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Dawn Airey, managing director of Sky Networks and outgoing chair of the MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival (as we, as title sponsors, must call it) comes into the podcast studio to talk us through the programme for this year's event. Dawn explains why Charles Allen, chief executive of ITV, is a good choice as the keynote speaker, while Emily Bell reveals the humiliation she has undergone in the name of entertainment for festival delegates.
The radio industry has an annual shindig too - in Cambridge - and I went along last week on behalf of Media Talk listeners. I speak to BBC director general Mark Thompson, Magic programme director Richard Park, and independent radio producer Jez Nelson. Meanwhile Julia Day, radio correspondent of MediaGuardian.co.uk, tells me that the festival was a missed opportunity.
We also hear from Neil Jones, managing director of Carat, Europe's biggest media buying agency, who has some insights into the state of the advertising market. And John Plunkett gives us an alternative view of the week's media news.
Please post your comments below, leave us a voice message via Skype at GU_studio, or send an audio file to media@theguardian.com. I'm afraid the publication of the BBC annual report came too late for inclusion - plenty of coverage on MediaGuardian.co.uk of course.
