Ofcom has handed the BBC the Freeview HD TV slot it was reserving for Five, after the RTL owned broadcaster was unable to resolve “key issues” relating to its application.

The growth of Channel 4’s non-public service broadcasting (PSB) activities could increase its market impact significantly, according to a report from MPs.

Guardian Media Group is preparing to write down its investment in Emap by between £100 million and £200 million, according to a report in the Sunday Times.

Reader’s Digest UK has received nine bids from potential buyers, according to the company’s administrators Moore Stephens.

More than one third of marketers already conduct some type of mobile marketing, with mobile websites and apps proving to be an equal draw to text messaging.

Soccer fans are in for a treat this summer, with ITV launching an ITV1 HD channel on Virgin Media and Sky in April, meaning that almost all World Cup games will be viewable in high definition.

The daily national newspaper market was down slightly period on period in February, by 0.3%, although year on year it suffered a 5.3% drop.

The mobile retail market is expected to exceed $12 billion by 2014, driven by increasing smartphone use.

Pre-tax profits have fallen 56% at regional publisher Johnston Press, to £43 million.

Almost 29% of US mobile subscribers went online via their mobile phones in an average month during the November to January 2009 period, according to new research from comScore.