Ocean Outdoor has secured the contract to install and sell advertising screens on the scaffolding surrounding St Paul’s Church in Hammersmith, allowing marketers easy, high impact access to commuters using the busiest A-road in Europe.Situated alongside the A4, the site will remain in use by Ocean for the duration of a two year renovation of… Continue reading Ocean Offers Advertisement On Europe’s Busiest A-Road

Daily Newspaper MarketBritain’s daily newspaper market continued to look downbeat in January, with circulations slipping by 1.86% year on year to demonstrate the continuing decline facing the industry.Dips in circulation across the board in both the mid market and popular sectors contributed to the sales slip, and despite some healthy rises in the quality sector,… Continue reading ABC National Newspaper Round-Up: January 2006

Channel 4 is to relaunch its dedicated movie channel, FilmFour, as the UK’s first free-to-air film channel, ditching its subscription fee and carrying advertising breaks within films for the first time.The switch, which will widen FilmFour’s audience across the Freeview, cable and satellite platforms, is planned for July. It will see the channel follow in… Continue reading FilmFour Moves Free-To-Air As C4 Plot On-Demand Movies

Bouncing back from the embarrassing departure of Paul O’Grady last month, ITV is to retain one of its highest profile chat hosts, as talk show stalwart Michael Parkinson signs on for another year with ITV.Parky, who joined ITV from the BBC in 2004, has become one of the broadcaster’s most prized personalities, with his distinctive… Continue reading Parky To Stay Seated At ITV Until 2007

Christmas sales have boosted digital radio uptake, according to new figures from the Digital Radio Development Bureau (DRDB), with almost 500,000 digital receivers sold in December alone.The festive sales push the number of DAB purchases to date to 2.7 million, with 1.4 million sold in 2005 alone.Around 5.4 million people now listen to digital radio… Continue reading Festive Radio Sales Boost DAB Uptake

The latest RAJAR data shows the BBC fortifying its position against Britain’s commercial radio broadcasters, increasing its national share and seeing little change in the local market.All BBC’s share of listening now stands at 55.1% following a 1.1% point rise year on year, while All Commercial commands 42.8% after a 1.4% point dip.The BBC is… Continue reading BBC Strengthens Dominance Over Commercial Rivals

Heart maintains its position as the capital’s favourite station in terms of share of listening, staying ahead of Capital by the narrowest of margins.Capital’s additional 0.8% points in share period on period not only sees it put pressure on Heart, which lost 0.4% points over the period, but also moves it ahead of Magic, also… Continue reading Capital And Heart Vie For London Top Spot

Digital radio ownership in Britain is continuing to increase, with new figures released today by RAJAR showing 11.1% of adults now own a DAB Radio at home.The increase represents an increase of more than 100% year on year, with just 5.3% of adults claiming to own a digital radio in Q4 2004. However, the increase… Continue reading Digital Popularity Rising As Technology Widens Choices

Channel 4 has launched its first online TV preview, following in the footsteps of the BBC in delivering content direct to users via the internet.The preview, which enables website visitors to see the first episode of new comedy The IT Crowd prior to broadcast, follows the likes of BBC3’s The Mighty Boosh, which premiered through… Continue reading Online Premiere Hints At Channel 4’s VOD Future

Channel 4 chief executive Andy Duncan yesterday lifted the lid on the broadcaster’s long-awaited plans to enter the digital radio sector, outlining designs for a raft of Channel 4 branded stations to offer more competition to the BBC as a public service broadcaster.The TV boss revealed that Channel 4 would make a “serious bid” for… Continue reading Channel 4 Announces Plans For Digital Radio