The future leadership of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation was being debated today, after the iconic media mogul’s son, Lachlan, announced his resignation from the family firm.Lachlan will leave his position as deputy chief operating officer by 31 August, although he will retain his role as a director, continuing to advise the company in several areas.Explaining… Continue reading Lachlan Murdoch Steps Down From News Corp

IPC’s film and music magazine, Uncut is celebrating its one hundredth issue and its highest circulation ever, with a star studded party over a three night residency at London’s 100 Club next month.Music acts involved include, Sons & Daughters, Adem, James Yorkston and Kaythryn Williams, with the gigs kicking off celebrations on the Wednesday, Thursday… Continue reading Uncut Celebrates 100th Issue And Circulation Success

The Media Research Group is to conduct a review of its direction and relevance, questioning its members and making changes to its remit in order to maintain a focus on the industry’s most pressing topics.The findings of the review will be presented at the MRG one-day conference in November, following qualitative research conducted by Quaestor… Continue reading MRG To Consult Members On Future Direction

Digital radio broadcaster and programme producer, UBC Media Group, has announced an increase of 39% in advertising revenues year on year for the first six months of 2005. The company’s fortunes have been boosted by a strong first quarter with trading “significantly” higher than last year. Speaking at the group’s annual meeting, John Hodson, chairman… Continue reading UBC Sees Strong Growth In Ad Revenues

Pearson Publishing, owners of the Financial Times and the Penguin books, has announced the appointment of Glen Moreno as its new chairman, with the new boss due to take up his post on 1st October. Moreno will succeed Pearson’s current chairman, Dennis Stevenson, who is retiring. The new chairman is currently the senior independent director… Continue reading Pearson Appoints Moreno As New Chairman

Europe has overtaken North America as the second largest broadband market in the world, with Strategy Analytics predicting total broadband penetration in Western Europe to reach 63% by 2010, with 93% of online households using broadband to access the internet. Strategy Analytic’s Europe Surges Ahead on Broadband report forecasts that, by the end of the… Continue reading Europe Overtakes North America In Broadband Penetration

June saw a new record for text messages, with a total of 86.7 million messages sent on average per day throughout the month, topping 2.6 billion messages in total, according to new figures from the Mobile Data Association (MDA). The MDA showed person to person texts sent across the UK GSM network operators last month… Continue reading June Sets Record For Number Of Text Messages Sent

Pay-TV provider Top Up TV has signed Setanta Sports to its portfolio of channels, initially offering the channel to its Scottish customers, but giving the channel the potential to reach more than five million Freeview households.Setanta, the exclusive live broadcaster of Scottish Premier League, will begin broadcasting to Top Up TV customers in the Scottish… Continue reading Top Up TV Brings Setanta To Scottish Freeview Homes

ITV has signed Yahoo! UK & Ireland to provide search technology, sponsored search and contextual advertising on its network of websites, including microsites for high-profile shows such as I’m a celebrity…Internet users visiting any site within ITV.com, such as the broadcaster’s Soaps, Motor or Football pages, will be presented with a Yahoo branded search box,… Continue reading ITV Signs Yahoo! For Search Solutions

Newspaper publishing group, Trinity Mirror, has increased its group revenue by 1.2% during the first six months of 2005, despite contending with a difficult advertising market, reflecting the slowdown of the UK economy since the beginning of the year. In its interim results published today, the Group revealed operating profit to be up 7.9% year… Continue reading Trinity Sees Revenue Rise Despite Difficult Advertising Market