Last year was an eventful one for the UK radio industry, with mixed RAJAR results, declining ad revenues and the second national digital multiplex playing on the minds of relevant industry players.At the beginning of the year, GCap’s 95.8 Capital FM was rebranded as Capital Radio, shifting its music policy towards less repetition and focusing… Continue reading End Of Year Round Up: Radio

IPC Media has revealed its biggest magazine launch ever, Look, in a joint venture with Groupe Marie Claire.The venture is set to make its way into the women’s weekly market with the backing of an £18 million investment over the next two years as well as a major retail and advertising campaign.It was rumoured late… Continue reading IPC Media Looks To New Women’s Weekly

Celebrity Big Brother dropped more than one-and-a-half million viewers on its second night, with footage of the celebrities’ first night in the house netting an average audience of around 4.6 million adults.Channel 4 took a 20.7% viewing share in the timeslot, whilst Just The Two Of Us on BBC One took an 18.5% share and… Continue reading Celeb BB Drops More Than 1.5 Million Viewers On Second Night

Time-shifted and place-shifted viewing were the television buzzwords of 2006, with an increased emphasis on the likes of mobile devices, IPTV, PVRs, VOD and VoIP.Discussion surrounding the imminent digital switchover heightened, ITV suffered its fair share of set-backs and broadcasters panicked over advertising and Ofcom rulings as well as the shifting of viewers from the… Continue reading End Of Year Round Up: Television

More than 6.2 million adults tuned in to Channel 4 last night as the latest bunch of celebrities clambered up the Big Brother staircase and into the lions den.Channel 4 took a 27% viewing share in the timeslot for the start of series five of Celebrity Big Brother, which is set to run for three… Continue reading Bizarre Mix Of Celebs Draws 6.2 Million To C4’s BB

The return of the seminal mid-90s This Life gang for a one-off special ten years on from the original series lured an average of 3.2 million adult viewers to BBC One last night, giving the channel a 14.2% audience share at the time.The once influential drama, set around a group of 20-somethings living together in… Continue reading This Life Less Ordinary

During the third quarter of 2006, 88 million picture messages (MMS) were sent throughout the UK, equating to an average of almost one million per day throughout July, August and September, according to the Mobile Data Association.October’s total was the highest yet, with 30 million picture messages sent across the networks. Earlier this year, the… Continue reading First UK Picture Message Figures Show 88 Million Sent In Q3

Readership figures for national daily newspapers in Britain have fallen year on year for the six-month period to October, slipping by more than 5%.All titles in the Mid-Market and Popular sectors were down, with just the Daily Telegraph and the Independent in the Quality sector boosting their readerships.The Sun remained the most read paper in… Continue reading NRS National Newspaper Round-Up: October 2006

As technology blossoms at a frightening rate and media platforms meld into one another, BT’s vision for the future of television broadcasting trickles onto the market, barely visible to media professionals let alone the general unit buying public…BT Vision, the telecommunications giant’s Internet Protocol TV service, crept onto the market at the beginning of this… Continue reading Long Time Coming – BT’s Vision

Daily Newspaper MarketReadership figures for national daily newspapers in Britain have fallen year on year for the six-month period to October, slipping by more than 5%.All titles in the Mid-Market and Popular sectors were down, with just the Daily Telegraph and the Independent in the Quality sector boosting their readerships.The Sun remained the most read… Continue reading NRS National Newspaper Round-Up: October 2006