OneGold launches test version of website
From Media Network Weblog. Posted February 9 2010, 4.02pm
The planned UK station OneGold has launched what it calls a test version of its website. No start date has been announced, but the station lists its delivery platforms as FM, DAB, mobile podcast, satellite, and Freeview. Whether these will all be used remains to be seen. (more)

TV product placement ban to be lifted
From The Independent. Posted February 9 2010, 3.50pm
Product placement will be allowed on British TV programmes under new legislation announced by the Government today. (more)

BBC's top stars paid £54 million
From The Independent. Posted February 9 2010, 3.05pm
The BBC spends £54 million on its top-earning stars, according to figures out today. (more)

FCC official reports on media situation in Haiti
From Media Network Weblog. Posted February 9 2010, 1.18pm
Mindel DeLaTorre, Chief of the International Bureau of the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has returned from a mission to Haiti which was at the request of the Haitian telecommunications regulator, Conatel, and in coordination with USAID w... (more)

Old habits die hard for early riser Sir Terry Wogan
From The Independent. Posted February 9 2010, 12.41pm
Old habits die hard for Sir Terry Wogan - he still wakes up early despite hanging up his breakfast show headphones. (more)

Radio Tirana Online now streaming at 64 kbps
From Media Network Weblog. Posted February 9 2010, 12.18pm
Radio Tirana Online is now streaming what I assume to be a relay of the domestic service Radio 1 at 64 kbps. Before and after the news summary at 1200 UTC there was a short commercial for Radio Tirana Online mentioning the URL. The audio level is very high, but the quality is good and [... (more)

BBC pays £229m a year for 'talent'
From The Independent. Posted February 9 2010, 11.31am
The BBC pays its presenters, actors and other talent on its TV and radio programmes £229 million a year, the Corporation will reveal today. (more)

SES World Skies to develop orbital slot at 67° W
From Media Network Weblog. Posted February 9 2010, 11.20am
SES World Skies has reached an agreement with the Andean Community of Nations (CAN) regarding the long-term use of the 67 degrees West orbital position. (more)

GMG sells arm of its business
From Radio Today. Posted February 9 2010, 10.54am
The parent company of GMG Radio has announced they are to sell their Regional Media division to Trinity Mirror. (more)

Liberal Democrats propose guaranteed BBC production quota for radio indies
From The Stage. Posted February 9 2010, 9.51am
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More digital power for London
From Radio Today. Posted February 9 2010, 1.59am
London will be the first place in the UK to benefit from improvements to the DAB digtial radio transmission system. (more)

Students join digital debate
From Radio Today. Posted February 9 2010, 1.52am
The Student Radio Association has expressed its concerns over the Analogue Radio Scrappage Scheme, which made headlines recently in the mainstream media. (more)

Melrose Place: Cable girl
From Media Guardian. Posted February 9 2010, 12.05am
There's an all-new cast but, in its new incarnation, the glittery madness of Melrose Place is the sameA week is a long time in politics. Ten years is a lifetime in US television. (more)

Global Radio tightens up competitions
From Media Guardian. Posted February 8 2010, 4.57pm
Capital FM owner holds additional draws after listener spots problem with multiple competition entriesGlobal Radio has overhauled its on-air competition policy after an error meant that thousands of entries for its Jingle Bell Ball contest on London's 95.8 Capital FM went uncounted. (more)

Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky sues over Alexander Litvinenko poison link
From The Independent. Posted February 8 2010, 2.50pm
Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky today sued over a "savage libel" that he was behind the terrible murder of Alexander Litvinenko by radioactive poisoning. (more)