This year’s incarnation of Celebrity Big Brother – Big Brother: Celebrity Hijack – failed to win the 9pm timeslot for Channel 4 last night, with an average of over 2.6 million adults tuning in to the new format.The programme, which saw the likes of Matt Lucas of Little Britain fame perform a stint as ‘Big… Continue reading Celebrity Big Brother Reincarnation Fails To Hijack Ratings
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Orange has signed a content agreement with Setanta, which will allow the mobile giant to stream live coverage of every televised match of the Barclays Premier League through mobile portal Orange World.Setanta Sports 1, Setanta Sports 2 and Setanta Golf will be broadcast on the portal, with the content deal also allowing Orange mobile customers… Continue reading Orange Signs Setanta Content Deal
Bebo has been named the top performing social networking site, beating off competition from Facebook and MySpace, in a poll published today by Computing Which? magazine.Computing Which? looked at ease of setting up and use, features and privacy protection and security of the top 10 social networking sites.Bebo achieved an overall score of 79%, with… Continue reading Bebo Named Top Performing Social Website
Motorola is launching a new handset which will allow users to watch TV on-demand while they are on the move.The Motorola Mobile TV DH01 media player has a high quality 4.3 inch wide screen that supports up to 16 million colours. It also includes a five-minute memory buffer for pause during live TV viewing.Navin Mehta,… Continue reading Motorola To Launch Mobile TV Handset
IPC Advertising has promoted Amanda Wigginton to the new role of director of insight, after she took a leading role in launching a host of new IPC Insight initiatives in 2007.As IPC’s group head of insight, Wigginton recently spearheaded the launch of The Origin Panel, a 7,500-strong women’s panel, and Green Matters, which explores consumers’… Continue reading IPC Promotes Wigginton To Insight Director
The number of UK consumers searching for post-Christmas sales online more than trebled during the 2007 holiday period, according to new research from online intelligence service Hitwise.Hitwise said that there were 249% more UK internet searches for the term ‘sales’ for the week ending 29 December 2007 than for the comparable week in 2006.There was… Continue reading Searches For Post-Christmas Sales More Than Trebled In 2007
IPC Southbank is relaunching its leading kitchens title, 25 Beautiful Kitchens, with a new look and amended title – Beautiful Kitchens.The new version shall be available from the February 2008 edition, and will include more pages of real-life, high-end kitchens together with at least 20 case studies per issue and an informative news section.Commenting on… Continue reading IPC Relaunches Beautiful Kitchens
IPC Southbank has announced that it is to sell Practical Parenting magazine to Magicalia.The latest ABC figures, for January to June 2007, show that Practical Parenting had a total circulation of 38,945 copies, down from 43,465 for the same period a year earlier.Jackie Newcombe, managing director of IPC Southbank, said: “Southbank’s strategy is to appeal… Continue reading IPC Southbank To Sell Practical Parenting
ITV1 has announced a major schedule overhaul, starting from 12th January, which includes Coronation Street now having two episodes on a Friday evening.As a result, the channel’s most popular show will no longer air on a Sunday. Fellow soap Emmerdale will also be dropped from Sundays and will instead run for 60 minutes on a… Continue reading ITV1 Overhauls Schedule
According to the recently released ChoiceStream 2007 Survey of Viewer Trends in TV & Online Video, 55% of US TV viewers watch some type of video on their computers, mobile devices or digital media players. It added that 66% of these consumers are watching at least one hour per week through these alternatives. Video-watching on… Continue reading Over 55% Of US TV Viewers Watch On Alternative Devices