Welcome to Mediaville - the blog that is designed to serve all corners of the converged media world - including TV, film, online, advertising, telecoms, gaming, mobile, technology, finance, law and all the emerging spaces in between.

Mediaville gives you a platform to discuss, predict and shape the future of the industry.

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Conor Dignam has been writing about the media industry for almost a decade, and worked on business titles in London, New York and Hong Kong.

In October 2003 he became the editor of Broadcast, the weekly newspaper of the television and radio industry. In 2007, Conor became the Publishing Director.

Dignam trained in newspaper journalism working for titles including The Birmingham Post and Sunday Mercury.

He joined Haymarket Publishing’s Marketing magazine as media editor in 1994, becoming deputy editor two years later.

In 1996 he moved to become editor of Media Week, relaunching the title and introducing new media and international coverage in its pages. He also launched the magazine’s first web site. He returned to edit Marketing in 1998.

In October 2000 he moved to New York to become editor of Ad Age Global, the international sister-title to Advertising Age. In February 2002 he returned to the UK to work as a freelance journalist and consultant.

Peter Bazalgette is a media consultant. From 2004 – 2007 he was Chief Creative Officer of Endemol, to whom he remains an adviser. He has personally devised several internationally successful television formats such as Ready Steady Cook and Changing Rooms. He also brought Big Brother to the UK. Peter’s book about the international business of TV formats, Billion Dollar Game, was published in 2005.

Peter is a Non-Executive Director of YouGov and a former Board member of Channel 4. He also serves as Deputy Chairman of the National Film and Television School and on the Board of the English National Opera. He is building a portfolio of investments in digital growth companies.