The London Daily News

Billionaire Richard Desmond is set to take over Channel Five today.

The owner of Express Newspapers offered French broadcasters RTL around £100m for the station, an offer that no one has matched despite two late approaches from Channel 4 and NBC Universal.

However, the deal could still be ...

Record and DVD sales are up so far this year but video games have taken a bit hit, according to the Entertainment Retailers Association.

Music sales increased by 1.7% in the first half of 2010 in terms of volume, and 0.4% in terms of value. Moderate increases obviously ...

A bad week for radio broadcaster Jon Gaunt got worse as The Sun axed his radio show.

SunTalk, his internet radio show is shutting down with immediate effect.

The former TalkSport presenter lost in his legal efforts to overturn an OfCom decision against him earlier this week. ...

Following London nightclub Fabric's brief stint in administration recently after it became caught up in the financial difficulties of sister club Matter, company director Cameron Leslie has spoken to Resident Advisor about the situation, Fabric's new owners and the future of the club under the Dome.

The popular ...

One in twelve festival tickets sold in the UK last year were fake, according to an unpublished research report from the Office Of Fair Trading, revealed by The Guardian this week.

The number of fake music festival tickets on the market seems to have risen dramatically in recent ...

Culture minister Ed Vaizey will today formally declare his government's support for digital radio, but there will still be no date set for the FM switchoff

The uptake of digital radio - ie digital audio broadcasting - has been rather slow, with the traditional FM and AM networks ...

Entertainment Desk

World famous Koko club in Camden has launched its new roof terrace open to all gig ticket holders from 7pm Sunday to Thursdays. Located beneath the venue’s iconic illuminated sign, and adjoining the plush Lounge Bar, it’s a whopping 850 feet² – large enough to facilitate ...

What are you doing Friday night? This Friday night, the 16th July 2010. Like last Sunday around 7.30pm when London came as close as it ever has to really resembling 28 Days Later, the 16th might be a good day to get your Christmas shopping.

Inception is that ...

British music bands are raking it from royalties at home and abroad, according to collecting society PRS For Music.

Royalties for UK songwriters from non-UK broadcasters and promoters has risen 250% in the last decade, raisig £166.9 million a year. The huge rise is mainly down to the ...

Jarvis Cocker yesterday cautioned the Save BBC 6Music brigade about getting too excited about the news 6music might get a stay of execution courtesy of the BBC Trust, saying the digital station could do without a sustained period of insecurity.

Yesterday news emerged that the BBC Trust will ...