You know the scene. You walk into the car showroom looking to buy a new Ferrari California for the wife and end up buying that and a Ferrari 458 for yourself as well. Little change from £400,000... more
Flash cars of the kind beloved by footballers and bankers are still selling. Luxury car dealership HR Owen says that although market conditions are "very challenging", profits are in line with expectations... more
Rupert Murdoch is such a convert to the world of Apple iPad and mobile apps that he has made the creation of a digital-only newspaper a top priority in the US... more
Channel 4 admits its flagship channel crashed to a £61.6 million loss last year but still makes a pre-tax profit of £2.2 million thanks to digital channels E4, Film4 and More4... more
Media Analysis: How much of a risk is ITV’s new chairman Archie Norman taking by hiring Royal Mail boss Adam Crozier to be his chief executive when neither of them has any experience of broadcasting?... more
SO farewell to Andy Duncan, who has bowed to the inevitable and stepped down as chief executive of Channel 4 before having to face the elite of the British TV industry at the Cambridge Media Convention... more
ITV comes under renewed pressure to appoint a chief executive, amid reports of a boardroom split over a bumper multi-million pound incentive scheme for the leading candidate ... more
In the endless comment about how the world has changed since Lehman, the aspect that gets too little attention is not simply how the balance of power in the world has shifted to China — but how this heralds a new kind of capitalism to which the Western world may find it difficult to adjust.... more
As leading business figures puncture the BA/BAA claim that a Third Runway is vital for the British economy by saying that, er, it isn’t, how does the airport operate.. ... more
In an interview marking the Standard’s Film Awards, Channel 4 film and drama boss Tessa Ross talks about the challenges ahead and the likely merger of 4 and Five ... more
Analysis: There was no doubting the importance that the Government attached to Lord Carter's Digital Britain Report, unveiled over breakfast and fruit smoothies... more
Media: The future of Channel 4 as an independent commercial broadcaster looks to be over after media regulator Ofcom called for the creation of a new larger public-service broadcaster as an alternative to the BBC... more
Media analysis: What will the Government do about Channel 4? Speculation is rife about how to preserve Britain's only genuine public service broadcasting alternative to the BBC... more
London still exports hit formats all over the world and is a hothouse for the use of new technologies in tandem with traditional creative talents.
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The Government's equality chief, responsible for making businesses and public bodies obey anti-discrimination laws, was paid by Channel 4 for giving advice following the Big Brother racism scandal.... more
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