Magazine publisher Future has delivered “disappointing”financial results, having overspent in new acquisitions, after the group announced its profits were down by a third in its results to 30 September 2006.The publisher’s profits fell by a third to £13.7 million in the year to the end of September. Lower sales and ad revenues from its games… Continue reading Future Looks Ahead After Disappointing Financial Results

BT Vision, the communications giant’s long-awaited IPTV service, will launch to a sample of BT Broadband customers on Monday 4 December, with a wider roll-out early next year.Full details of the service, which combines Freeview channels with video-on-demand via broadband, will be revealed at the launch in London.BT has secured a variety of content deals… Continue reading BT Vision Trickles Onto Market Next Month

GCap Media has unveiled its new DAB digital radio station, theJazz, which will launch nationally at 9am on Christmas Day.theJazz will operate as a sister service to Classic FM, the UK’s most popular commercial radio station with 6.3 million listeners, and will aim to develop itself as a brand to include live concerts, CDs, books,… Continue reading GCap Jazzed Up With New Digital Radio Station

Pre-tax profits at GCap Media are down 32% year on year, according to the group’s interim results for the six months to 30 September 2006.The company made £8.4 million compared to £12.4 million in the same period last year. Flagship London station, Capital Radio, has seen its revenue down by £6.3 million year on year,… Continue reading Capital Radio Continues To Impede GCap Media’s Growth

The BBC has been shaken up by the shock announcement that the Corporation’s chairman, Michael Grade, has jumped ship to become executive chairman of ITV with immediate effect.The race to find Charles Allen’s replacement is finally over, after the appointment of Grade – a decision that no one in the industry was expecting.Various names have… Continue reading BBC Chairman Jumps Ship To ITV Top Job

Orange has extended its mobile distribution contract with BBC World, the corporation’s commercial rolling TV news channel available outside the UK, to eight new countries.BBC World will now be the only English language news channel to be streamed live to mobiles in Belgium, Poland, the Netherlands, Romania, Portugal, Jordan, Egypt and the Dominican Republic.Orange mobile… Continue reading Orange Extends Mobile TV Contract With BBC World

ITV1 dominated the weekend’s telly with I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here, X Factor and Coronation Street continuing to rate highly with viewers.Friday’s I’m A Celebrity.. took a peak of more than seven million adult viewers, an average of 6.6 million or a 31% viewing share. Over on BBC One, Have I Got… Continue reading Jungle Fever Gives ITV1 A Boost

Celebrity Love Island is no longer, after ITV1 director of television, Simon Shaps, confirmed the programme would be axed after the poor ratings of the last series.The z-list celeb fest finished its second series at the end of August, with the last episode drawing in by far its best audience figures of the series at… Continue reading Celebrity Love Island Is No Longer

In the UK, watching video online and on mobile devices is growing in popularity, with these people spending less time watching television in the traditional way, according to an ICM survey for the BBC.More than 2,000 people were questioned about their viewing habits, with 43% of British people who watch video from the internet or… Continue reading Popularity Of Online Video Leading To Less Time With Traditional TV

Trade press publication the Press Gazette has closed down after more than 40 years, due to its failure to find a new investor in the title.The Press Gazette‘s 20 staff were told late on Friday that they would be made redundant, after its financial future could not be secured.A statement on the title’s website read:… Continue reading Press Gazette’s Battle For Survival Ends