Global Radio, the biggest commercial radio operator in the UK, plans to launch London’s Capital Radio across the UK.

Magna Global has raised its UK advertising forecast for 2010 due to increasing revenues at a ‘faster-than-expected pace’ during the first half of the year, led by the television sector.

BBC One’s long-running Who Do You Think You Are? attracted the highest ratings during last night’s 9pm to 10pm peak-hour spot.

Almost everyone in Britain claims that within five years they will be watching television via the internet or on a digital video recorder (DVR), according to new research from Rovi.Around half of the total respondents (1000 people aged 20+ in the UK) already make use of DVRs, although viewing figures suggest that people are still… Continue reading Latest research gives an insight in to the future of television

3D is still one of the most talked-about opportunities for television but new research from Screen Digest suggests that the sector is set to suffer another hitch come Christmas time as only a handful of 3D blu-ray titles are scheduled to be on sale during the all-important festive period.

This weekend’s television schedule was filled with a whole host of drama, grand finales, and new series but Saturday night’s X Factor still stole the show with more than 11 million peak viewers.

August was another poor month for the daily newspaper market, with circulations continuing to decline compared with this time last year.

A new report from comScore shows that nearly all of the top ten UK ad networks are starting to see encourgaging growth, having increased their reach over the past year. Google Ad Networks remains in the lead with a reach of more than 38 million internet users.

As has been the case every month so far in 2010, we have seen inflation across the TV market… The cost of TV airtime has gone up once again across all buying audiences.

Post World Cup July saw falls in viewing share for both BBC1 and ITV1. BBC1 posted a slight decrease amongst all home viewing share, whilst ITV1 saw its total drop substantially on 2009’s figures.