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UKTV has announced the new channel brands for three of its key channels as Watch, GOLD and Alibi, which will launch on Tuesday 7th October.As announced in NewsLine in June, UKTV Gold is being rebranded as GOLD (see All UKTV Channels To Be Rebranded), which will stand for Go On Laugh Daily. It will become… Continue reading Watch, Alibi and GOLD: UKTV Rebrands Channels

BT Vision has tied up with Setanta to offer its premium sports channel for free with certain BT viewing packages.Its Bronze, Silver and Gold packages will now include Setanta Sports 1 as part of its offering – viewers will simple need to pay the one-off viewing card cost of £10 to Setanta.The tie-up brings Premiership… Continue reading BT Vision Ties Up With Setanta

Centaur Media plc has seen profits grow over the past year, due to double digit growth in online revenues. In its pre-close trading update for the year ended 30 June 2008, it stated that results were anticipated to be in line with market expectations. Online revenue increased by 24% in the year and were coupled… Continue reading Double Digital Online Growth Boosts Centaur

GfK are reported to be in talks with private equity firm Cinven to make a joint bid for TNS. The battle for UK research group is developing following last weeks competing bid from WPP at £1.08 billion forcing GfK and TNS to cancel their planned nil-premium merger last week (see TNS And GfK In Merger… Continue reading GfK Aiming For Joint Bid for TNS

Bowmark Capital has published its second Entrepreneurs’ Index with the outlook becoming distinctly gloomy during the past six months. The Index is a survey of small to medium-sized businesses in the UK with tracks respondent’s levels of optimism, financial performance and prospects together with corporate activey and cattitudes tot eh canllenges and opporuties they face… Continue reading Bowmark’s Entrepreneurs Index Distinctly Gloomy

After a bad day in the stock market today, Trinity Mirror shares plunged down 18% in one day, taking the shares down to just 55.5p. According to reports on Brand Republic, the publishing company has lost 90% from its share price during the last year. Shares in July last year were up to ten times… Continue reading Trinity Shares in New Low

BT is investing £1.5 billion into a programme to give up to ten million homes super-fast Boadband by 2012.The roll out of the fibre-based broadband will be the UK’s largest ever investement into the broadband at speeds of up to 100 Mb/s with the potential for speeds of more thatn 1,000 Mbs in the future.The… Continue reading BT Plans Super-Fast Broadband

BSkyB has teamed up with Sony to launch a video-on-demand service on Sony’s handheld console, PSP, called Go!View.PSP users will be able to access video content via their PC by going to the Go!View website.The service has already secured content partners including Disney-ABC-ESPN Television, BBC Worldwide, Sony Pictures Television International, NBC Universal International Television Distribution,… Continue reading Sony and BSkyB Launch Go!View On PSP

The Q2 2008 Bellwether Report was released today, with the third consecutive quarter of cuts and to the greatest extent since 2001.Disappointing sales, rising costs and growing economic gloom were cited as reasons for companies cutting marketing budgets and it expects further cuts later in the year.All sectors within marketing have seen cuts, with the… Continue reading Q2 2008 Bellwether: Largest Marketing Budgets Cuts Since 2001

MediaGuardian has released its annual guide on the top 100 most powerful people in the media industry.Its aim is to “take a snapshot of the individuals who run or influence the UK media in 2008” and it is now into its eighth year.Top of the pile is Sergey Brin and Larry Page, who are the… Continue reading MediaGuardian Releases Its Top 100 For 2008