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BBC One’s new thriller The Silence banked the all-important 9pm to 10pm peak-hour for the third night running last night.

Spending on new, first-run UK programming by the BBC, Channel 4, ITV and Five fell 6% between 2008 and 2009, new Ofcom figures reveal.

The Central Office of Information (COI) has appointed Simon Marquis as non-executive board director.

New RAJAR figures reveal that 20% of smartphone owners, or 1.4 million people, have downloaded a radio app.

BBC One’s new thriller The Silence secured the highest ratings during the 9pm to 10pm peak-hour once again last night with 4.6 million peak viewers.

Magna Global’s latest On-Demand Quarterly forecasts that video on demand will reach 65.4 million households by 2016.

Specialist children’s publisher Egmont is launching a Disney/Pixar Toy Story magazine, to coincide with the launch of the third film in the series.

RAJAR has appointed Jerry Hill as chief executive officer, succeeding Sally de la Bedoyere, who stepped down at the beginning of June.

Six in ten American adults now go online wirelessly using either a mobile phone or a laptop with a wireless internet connection, according to a May 2010 survey by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project.

BBC One’s new four-part thriller The Silence started on a high of 4.7 million viewers last night.