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Arqiva operated DAB multiplex, Digital One, has announced that 90% of the population of Great Britain now live within its coverage area.Digital One’s chief executive, Quentin Howard, said: “With the switch on of the 133rd transmitter in Whitby this week we broke another record and commercial radio is leading the way in delivering DAB digital… Continue reading Digital One Multiplex Now Covers 90% Of Britain

Former Radio 1 and 6 Music chief, Ric Blaxill, has joined Bauer Radio as a launch consultant, as the group plans further expansion of its portfolio of digital radio services.Following the launch of the new Heat Radio last September and with work underway on the launch of Closer Radio, the group says it is now… Continue reading Bauer Hires Blaxill For Digital Radio Push

GCap Media has unveiled a “radical but realistic” set of measures to boost profits and maintain long term growth for the company, which deal a significant blow to DAB digital radio.The new chief executive, Fru Hazlitt, confirmed the closure of digital stations theJazz and Planet Rock and the intended sale of the group’s majority stake… Continue reading DAB Dealt A Blow As Gcap Unveils Radical Measures

The Audit Bureau of Circulations and the National Readership Survey have initiated exploratory talks about possible areas for closer collaboration and co-operation.“Since both organisations have significant areas of overlapping interest in the newspaper and magazine markets it seems appropriate to initiate such a debate in order to ascertain whether there may be any benefits in… Continue reading ABC And NRS In Possible Collaboration

Yahoo! is reportedly seeking to restart merger discussions with AOL in a bid to fend off the $45 billion (£23 billion) hostile takeover bid from Microsoft. A report in today’s Times says that the internet giant and its advisers from US investment banks Goldman Sachs and Lehman Brothers have spent the past week looking at… Continue reading Yahoo! Could Restart Merger Talks With AOL

Only 10% of US adult broadband users have used an online download service either to rent or purchase movies, and most of them do so infrequently, according to new research from The Diffusion Group (TDG). “Online movie services have to date failed to gain a critical mass of users,” said Michael Greeson, president of TDG… Continue reading Only 10% Of US Adult Broadband Users Have Used Online Movie Services

Yahoo! could be about to restart merger talks with AOL as it seeks to fend off Microsoft’s $45 billion (£23 billion) hostile takeover bid.According to a report in today’s Times, Yahoo! and its advisers from US investment banks Goldman Sachs and Lehman Brothers have spent the past week looking at possible tie-ups with other firms.The… Continue reading Yahoo! Could Restart Merger Talks With AOL

BBC director general Mark Thompson has said that a download version of the iPlayer for Apple Mac users is to launch this year.The iPlayer is currently available in two versions: a program allowing users to download shows to their Windows PC and a streaming version available to all users.Writing in a blog posting on the… Continue reading BBC To Launch iPlayer Download For Macs In 2008

Hard bitten cop Gene Hunt returned to our screens last night in the follow up series to time travelling period piece Life On Mars, catching villains in ’80s London in Ashes To Ashes.Hunt (Philip Glenister) has been joined by a new time-warped sidekick in the shape of Alex Drake (Keeley Hawes), stranded in 1981 after… Continue reading Ashes To Ashes Leaves Competition For Dust

Nearly 80 million Americans (43% of the online population) have watched one of their favourite TV shows on the internet, up from 25% 12 months ago, according to new research from Solutions Research Group (SRG). A full 20% of the American online population said that they watch TV on the web on a weekly basis,… Continue reading 20% Of Americans Watch TV Online On Weekly Basis