Satellite broadcaster, BSkyB, has appointed i-level to help drive continued growth in sales of Sky Digital and Sky+ via its sky.com website. Over 7.7 million customers in the UK and Ireland now receive Sky Digital, with the number of Sky+ customers more than doubling to 770,000 in the 12 months to 31 March 2005. Around… Continue reading BSkyB Continues To Drive Sky Digital And Sky+ Growth

Media super-regulator, Ofcom, has awarded the FM commercial radio licence for Banbury to CN Radio, selecting the company’s bid from three applications received by the closing date in February.Ofcom’s licensing committee selected CN for approval following its application for “a locally focused, adult contemporary radio station with news information and features of particular interest to… Continue reading CN Radio Scoops Banbury FM Licence

Viacom’s digital poster sites will go live for the first time this week, with Tottenham Court Road tube station the first underground site to feature the digital billboards.The 66 digital sites, either side of the escalators at the station, will enable advertisers to create animated posters that move or feature changing text and images. All… Continue reading Viacom Breaks New Ground With Digital Tube Posters

Virgin Radio confirmed to NewsLine today that sales director Lee Roberts has left the station by mutual agreement.This comes weeks after the appointment of a new chief executive Fru Hazlitt, who joined from Yahoo, where she had been managing director, having previously been head of sales at Capital Radio (see SMG Strengthens Hold Over Virgin… Continue reading Sales Director Roberts Leaves Virgin

Paris based advertising group, Havas, has continued its turnaround which began in the first quarter of 2004, both in terms of organic growth and Net New Business, revealing a growth of 1.4% in the first quarter of 2005, double what it achieved in the same period of 2004. Havas attributed this strong increase to the… Continue reading Havas Continues Strong Performance

Carat, the world’s largest independent media agency network, has forecast global advertising expenditure growth to be 4.9% in 2005, approximately in line with its previous estimation in September of 5.0% (see US Online Ad and Marketing Spend To Reach $14.7 Billion in 2005). The media agency attributes its slight revision to the price of oil,… Continue reading Carat Predicts Global Adpsend Growth Of 4.9% In 2005

Less than a third of UK consumers have heard of the term “digital switchover” with a significant proportion not knowing where to turn to for advice, according to media watchdog Ofcom’s new Consumer Panel Study. The research showed that out of more than 2,500 consumers surveyed, just 10% said they were aware of the digital… Continue reading UK Public Unaware Of Impending Digital Switchover

This year’s Sony Radio Academy Awards, held last night, saw the BBC sweep the board winning 21 of the 32 awards on offer, with BBC Radio 2 winning the station of the year prize. Meanwhile, Xfm’s breakfast DJ, Christian O’Connell, won a hat-trick of prizes showing the success of his irreverent morning show.See below for… Continue reading Sony Radio Awards Sees BBC Sweep Board

Haymarket Publishing has confirmed the purchase of Media Week, Eye magazine, Packaging News and AV magazine from Quantum Business Media, ending speculation that has mounted ever since the company announced the sale of some of its most lucrative titles last year.Quantum was put up for sale as a whole in November 2004 with an estimated… Continue reading Haymarket Closes Deal On Media Week Purchase

Consumer magazine publisher, Hachette Filipacchi, has announced the launch of Psychologies magazine, extending the title’s reach to the UK after successes in France, Italy and Spain.Psychologies is the first magazine to be launched by Hachette Filipacchi UK since the company was established in 2002. The new edition will be entirely an British version, editorially produced… Continue reading Hachette To Psych Out Competition With New Launch