Al Jazeera Sport (AJS) has confirmed that it is interested in making a bid for Premier League football rights ahead of launching its beIN Sport network in France this week.

The 2012 UEFA Champions League final between Chelsea and Bayern Munich last weekend generated more than 7.5 million social interactions, including 2.5 million Facebook likes.

The BBC has agreed a new extension deal to broadcast Premier League highlights until the end of the 2015-16 season.

Mindshare’s head of press Vanessa Clifford is joining Newsworks, stepping into the newly-created role of director of client services and strategy.

The Radio Advertising Bureau (RAB) launched two initiatives – a LoveRadioAds app and online tool RadioGAUGE Predict – at an event in London yesterday to celebrate its 20th anniversary.

Growing penetration of internet-enabled TVs in 2012 is set to fuel the next generation of direct response television – Smart DRTV – but issues over privacy and security will continue to stymie response, according to new research from response specialist Watson Phillips Norman.

Clearcast and IMD have completed a six-month pilot scheme with Mediaocean to transfer TV campaign media data from CARIA to agency workflow systems.

A new report by In-Stat claims that the TV apps market could generate revenues of more than €1.3 billion by 2013.

71% of smart TV owners in France have connected their sets to the internet, according to Futuresource Consulting.

3D TVs accounted for 11% of all flat-panel TV sales in Q1, nearly double that of last year, and 22% of all sets over 40 inches sold featured 3D capability, according to the NPD Group’s Retail Tracking Service.