As REM’s “It’s the end of the world as we know it” begins to play, this year’s MRG conference gets underway and David Lucas and Keith Donaldson, joint chairs of the MRG, introduced the conference and summed up the organisation’s past two years of activityCommenting on the current economic slump and its effect on the… Continue reading MRG Conference 2008:Promotion of Research in the Media

Daily Newspaper MarketThe latest six monthly NRS figures, for January to June 2008, show that overall, Britain’s national daily newspaper market was static year on year in June.In the daily Quality sector, the Guardian and Times were both up by almost 8% year on year, with the Daily Mail in the Mid-Market and the Sun… Continue reading NRS National Newspaper Round-Up: January – June 2008

Following TNS clinching the BARB data contract at the end of the year, it has today bolstered its team with two new appointments.Chris Balch will become managing director of the BARB service team within TNS Media Research. Previously, he has held the role of director of operations at TNS Worldpanel UK for the last 11… Continue reading TNS Bolsters Team Ready for BARB

Eurosport has launched a high definition channel in the UK and Ireland on Sky.The channel will show the last ten days of the Tour de France and the Beijing Olympic Games in high definition in the first month alone and will be available to the half a million Sky homes that subscribe to Sky’s HD… Continue reading Eurosport Launches High Definition

After a bad day in the stock market yesterday, Trinity Mirror shares plunged down 18% in one day, taking the shares down to just 55.5p.According to reports on Brand Republic, the publishing company has lost 90% from its share price during the last year. Shares in July last year were up to ten times higher… Continue reading Warning Bells Ringing At Trinity

BT Vision has tied up with Setanta to offer its premium sports channel for free with certain BT viewing packages.Its Bronze, Silver and Gold packages will now include Setanta Sports 1 as part of its offering – viewers will simple need to pay the one-off viewing card cost of £10 to Setanta.The tie-up brings Premiership… Continue reading BT Vision Ties Up With Setanta

UKTV has announced the new channel brands for three of its key channels as Watch, GOLD and Alibi, which will launch on Tuesday 7th October.As announced in NewsLine in June, UKTV Gold is being rebranded as GOLD (see All UKTV Channels To Be Rebranded), which will stand for Go On Laugh Daily. It will become… Continue reading Watch, Alibi and GOLD: UKTV Rebrands Channels

BSkyB has teamed up with Sony to launch a video-on-demand service on Sony’s handheld console, PSP, called Go!View.PSP users will be able to access video content via their PC by going to the Go!View website.The service has already secured content partners including Disney-ABC-ESPN Television, BBC Worldwide, Sony Pictures Television International, NBC Universal International Television Distribution,… Continue reading Sony and BSkyB Launch Go!View On PSP

BT is investing £1.5 billion into a programme to give up to ten million homes super-fast Boadband by 2012.The roll out of the fibre-based broadband will be the UK’s largest ever investement into the broadband at speeds of up to 100 Mb/s with the potential for speeds of more thatn 1,000 Mbs in the future.The… Continue reading BT Plans Super-Fast Broadband

The Q2 2008 Bellwether Report was released today, with the third consecutive quarter of cuts and to the greatest extent since 2001.Disappointing sales, rising costs and growing economic gloom were cited as reasons for companies cutting marketing budgets and it expects further cuts later in the year.All sectors within marketing have seen cuts, with the… Continue reading Q2 2008 Bellwether: Largest Marketing Budgets Cuts Since 2001