Virgin Media and Setanta Sports are in senior level talks about launching a rival channel to Sky Sports News, according to reports in Broadcast.A source at Setanta told the publication that talks had begun between the companies and that teaming up would be an obvious strategy.“It makes a lot of sense,” said the source. “Setanta… Continue reading Virgin And Setanta Join Forces For Sky Sports News Rival

Telecoms giant Vodafone has admitted that 11,500 text votes for Saturday’s Dancing On Ice final on ITV1 were not counted due to a technical error.The votes were not delivered to ITV until Monday morning and customers involved will be refunded the cost of their texts this week, the company said.ITV has said that these delayed… Continue reading Dancing On Ice Finale Misses Out On 11,500 Text Votes

Consumer awareness of digital switchover is still low, with a “drastic boost” needed, according to the head of communications at price comparison website uSwitch.com.Steve Weller’s comments follow last week’s announcement by Ofcom suggesting that less than half of Britons are still using the traditional analogue technology on their televisions.Research carried out by uSwitch suggests that… Continue reading Consumers Not Switched On To Switchover

Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, stood up at 12.30pm to reveal his tax and spending plans for the next year, in what is likely to be his last budget presentation. Key points of Iron Gordon’s eleventh budget are as follows…Inflation will fall to 2% this year. In 2008 and 2009 inflation will also be… Continue reading Budget 2007 Coverage – The Chancellor’s Speech Live

A large part of US video game usage is taking place when people would traditionally be watching television, according to a new report from Nielsen.The State of the Console report shows that penetration of video game consoles in the US grew nearly 19% during the fourth quarter of 2006, with consoles now in more than… Continue reading US Console Usage Mirrors TV Peak Times

The Broadcast Committee of Advertising Practice has proposed new regulations that could signal the end of noisy television advertising.BCAP is set to launch a consultation with broadcasters, advertisers and the public to examine whether to introduce a standard means of monitoring the sound levels of ads.Broadcasters are not allowed to raise the volume of broadcasts… Continue reading Noisy Ads Could Be A Distant Whisper

Former Radio 1 presenter Lynn Parsons has signed for Smooth Radio’s London station, along with Mike Allen of LBC.Parson’s will present the four-hour evening slot between 8pm and midnight, Friday to Sunday, whilst Allen will be on air at the same time on Monday to Thursday.Parson’s has previously worked at Radio 1, Capital Radio, Virgin… Continue reading Smooth Radio Gets Two More DJs

Chrysalis has released interim results for the six months to 28 February 2007, stating that Chrysalis Radio is expected to show a decline in revenues. In a trading update released today, Chrysalis said that owing to the challenging UK radio advertising market, its radio division is expected to show a decline of around 9% for… Continue reading Chrysalis Radio Expects Decline In Revenues

Independent News & Media (INM) recorded revenues of €1.6 million, up 1.5% on 2005, with this reflecting underlying revenue growth in excess of 5% for both advertising and circulation within the publishing division. However, the company saw its profits after tax fall by 13.4% to €198.4 million. INM said that revenue gained from the €62.7… Continue reading Independent News & Media Records Revenue Increase

Online research firm eMarketer estimates that online ad spending will reach $36.5 billion in 2011. Emarketer says that at varying points over the next three years, Forrester Research, JupiterResearch, Oppenheimer, PricewaterhouseCoopersn and Borrell Associates actually see positive growth slipping into single digits for the first time since the dawn of internet advertising in the 1990s.… Continue reading Online Adspend To Increase