The last in the series of BBC One’s ever-popular New Tricks secured the highest prime-time ratings last night.

Global Radio’s chief operating officer Don Thomson is leaving the company at the end of the month without a job to go to.

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire proved to be a magical success for ITV during the all-important peak slot last night.

The Digital Radio Development Bureau is to be dismantled and incorporated into a newly created body that has been set up to meet the government’s 2015 digital radio switchover target as outlined in Lord Carter’s Digital Britain report.

Channel Five has teamed up with Sony to broadcast its flagship shows on a new video-on-demand service that will be made available via Bravia television sets.

ITV plans to wait for Competition Commission’s ruling on the contract rights renewal (CRR) system before giving the green-light for its one-hour time-shifted channel ITV1+1.

Top-slicing the BBC’s licence fee would not only destroy the corporation in the long term, but would also be a “catastrophe for British democracy”, according to the BBC’s chief operating officer Caroline Thomson.

As the downturn continues to seriously impact TV advertising revenues – which are predicted to fall by as much as 33% by 2010 – panellists at this year’s MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival asked whether relaxing the rules on product placement could ease broadcasters’ troubles.

In true post MacTaggart style, James Murdoch attempted to add weight to his somewhat brutal attack on the BBC and Ofcom, which he feels are “suffocating” commercial broadcasters in the UK.

Channel 4’s long-awaited partnership with BBC Worldwide could be finalised within the next few weeks, according to the broadcaster’s chief executive Andy Duncan.