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Dawn Airey has left ITV with immediate effect to join RTL Group in a senior position that will include becoming chairman of Five.Airey has been at ITV for just eight months (see Dawn Airey Confirmed As ITV Director Of Content), where she has been managing director of the global content division and was recently promoted… Continue reading Dawn Airey Leaves ITV For RTL

Virgin Media has announced a partnership with the BBC to launch the iPlayer onto its TV platform.Viewers using BBC iPlayer on Virgin Media will be able to watch full screen pictures at full quality on their television set without the need for downloading.As of today, Virgin Media customers will be able to catch up on… Continue reading iPlayer To Launch On Virgin Media

Sky added 56,000 customers in the first quarter of 2008, taking its total number of subscribers to 8.9 million. The satellite broadcaster, releasing results for its third quarter, said that Sky+ households grew by 262,000, to 3.4 million, while broadband customers were up 229,000 to reach 1,428,000. The company added that it added 43,000 high-definition… Continue reading Sky Adds 56,000 Customers In Q1

Revenue from mobile media and entertainment (MME) services in the US will more than double during the next five years, according to the latest research from Analysys Mason. US MME services (excluding messaging, and mobile browsing and data charges) generated US$3.1 billion in revenue in 2007, and Analysys Research forecasts that revenue will grow to… Continue reading US Mobile Media Revenues To Double During Next Five Years

Guests representing a number of agencies and sales points attended MediaTel Group’s launch of DELTA, its new booking and trading system for online media, at the Century Club in London this morning.After a lively panel session focused on the structure of agencies and media owners in the digital world, Alison Chadwick, DELTA’s business director, gave… Continue reading MediaTel Group Launches DELTA

The Times is to launch a prepaid payment card, following on from the ones offered by the Daily Mirror and the Sun.The Times MasterCard prepaid card and ‘eccount’ is being launched by Tuxedo Money Solutions, which has provided similar cards for the News Of The World and the Sun, said a report on MediaGuardian.co.uk.The service… Continue reading Times To Launch Prepaid Payment Card

Ofcom could fine ITV a record £4 million following a six-month investigation into premium rate phone-in deception on its shows, according to a report.MediaGuardian.co.uk reports that the proposed fine is £4 million, although the final figure has not been set yet.If ITV is fined this amount, it will double the previous record, handed down to… Continue reading Ofcom Could Fine ITV £4m

Publicis Groupe has reported revenue growth of 8.2% for the first quarter of 2008, to €1.06 billion (£830 million). The company said that it expects good growth this year, driven by its digital and media businesses and growth from emerging markets where it has operations. The falling US dollar hit revenues by around €61 million,… Continue reading Publicis Reports Revenue Growth

Taylor Nelson Sofres (TNS) is in talks with Germany’s GfK over a nil-premium merger which would create the world’s second largest market information group by revenue. The merged group would have a combined valuation of over £1.4 billion and would be renamed GfK-TNS. Shareholders of GfK and TNS would each hold 50 percent of the… Continue reading TNS And GfK In Merger Talks

Hitwise, the online intelligence service, has revealed that the top 100 Google internet properties sent over one third of all internet traffic to websites in the UK during March 2008.A custom category consisting of the 100 most visited web properties in the UK that are owned by Google accounted for 36.55% of upstream traffic to… Continue reading Over One Third Of UK Internet Traffic Comes From Google Sites