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Raymond Snoddy on the complex challenges facing the BBC’s in-coming director general George Entwistle…

Last night saw the return of not one but two legendary double acts on BBC Two, as judges Paul Hollywood and Mary Berry and hosts Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins returned for a third series of The Great British Bake Off (8pm). Adding a much needed injection of rock and roll to Tuesday night, the… Continue reading TV Overnights: Mel and Sue secure 3.3m for BBC Two

Mark Thompson, the outgoing director general of the BBC, has been appointed as the new president and chief executive of the New York Times.

The BBC’s Olympic coverage was a huge success, not just for TV but also for digital and mobile. The corporation logged 34.6 million cumulative online users – with a peak daily total of 7.3 million on 5 August – by the end of Saturday, just as the Games came to a close.

Jim Marshall on why TV has never been either more powerful or more intimate: Now that the BBC has proved TV’s credentials during the Olympics, it will be fascinating to see whether Channel 4 can continue this during the Paralympics, but this time with ads…

STV has partnered with Glasgow Caledonian University and Edinburgh Napier University in a bid to deliver two new local television channels in Edinburgh and Glasgow – ETV and GTV.

With the 2012 Olympic Games definitely, properly over the BBC felt that Monday night was the right time to unleash a plan in order to keep the momentum going.

NBC outperformed its own predictions for its Olympic coverage, despite criticisms during the past two weeks.

The YouView homepage now features an app for BSkyB’s Now TV, with films available for as little as 99p.

Last night’s Olympic closing ceremony attracted a peak audience of 26 million viewer. The ceremony, with performances from the Spice Girls, Take That and The Who, banked 22.9 million average viewers and a massive 80.7% audience share for BBC One.