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A Labour MP has asked the government to step in as the football row continues between Setanta and the free to air broadcasters today.MP John Grogan said the culture secretary should put football in the category of listed events to guarantee football highlights on free to air television, following doubts over whether England’s World Cup… Continue reading MP Calls For Government To Step In As TV Football Row Continues

Trinity Mirror is to close seven local papers and nine satellite offices in North Wales and the North West, putting 30 jobs at risk. In the summer, Trinity Mirror warned that advertising revenues were falling faster than at any time in the past two decades. The UK’s largest regional newspaper group said that it was… Continue reading Trinity Mirror To Close Seven Local Papers

Informa Telecoms and Media’s latest forecast predicts that 67 million digital TV households will be added worldwide in 2008. This figure will bring the worldwide total to 343 million, putting digital penetration of TV households at 24% by year-end. The North American penetration rate will exceed 77%, with Western Europe at 63%. A further 62… Continue reading 67m Digital TV Households To Be Added In 2008

After a slower start, the United States has caught up with Western Europe in the adoption of 3G, with 28.4% of American mobile subscribers having 3G devices versus 28.3% in the largest countries in Europe. According to a new report from comScore, the number of US subscribers with 3G enabled devices has grown 80% to… Continue reading US Adoption Of 3G Devices Catches Up With Western Europe

More than 70% of UK digital video recorder (DVR) owners say that they cannot live without their machines, according to a new survey commissioned by NDS. According to the survey, which asked respondents to rank relative importance of a list of household appliances, apart from the washing machine and the microwave oven, no other household… Continue reading 70% Of DVR Owners Say They Can’t Live Without It

An average of just 887,000 viewers tuned in to see the England v Andorra match on Setanta Sports 1, the only channel airing the game on Saturday, securing them a 4.7% share of multi-channel homes.Last week, the channel controversially failed to reach a deal with ITV or the BBC over the rights to broadcast the… Continue reading 887,000 Tune In For England v Andorra On Setanta

Royal Mail is launching a new advertising and communications solution to get advertisers’ products and services into the homes of their target customers.Matter is a box that fits the standard dimensions of a UK household letterbox and contains a range of physical brand representations.More than 30,000 people registered to receive a Matter box after a… Continue reading Royal Mail Launches New Advertising Solution

BBC iPlayer is set to become available on mobile for the first time following a deal with Nokia.Nokia will feature the iPlayer as an application on the Nokia N96 handset from next month, allowing users to stream or download their favourite TV and radio programmes via Wi-Fi or 3G for free.Simon Ainslie, Nokia UK’s managing… Continue reading BBC iPlayer And Nokia Team Up In New Mobile Deal

Broadcasters are working on an ultra-high definition format called Super Hi-Vision, which has a resolution 16 times higher than a full HD image.The IBC show in Amsterdam is staging the first demonstration delivered by satellite, which is a collaboration between public broadcasters NHK of Japan, RAI in Italy and the BBC in the United Kingdom.The… Continue reading Broadcasters Demonstrate Super Hi-Vision

Little Britain USA, Matt Lucas and David Walliams’ American version of the hit comedy show, is launching on BBC One this autumn.Filmed entirely in the States, the series features familiar Little Britain characters in new sketches, as well as brand-new characters, all performed by Lucas and Walliams.Simon Fuller, executive producer, said: “Little Britain USA is… Continue reading Little Britain USA To Air On BBC One This Autumn