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Blake Chandlee, Yahoo! commercial director, has been poached by social networking website Facebook top be its UK sales director and first UK employee.A report from Media Week says that Chandlee – a panelist at MediaTel Group’s ‘Future Of TV’ seminar on Tuesday (see TIOTI Founder Joins MediaTel ‘Future Of TV’ Seminar Panel) – has left… Continue reading Blake Chandlee Leaves Yahoo! For Facebook

A new report from ABI Research has forecast that mobile broadband enabled consumer electronics devices will expand in 2008. There is a new class of devices emerging on the horizon: a convergence of everyday consumer electronics and mobile broadband, says ABI. Consumer electronics increasingly will include Wi-Fi for connectivity within the home and to the… Continue reading Mobile Broadband Consumer Electronics To Grow In 2008

It was the big one on Saturday afternoon, as England took on match favourites Australia in the quarter finals of the Rugby World Cup.As is usually the case when these two nations meet, there was no love lost between the sides, with Australia keen to avenge the final defeat of four years ago which saw… Continue reading 1.9 Million ABC1 Men Watch England Beat Australia

US internet advertising revenues for the first six months of 2007 were nearly $10 billion, setting another new record and representing a nearly 27% increase over the first half of 2006, according to the latest figures from the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). US internet advertising revenue totaled nearly $5.1 billion for the… Continue reading US Online Adspend Sets New Record

Globetrotting jet setter, Michael Palin, continued to entertain viewers with his New Europe series, gaining an average adult audience of more than 5.8 million for BBC One last night.Palin’s travels took him to Hungary and the Ukraine, where, as ever, he encountered colourful characters and explored the evolving regions of Britain’s newest neighbours.The episode, which… Continue reading Almost Six Million Stick With Palin’s Adventures

New research from Attentional has found that personal video recorders (PVRs) do not significantly affect viewing choices. Attentional says that according to surveys where respondents are asked about their viewing, viewers say that they watch more TV than they did before they got Sky+. However, the “peoplemeters” used by large continuous panels say that they… Continue reading PVRs Do Not Significantly Affect Viewing Choices

The big ratings winner last night was Who Do You Think You Are?, which followed Alastair McGowan as he traced his roots right back to the 18th century.With a name like McGowan it was no surprise to find that the TV funny man thought he had a fair bit of Scottish blood in him, but… Continue reading Who Do You Think You Are? Continues To Bring In The Viewers

Paul Cleghorn, co-founder of TIOTI (Tape it off the Internet) will join the panel for MediaTel Group’s ‘Future of TV’ seminar next Tuesday in London.Until early 2006, Paul ran boutique design agency Neuromantics, where he led R&D projects on broadband TV, social networking around TV and post-schedule TV EPG’s for the BBC as well as… Continue reading TIOTI Founder Joins MediaTel ‘Future Of TV’ Seminar Panel

O2, the mobile phone network operator owned by Spain’s Telefonica, is launching its residential broadband service on October 15.The company, which expects one million broadband users by 2010, is to offer heavily discounted internet deals to its monthly subscribers.The deals available to O2 mobile subscribers will range from £7.50 per month for an eight megabit… Continue reading O2 Launches Broadband Service this Month

BSkyB is to stop launching new channel slots on its satellite platform, citing finite set top box memory capacity.Sky said that it will “proceed with extreme caution” in the launch of the 100 or so TV and radio channels already on the electronic programme guide (EPG) launch queue.Nicola Bamford, director of channels and operations at… Continue reading Sky To Turn Down New Channel Applications