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The last in the series of BBC One’s Bonekickers pulled in nearly 4.5 million peak viewers last night, with a 19% audience share between 9pm and 10pm.Channel 4’s Secret Millionaire triumphed again with over 4 million peak viewers, gaining just 3% less of the audience share than BBC One during the hour-long slot.ITV1’s Trinny and… Continue reading Bonekickers Ends On A High

The BBC is launching a new Gaelic digital television channel on September 19 called BBC ALBA.Going on air at 9pm, the channel has been co-funded by MG ALBA, formerly known as the Gaelic Media Service.It will cost £14 million with £10 million from MG ALBA and £4 million from the BBC.BBC ALBA will broadcast on… Continue reading BBC To Launch Gaelic TV Channel

Bauer Media’s Q magazine has appointed Matt Mason to the newly created role of senior editor as it gears up for an autumn redesign.The magazine has also secured a string of contributing editors – including Miranda Sawyer, David Quantick and Billy Bragg – in time for the unveiling of its new look on September 27.Mason… Continue reading Q Appoints Senior Editor Ahead Of Redesign

Carphone Warehouse is to sponsor the fifth series of ITV’s talent show The X Factor.The company sponsored the show last year having previously sponsored Channel 4 show Big Brother.However, it ended its association with the reality show following the Celebrity Big Brother racism row in January 2007 (see Carphone Warehouse Hangs Up On Big Brother).The… Continue reading Carphone Warehouse Secures The X Factor Sponsorship

Bauer Media and SnapNow have signed an exclusive six month partnership to launch a new on-the-go interactive advertising tool.SnapNow, the mobile visual seach technology company, has developed a technology to move interactive ads forward by removing the need for Quick Response codes to be embedded in the advertising copy.Bauer is set to benefit from the… Continue reading Bauer And SnapNow Join Forces To Launch New Ad Tool

BBC One stole the show last night, gaining the highest number of viewers compared to its rival channels from 8pm onwards, with only a short break for the second episode of ITV1’s Coronation Street between 8.30pm and 9pm.New Tricks continued to dominate the 9pm Monday evening slot, pulling in more than 8.3 million viewers with… Continue reading BBC Stole The Show With New Tricks

Bauer Media and Guardian Media Group are understood to be in talks with GCap and Global Radio over the acquisition of Midlands stations BRMB and Heart 106. Last week, the Office of Fair Trading announced that Global Radio will have to divest five radio stations in the Midlands, plus related Gold stations, to gain approval… Continue reading Bauer And GMG Could Buy Midlands Stations

The Local Radio Company is set to launch Jazz FM on October 6, after it secured a three year license deal with the Guardian Media Group (GMG).The relaunch was first announced in June this year as The Local Radio Company released its interim financial results (see Jazz FM Set For Autumn Return).The station was sold… Continue reading Jazz FM Set To Relaunch In October

BSkyB is to reduce the frequency of its four monthly customer magazines, including Skymag.The four titles – Skymag, Sky Sports Magazine, Sky Movies Magazine and Sky Kids – will move from 12 to 10 issues per year, starting from December.Skymag is delivered to Sky’s entire subscriber base, giving it a current ABC circulation figure of… Continue reading Change In Frequency For Sky Customer Magazines

Commercial broadcast TV had a record-breaking first six months of 2008, according to the latest figures from the Broadcasters’ Audience Research Board (BARB).The first half of the year saw total commercial impacts up 6% on the same period last year – 15% growth over the last five years.The UK watched 2.4 billion broadcast TV ads… Continue reading Record Six Months For Commercial TV