Cable giant NTL has announced the appointment of a new president and chief executive to oversee its merger with rival Telewest, giving Stephen Burch the combined role and moving incumbent CEO Simon Duffy to the position of executive vice chairman in the combined company.Commenting on the two moves, which are effective from 16 January 2006,… Continue reading NTL Appoints New CEO To Steer Telewest Merger

A barrage of prime time entertainment shows from ITV floored the BBC last night, as Emmerdale, Coronation Street, The Bill and The 2005 British Comedy Awards colluded to outgun the Corporation in every time slot.Emmerdale and Coronation Street got ITV’s evening off to a spectacular start, scoring average audiences of 7.9 million and 9 million… Continue reading Corrie And Comedy Help ITV Beat BBC

Radio giant GCap Media has appointed Duncan George as its new commercial director, assuming responsibility for all national and London commercial revenue streams following the company’s launch of a “root and branch” strategic review.Reporting to operations director Steve Orchard, George will focus on GCap’s strategy to drive long term profit growth through innovative client solutions,… Continue reading Duncan George Appointed Commercial Boss At GCap

Britain’s largest newspaper publisher, Trinity Mirror, has warned investors of a downward trend in media advertising next year, compacting a poor end to 2005, which saw the firm’s ad sales fall by 7.9% in the five months to November.In a pre-close trading statement to the City, Trinity said its group advertising revenues had fallen by… Continue reading Trinity Warns Of Downward Slide For Print Ads

Ocean Outdoor has secured the ad sales contract for London’s Clapham Tower, a soon to be launched “iconic” outdoor site near Clapham Junction.The three-dimensional site is located on private land where the Waterloo and Victoria train lines diverge. The station, which is the busiest in Europe, sees 2,550 trains each day, with high commuter through-traffic… Continue reading Ocean Outdoor Secures ‘Iconic’ London Site

Britain’s largest newspaper publisher, Trinity Mirror, has warned investors of a downward trend in media advertising next year, compacting a poor end to 2005, which saw the firm’s ad sales fall by 7.9% in the five months to November. In a pre-close trading statement to the City, Trinity said its group advertising revenues had fallen… Continue reading Trinity Warns Of Downward Slide For Print Ads

Cable giant NTL has announced the appointment of a new president and chief executive to oversee its merger with rival Telewest, giving Stephen Burch the combined role and moving incumbent CEO Simon Duffy to the position of executive vice chairman in the combined company. Commenting on the two moves, which are effective from 16 January… Continue reading NTL Appoints New CEO To Steer Telewest Merger

BSkyB’s chief operating officer, Richard Freudenstein, is to leave the company next year to return to his home country, Australia, following the launch of Sky’s high definition (HD) TV service. Freudenstein joined Sky in 1999 as the company’s general manager, before being appointed chief operating officer the following year. The outgoing TV boss will continue… Continue reading Sky COO To Step Down In New Year

A new forecast from Informa Telecoms & Media claims SMS messages will remain a key revenue driver for the mobile industry in the next five years, despite growth in enhanced messaging services such as multimedia messaging (MMS), mobile email and instant messaging (IM). According to Informa, person to person (P2P) messaging will continue to represent… Continue reading SMS To Remain Revenue Driver Despite Advanced Rivals

New statistics from internet analysts Hitwise show UK shoppers leaving more of their festive shopping to the last minute this year, with internet usage figures revealing visits to sites in the Shopping & Classifieds category reaching a new peak of 14.85% of all internet visits last week. While Hitwise reports a week-on-week increase of less… Continue reading Online Shopping Sees Festive Rush Left To Last Minute