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Discovery’s Quest channel is set to be the first solus website sponsor of Freeview during May.Quest will be the first of the Discovery channels to air on the digital terrestrial TV service when it launches on May 14.As part of the new partnership, the Freeview website will feature a number of adverts on the homepage,… Continue reading Quest to sponsor Freeview website

Carphone Warehouse has agreed a £236 million deal to buy the UK operations of Italian internet service provider Tiscali. Carphone Warehouse, which currently provides broadband services under its TalkTalk brand and also owns AOL UK, will be the UK’s largest home broadband provider with 4.25 million subscribers when the deal is finalised at the end… Continue reading Carphone Warehouse to buy Tiscali’s UK operations

Carphone Warehouse is set to buy the UK division of Tiscali for £236 million in a bid to create the UK’s largest residential broadband provider.The takeover, which is expected to be completed next month, will see Tiscali UK merge with TalkTalk – Carphone Warehouse’s ISP that serves around 4.25 million homes in the UK.Charles Dunstone,… Continue reading Carphone Warehouse is set to buy Tiscali UK

thelondonpaper racked up losses of almost £13 million and nearly doubled the size of its overdraft to over £26 million in the 12 months to the end of June 2008.News International’s NI Free Newspapers subsidy, which was specifically set up to publish the Murdoch-owned freesheet, reported a pre-tax loss of £12.9 million, according to accounts… Continue reading thelondonpaper cuts losses but doubles overdraft

Total US advertising expenditures declined 4.1% year on year in 2008, to $141.7, according to new data from TNS Media Intelligence. TNS found that ad spending during the fourth quarter of 2008 plunged 9.2% against the same period in 2007. Jon Swallen, SVP research at TNS Media Intelligence, said: “The ad market at 2008 year… Continue reading US ad expenditures fall 4.1% year on year

Sir Alan Sugar’s on-going quest for The Apprentice pulled in the highest ratings during the all-important 9pm to 10pm peak-hour last night with more than 8.1 million peak viewers.Around 7.8 million average viewers tuned in to watch the aspiring entrepreneurs test their sales skills in the North-West of England, only to find another one of… Continue reading The Apprentice comes up trumps

Rupert Murdoch said he plans to charge users to read The Times‘ and The Sun‘s online content following the success of the Wall Street Journal‘s pay model.Murdoch said he would test the pay model on his stronger titles, in a similar way he charges people for the WSJ’s online business news, and if it proves… Continue reading Murdoch set to charge for online content

JCDecaux has revealed that UK street furniture and billboard revenues declined in the first quarter of 2009. Chief executive of JCDecaux, Jean-Charles Decaux, predicted a group-wide revenue decline of 15% for the first half of 2009, as the company posted a revenue decline of 11.9% in Q1. Across the group, the company’s street furniture revenue… Continue reading JCDecaux sees Q1 decline in UK street furniture and billboard revenues

Guardian Media Group chief executive Carolyn McCall believes that the Guardian could charge for some specialist content on its website.Speaking at this week’s FIPP World Magazine Congress in London, McCall said that sections such as MediaGuardian.co.uk could eventually see users paying for the content.“More people are looking seriously at how they can make money charging… Continue reading Guardian could charge for online content

Channel Five’s owner RTL has announced its interim results statement for the first three months of the year, which claims that Five “underperformed” in the UK TV ad market.The pan-European TV broadcaster said Five’s ad spend was down by more than 17% year on year in Q1 2009 and that TV advertising “declined by double-digit… Continue reading RTL unveils Five’s Q1 performance