Raymond Snoddy on ITV’s error in letting the South Bank show (and name) go; Sky’s ambitions in arts television; and why opera and football make the perfect combination of enthusiasms…

Raymond Snoddy says ITV and RTL’s latest statements give testimony to the enduring power of free to air commercial television and show that the media world is working in the way it should in difficult times…

Raymond Snoddy on the confusion of conflicting and overlapping investigations. The select committee may have now had its (divided) say, but we still have Ofcom, Leveson, the police… and the forgotten Communications Green Paper to come.

In an enthralling week at the Leveson Inquiry, a “bonus” column from Raymond Snoddy takes stock of Rupert Murdoch’s testimony and considers where next. “We can look forward to Leveson causing even more headlines and further pandemonium when Hunt and Cameron appear before him and take the oath.”

Raymond Snoddy wonders what we have really learnt about phone-hacking and the relationship between the media and politicians from the remarkable appearances of both James and Rupert Murdoch before the Leveson inquiry?

Raymond Snoddy says it may be economically impossible to sustain daily publication of small regional papers but the jolt from daily to weekly is an abrupt one and it is a gap that may not be adequately met by online…

Raymond Snoddy wonders whether the Facebook/Instagram deal is a symbol of how money and power has shifted in the internet world…

Raymond Snoddy on Jeremy Hunt’s Green Paper: Sensible doesn’t add up to headlines. He may be condemned for not being radical or visionary enough. That’s what you have to watch out for – something dodgy and dangerous thrown in at the last minute to gain political attention…

Raymond Snoddy on cable television and its ability to fulfil its potential but is yet to serve a “knock-out” blow to satellite and the latest piracy allegations from the UK and Australia levelled at News Corp.

Raymond Snoddy says if ever there is a time for the first female Director General to emerge it is now. No single male figure has emerged as champion and there is now a plethora of strong, experienced women broadcasters both inside and outside the BBC…