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ITV1’s popular Cops with Cameras series secured the highest ratings during the peak-hour last night with 3.1 million viewers.The penultimate episode, which followed police in Aberdeen on the last Friday before Christmas, pulled in more than 3.1 million viewers and a 16% average audience share.Meanwhile, BBC One’s two-part special of Waking the Dead, with guest… Continue reading Overnights: Cops with Cameras races to the top spot

Associated Northcliffe Digital (AND) has launched the first phase of its ‘Local People Network’ hyper-local websites.The roll-out, of an initial 23 local community websites in the South-West of England, covers areas such as Falmouth and Clifton with between 10,000 and 50,000 inhabitants.A further twenty plus sites are due to launch in the South-West of England… Continue reading Associated Northcliffe Digital launches hyper-local sites

Rupert Murdoch has hinted at plans to charge iPhone and Blackberry users for access to the Wall Street Journal, which is currently offered as a free mobile application.Murdoch has asked users if they would be willing to pay a subscription for the mobile version of the WSJ, as he hopes to introduce a micropayment scheme… Continue reading Murdoch to charge mobile readers

IPC Connect’s women’s weekly Pick Me Up has got a new look, backed by a three month sponsorship of Virgin Media TV’s Living 1 and Living 2 chat programmes.Creative agency Quiet Storm has been appointed to support the new look which includes a new layout and features.Oswin Grady, Pick Me Up publishing director, said: “Consumer… Continue reading New look for Pick Me Up

Newspaper firm Gannett, which owns regional publisher Newsquest in the UK, is to cut 1,400 US jobs in the coming weeks as a result of the sustained fall in the advertising market. Bob Dickey, president of Gannett’s community publishing unit, told staff yesterday in an internal memo that most job losses would take place by… Continue reading Gannett to cut 1,400 US jobs

Five’s long-running CSI:Miami series secured the highest ratings during the all-important 9pm to 10pm slot last night with almost 4 million peak viewers.The crime drama, which has performed consistently well for channel Five, attracted 3.7 million average viewers and a 18.1% audience share, putting it ahead of its rival terrestrial channels throughout the peak-hour.At the… Continue reading Overnights: Five’s CSI tops the ratings

Commercial radio needs to consolidate and diversify in order to overcome the challenges posed by the recession, according to former BBC head of strategy Mark Oliver.Speaking yesterday at The Radio Academy’s Radio Festival in Nottingham, Oliver, chief executive of media advisors Oliver & Ohlbaum Associates, said that radio stations should also concentrate on branded content… Continue reading Radio Festival: Consolidation is key for commercial radio

ITV’s chief executive Michael Grade said the broadcaster’s proposed partnership with the BBC to share regional news premises and footage is now unlikely to happen.ITV has critised the proposal in recent months, despite signing a memorandum of understanding with the BBC in March, particularly over the lower value they expect to get from the deal,… Continue reading Grade: BBC and ITV’s regional news partnership is unlikely

Hulu, NBC Universal and News Corp’s US Online TV platform, has confirmed plans to launch in the UK saying it is the company’s “number one priority”.Speaking at the IEA’s Future of Broadcasting conference in London, Hulu’s SVP Johannes Larcher said the UK is “very ready” for a service like Hulu, according to reports.“We are talking… Continue reading Hulu’s UK launch is company’s “number one priority”

June saw the release of a study by the Interactive Advertising Bureau Europe revealing that European online advertising was worth €12.9 billion in 2008. Search remains the leading format in Europe, the report found, with a year on year growth rate of 26%, accounting for 43% of online ad expenditure in the 19 countries measured… Continue reading INSIGHTanalysis: Media Healthcheck – June 2009