February saw several forecasts which predicted the emergence of internet protocol television (IPTV) as a mainstream force, with uSwitch.com stating that the platform is set to take off in 2007. USwitch.com said that IPTV is changing the way consumers watch television, with the average UK broadband user already spending 30 minutes a week downloading films… Continue reading INSIGHTanalysis: Media Healthcheck – February 2007

The BBC has joined forces with YouTube to create branded BBC channels on the website, operating under separate BBC and BBC Worldwide agreements.The partnership will see clips of new BBC shows and specially commissioned promotional content linked to popular series such as Doctor Who and Life On Mars, aired on YouTube.At launch, the YouTube community… Continue reading BBC Does Deal With YouTube

Future’s Fast Car magazine is having its biggest ever giveaway as it celebrates its 250th issue.The giveaway includes an exclusive Demon Tweeks 2007 catalogue that has 240-pages of essentials for Fast Car fans to transform their fast-road motors.Fast Car readers will also get a free Donnington Park show guide and an exclusive money off voucher… Continue reading Fast Car Giveaway For Issue 250

GCap Media has announced the appointment of Pete Simmons as group programme director, content/digital.Simmons, who was previously group head of programmes at Chrysalis Radio, will have a dual role at GCap Media. He will be responsible for ensuring that the broad range of content produced from all the parts of GCap’s business – such as… Continue reading Simmons Joins GCap Media

Sky has appointed Sophie Turner Laing to the position of managing director, entertainment. Laing will report to chief executive James Murdoch.Ms Turner Laing takes responsibility for Sky’s entertainment content businesses, including Sky Movies, Sky One, Sky Two, Sky Three, Sky Arts, Sky Travel, Creative Services and the Creative Agency.Turner Laing takes over responsibility for these… Continue reading Sky Gets New Entertainment MD

Capital Gold is set to launch a new weekly podcast service from March 5 entitled David Jensen’s Celebrity Interviews.The content will be taken from the Capital Gold DJ’s Saturday morning show and will include both archive and current interview content with celebrities from the world of music, TV and film.The first podcast will launch with… Continue reading Capital Gold To Launch Podcast

Capital 95.8 has announced that Bam Bam will be joining the station to present a new weeknight show.Bam Bam’s show will broadcast Monday to Friday from 7pm-10pm. Launching on Monday 12 March.Capital 95.8’s programming director Scott Muller said: “Bam Bam is an absolutely exceptional and unique personality, and I’m incredibly excited he’s joining the Capital… Continue reading Bam Bam Joins Capital 95.8

ITV has been put in the spotlight following Channel 4’s Richard and Judy ‘You Say We Pay’ controversy, after Britain’s biggest broadcaster admitted to overcharging red button users by a combined total of £200,000 on eviction votes for The X Factor.ITV said it had discovered that viewers using the red button on Sky Digital remotes… Continue reading ITV Joins Vote Scandal List For X Factor Overcharging

The UK’s commercial radio representative body, the RadioCentre, has announced the appointment of Simon Redican as managing director of the Radio Advertising Bureau (RAB).Redican joins the organisation from News International where he was media account director of the Times solutions team. His appointment is seen as the next step in the overall re-energising of the… Continue reading RAB Appoints New MD

A new report from eMarketer forecasts that US spending on podcast advertising will grow nearly fivefold by 2011. In 2005, advertising spending on podcasting in the US was a mere $3.1 million, rising to $80 million in 2006, according to the online market research group. Podcast distribution and viewing mechanisms are proliferating, but even the… Continue reading US Advertisers To Increase Spending On Podcasts