Virgin Media could begin the sale of its content division within the next few weeks.A sales memorandum is expected to be issued following a board meeting later this week after publication of its fourth quarter results on Wednesday, said a report in MediaWeek.Virgin Media’s content division, thought to be worth about £500 million, includes assets… Continue reading Virgin Media could sell content division in next few weeks

Redwood has signed a new contract with IT service company Fujitsu Services to launch a quarterly customer magazine and website to target the chief information officer (CIO) community.The first edition of the magazine, I, global intelligence for the CIO, will launch in April 2009 and will be delivered direct to CIOs across 10 European countries.Redwood… Continue reading Redwood to launch Fujitsu CIO magazine

UKTV History is to relaunch next Monday as Yesterday, accompanied by a new website, visityesterday.co.uk.The channel, which aims to present history in a more accessible form, will go live at 9am via Freeview, Sky Digital and the Virgin Media cable platform.The channel proposition and name was developed in-house, with Red Bee creating its on-screen identity,… Continue reading UKTV History relaunches next week

Channel 4 and Five are bidding for the final high-definition slot on Freeview.Channel 4 and S4C have made a joint application to Ofcom that would see an HD version of Film4 broadcast between 11am and 4am, with an S4C children’s service shown between 7am and 11am.The broadcaster said that the remaining three hours could then… Continue reading Channel 4 and Five bid for final Freeview HD slot

Egmont is launching a dedicated in-house customer publishing business, called CanDo, to provide bespoke book publishing for brands.The seven-strong CanDo team, will report to Gillian Laskier, group sales director at Egmont, building on earlier projects such as the Mr Men/Little Miss ‘free for every reader’ book promotion with the Mirror newspaper and on-pack offers such… Continue reading Egmont UK launches customer publishing business

ITV has said that more users than ever would recommend its flagship website to friends.A visitor profile survey of 4,268 UK adult visitors to ITV.com in December 2008 has shown that most sections of the site had increased their Net Promoter scores – a measure of loyalty whereby visitors are asked if they would recommend… Continue reading ITV.com users “would recommend site to friends”

New research from comScore has revealed that 79.8% of the UK’s total internet audience visited a social networking site in December 2008.Of the 282.7 million European internet users aged 15 and over who went online via a home or work computer in December, 211 million visited a social networking site – representing penetration of 74.6%,… Continue reading 79.8% of UK internet audience visited a social network in December

There were varying year on year declines in viewing share for all five of the main terrestrial channels in January, with BBC One and ITV1 falling by 1.0 and 1.1 percentage points respectively.All ViewingBBC One now has a viewing share of 20.7% following its year on year dip, while ITV1’s stands at 18.0%.There were a… Continue reading Television Viewing Round-Up – January 2009

Yahoo! has launched a new mobile service intended to be a highly-personalised mobile starting point to the internet.Yahoo! Mobile will be available on the mobile web, as an app developed for the iPhone, and as an app developed for smartphones from Nokia, RIM, Samsung, Sony Ericsson and Motorola as well as those powered by Windows… Continue reading Yahoo! launches personalised mobile internet service

Two new national commercial digital stations could launch if regulation in the sector is cut, according to a leaked report.The report, by Ingenious Consulting and commissioned by the RadioCentre, suggests that commercial radio could launch a 24-hour national news and speech station and a national music-based entertainment service on the DAB platform, said MediaGuardian.co.uk.However, for… Continue reading Two new commercial DAB stations could launch if regulation is cut