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It was the last in the current series of Who Do You Think You Are? last night, and the show had a peak audience of six million adults, a 29.8% share of the audience.Yesterday’s episode followed Olympic rowing legend Matthew Pinsent as he traced his family history, and an average of 5.9 million adults (a29.6%… Continue reading Pinsent Pulls In The Viewers For Who Do You Think You Are?

The BBC is set to air more repeats and less original programming, following plans to shrink the size of the corporation.Up to 1,800 staff will also be made redundant – primarily in news, BBC programme-making and regional centres. The BBC will also sell-off its flagship Television Centre, under the plans to make up a £2… Continue reading More Repeats And Job Losses At the BBC

Global Radio has pulled out of a joint venture with BSkyB to launch a radio version of Sky News.A deal was agreed between Sky and Chrysalis in March to rebrand London’s LBC News 1152 as Sky News Radio, however Global Radio, which acquired Chrysalis this summer, has decided not to go ahead with the plans.Sky… Continue reading Sky News Radio Plans Shelved

Channel 4 has signed a content deal with Disney-ABC International Television which will see US shows made available free of charge for 30 days on Channel 4’s video-on-demand channel 4oD.Viewers will be able to watch shows such as Ugly Betty and Desperate Housewives with ads on PCs via 4oD for up to 30 days after… Continue reading Channel 4 Signs On-Demand Content Deal

Search engine giant Google has reported a 41.6% rise in third-quarter pre-tax profits to $1.47bn. Google’s revenues for the quarter were $4.23, a 57% increase over third quarter 2006 revenues of $2.69 billion and a 9% increase over second quarter 2007 revenues of $3.87 billion. Revenues from the UK totaled $661 million, whilst total revenues… Continue reading Google’s Pre-Tax Profits Grow 41.6%

WPP has announced that its third quarter revenues rose 4.9% to £1.48 billion, with revenues in constant currencies up 8.1%. It predicts that growth will further accelerate in 2008 with the Beijing Olympics and US Presidential elections. The group reported constant currency growth of 5% in the UK, compared with 3.7% in the first half,… Continue reading WPP Third Quarter Revenues Up 4.9%

Last night saw the Alan Titchmarsh series The Nature Of Britain win the all important 9pm slot, with the BBC One show picking up a peak of 5.5 million adult viewers (a 26% share of the audience).It was a varied night on the box, with Heroes on BBC Two at 9pm grabbing a peak audience… Continue reading 5.5m Adults Watch Green-Fingered Titchmarsh

BBC News and BBC Worldwide are understood to have agreed a deal which will see advertising on the corporation’s international website, bbc.com.BBC Worldwide, the corporation’s commercial arm that oversees BBC.com, apparently came to an arrangement with BBC News last week, according to a report on MediaGuardian.co.uk.The report quotes unnamed sources as saying that BBC Worldwide… Continue reading BBC International Website Could Get Ads

Future Plus and O2 have launched a premium retail magazine to support sales and drive customer experience.The magazine, called blue, has been developed in conjunction with Future Plus, a specialist publishing agency which is a division of Future, the UK’s leading consumer electronics publishing house.The 70-page monthly magazine has a print run of 500,000 and… Continue reading O2 Launches Retail Magazine With Future Plus

A new report from independent market analyst Datamonitor expects global active memberships in social networking sites to reach 230 million at the end of 2007.The report, The Future of Social Networking: understanding market strategic and technological developments, says that infrastructure providers, social network providers and wireless players stand to profit largely in the near term.Ri… Continue reading Social Networking Site Memberships To Reach 230 Million