he was editing the newspaper.
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 08:16:38 +0100 How to get ahead in advertising
But for Saatchi & Saatchi, the London advertising agency founded 40 years ago next week, you mightn't be reading this page. Indeed, there just mightn't have been an Independent at all ? something in the time-space continuum could've gone slip-sliding away. That's the way The Independent's original 1980s' founding Gang of Three ? Andreas Whittam Smith, Matthew Symonds and Stephen Glover ? tell it, anyway.
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 00:00:01 +0100 Stig's BBC career heading for an emergency stop
The brakes have been slammed on racing driver Ben Collins's career as Top
Gear's The Stig following his High Court battle with the BBC, sources said
today.
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:59:31 +0100 Annie Nightingale: The first lady of Radio 1
Radio 1, your boys took one hell of a beating. Emperor Rosko, Tony Blackburn, Fluff Freeman, Ed Stewart, Pete Murray and the rest of the all-male presenting team that launched Radio 1 in 1967, have one-by-one parted company with the network. But Annie Nightingale is still there.
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:00:01 +0100 Media Lunch: Richard Hillgrove, founder, Hillgrove PR
The venue: The Thomas Cubitt, in Elizabeth Street, Belgravia. It was
recommended to me by a diary editor, who told me that everyone was going
there. It's much better than a typical gastro-pub.
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:00:01 +0100 Has Rupert Murdoch's paywall gamble paid off?
As the fugitive businessman Asil Nadir flew back to Britain from his North Cyprus bolt-hole last week, Sean O'Neill, the crime editor of The Times, scooped Fleet Street by being the only print journalist on the plane. Yet those searching Google for the latest on the breaking story that morning would have found no sign of O'Neill's exclusive ? only follow-up stories by rival news organisations such as The Guardian and ITN.
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:00:01 +0100 BP's media spend attacked in House
BP said it has spent more than $5m (£3.3m) a week on advertising since the Gulf Coast oil spill ? more than three times the amount it spent during the same period last year.
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:00:01 +0100 Stig wins court fight to reveal his identity
The name of Top Gear's stunt driver has been revealed to the world after Ben Collins ? known on the television show as The Stig ? won a High Court ruling against the BBC yesterday. Mr Collins, 35, Top Gear's incognito racing driver for the past seven years, has written an autobiography that the BBC tried to prevent being published, claiming Collins signed a confidentiality contract when he joined the show.
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:00:01 +0100 Ryder Cup coverage in doubt over BBC strike
The BBC's plans for covering the political party conference season were thrown into chaos yesterday when staff voted emphatically to strike over proposed changes to their pensions. The planned industrial action is also set to disrupt coverage of next month's Ryder Cup golf tournament.
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:00:01 +0100 The Stig unmasked as Bond stunt double Ben Collins
The High Court today refused to ban a book which reveals that Top Gear's The
Stig is racing driver Ben Collins.
Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:33:59 +0100 BBC strike threat after pension ballot
The BBC is facing the threat of strikes after thousands of journalists,
technicians and other staff voted massively in favour of industrial action
in a row over pensions, it was announced today.
Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:24:19 +0100 Coronation Street to go out live to mark 50th anniversary
Coronation Street is to broadcast a live episode as part of its 50th
anniversary celebrations, soap bosses have confirmed.
Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:20:51 +0100 Shed Media profit increases by 22 per cent
Shed Media said it overcame a "turbulent" television market in the first half of the year as it reported a 22 per cent rise in adjusted pre-tax profits.
Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:00:01 +0100 Adrian Chiles attacks 'intolerable pressure' from BBC
Adrian Chiles attacked the BBC today and said he and Christine Bleakley were
portrayed as greedy and put under "intolerable pressure" over
their decision to quit the corporation.
Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:15:58 +0100 'Stig' identity case reaches High Court
A bid to prevent the revelation of the identity of Top Gear's mystery driver
The Stig began in private at the High Court today.
Tue, 31 Aug 2010 15:58:13 +0100 Jonathan Ross returning to the BBC
Jonathan Ross is to return to the BBC less than three months after his
high-profile departure, to host a movie awards show, it was announced today.
Tue, 31 Aug 2010 15:57:13 +0100 Stephen Glover: Thompson's attack is more than it seems
In his MacTaggart Lecture a year ago, James Murdoch, son of Rupert and head of
the Murdoch empire in Britain, accused the BBC of mounting a "land grab",
and described its ambitions as "chilling".
Mon, 30 Aug 2010 00:00:01 +0100 BBC1 chief declares truce in Saturday night ratings war
The BBC and ITV's Saturday night ratings war is at an end, the controller of BBC1, Jay Hunt, has signalled, saying she would no longer be alarmed if her network ceased to be Britain's most popular channel.
Mon, 30 Aug 2010 00:00:01 +0100 Wiki giants on a collision course over shared name
In 1995, an American software developer was told by an attendant at Honolulu airport to take the "Wiki Wiki Shuttle" that connects the airports two terminals. The word is Hawaiian for "fast". On returning to the US mainland, Ward Cunningham named his website "WikiWikiWeb". It allowed computer programmers to share and edit each other's code, the first website of its type.
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