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Michael Jackson’s death continued to dominate the media world last night – the coverage of his star-studded memorial service in LA pulled in more than 6 million terrestrial viewers in the UK alone.BBC Two’s Michael Jackson’s Memorial Live, which was broadcast in place of its usual line-up of early evening shows including Eggheads and Bargain… Continue reading Overnights: Michael Jackson’s memorial watched by over 8 million

The Local Radio Company has been forced to announce job cuts as it confirms plans to close headquarters in High Wycombe.TLRC’s chief executive William Rogers confirmed plans to close the office yesterday and said that while, in some cases, the company hopes to deploy staff to other areas of the business, redundancies would also be… Continue reading The Local Radio Company to close HQ

ITN’s multimedia video production operation is set to supply branded video content to the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday‘s website network Mail Online.The new partnership will see ITN On supply celebrity and lifestyle videos, branded news, business and showbiz news as well as film reviews and celebrity interviews to Mail Online.ITN On currently produces… Continue reading ITN to supply branded content to Mail Online

Reed Business Information is selling its B2B travel division, including magazines Travel Weekly and Travolution, to entrepreneur Clive Jacobs.He has agreed to buy the magazines and website Gazetteers.com, as well as associated online services and events, for an undisclosed sum.The former publishing director of Reed Business Information’s travel division, Simon Ferguson, will run the newly… Continue reading Reed Business Information sells B2B travel business

Recommendations by personal acquaintances and opinions posted by consumers online are the most trusted forms of advertising globally, according to the latest Nielsen Global Online Consumer Survey. The Nielsen survey, of over 25,000 internet consumers from 50 countries, shows that nine in every ten internet consumers worldwide (90%) trust recommendations from people they know, while… Continue reading New research reveals most trusted forms of online advertising

Of the 1.1 billion people age 15 and older worldwide who accessed the internet from a home or work location in May 2009, 734.2 million visited at least one social networking site during the month, according to new research. The comScore report said that this represents a penetration of 65% of the worldwide internet audience.… Continue reading 734m people visited social networks in May

BBC One’s new five-part Torchwood – Children of Earth programme, which is due to air every night this week, started on a high last night with more than 6 million peak viewers.The sci-fi drama, a Doctor Who spin-off starring John Barrowman, pulled in 5.9 million average viewers and a 25.8% audience share during the all-important… Continue reading Overnights: New Torchwood starts on a high

US broadcaster ESPN is launching a new UK channel on 3 August to show its 46 Premier League football matches.ESPN bought the rights for the games after Setanta failed to keep up its payments to the league (see ESPN wins rights to 46 Premier League matches).The channel, which will also show some US sports which… Continue reading ESPN to launch UK sport channel in August

Telegraph Media Group has unveiled plans to trial a new free newspaper in a bid to attract younger, more upwardly mobile readers.The Friday, which will have a distribution of 150,000 copies and will launch in conjunction with Gordon’s gin, is Telegpraph Media Group’s first free title.The Daily Telegraph publisher plans to hand out copies of… Continue reading TMG to launch a free newspaper

Shares in behavioural targeting company Phorm have plummeted after BT pulled out of launching its controversial tracking technology.Phorm’s shares were down 40% by lunchtime yesterday as news about BT’s decision to drop Webwise, a system that tracks the internet habits of customers to deliver targeted ads, started to spread.BT said it needs to focus its… Continue reading Shares in Phorm plummet