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Last week saw Virgin Media extend the deadline for receiving formal takeover proposals, saying it is delaying the sale of the company to give buyers time to make proposals “in a more stable debt market”.As well as announcing the deadline extension (Full Story), Virgin Media also revealed that its operating income for the three months… Continue reading Media In The City: Virgin Media Extends Bid Deadline

The big winner in the ratings battle last night was The Inspector Lynley Mysteries on BBC One at 8pm.The return of the detective show had a peak of 4.3 million adult viewers (a 23% share of the audience) and an average of 4.1 million stayed tuned throughout its hour and a half running time.On ITV1… Continue reading New Series Of Inspector Lynley Gets 4.3m Adults

About 1,000 offshore gambling websites, including William Hill Casino, Betfred Casino and Poker and Littlewoodscasino.com, have been banned from advertising in the UK.The ban comes into effect on 1 September when the Gambling Act comes into force and applies to any gambling companies operating outside the European Economic Area.Culture Secretary James Purnell said: “I make… Continue reading Government Bans Offshore Gambling Websites

IPC Media has launched a new online women’s lifestyle portal called Goodtoknow.co.uk, which will act as the central portal of IPC Connect’s weekly titles Pick Me Up, Woman’s Weekly, Now and Woman’s Own.The launch of the site, which is being edited by June Smith Sheppard, follows the launch of IPC’s home portal housetohome.co.uk in May… Continue reading IPC Unveils Women’s Online Lifestyle Portal

A new report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project claims that the growing adoption of broadband combined with a push by content providers to promote online video has helped to pave the way for US mainstream audiences to embrace online video viewing. According to the report, 57% of online adults in the US… Continue reading US Audiences To Embrace Online Video

The Daily Mail & General Trust’s national newspaper division, Associated Newspapers, has bought a network of job sites for £10 million plus a three-year earn-out. The acquisition of JobsGroup.net, which operates a portfolio of successful niche job sites such as JustEngineers.net, JustConstruction.net, and JustRail.net, will form part of the Associated Northcliffe Digital (AND) network of… Continue reading Associated Newspapers Buys Job Sites Network

ITV1’s controversial film Malcolm and Barbara: Love’s Farewell finally hit our screens last night, but it was beaten in the 9pm ratings battle by Waking The Dead and Big Brother.The ITV documentary, which had a peak of three million adult viewers (a 16.4% audience share), has been much mentioned in the news recently, with claims… Continue reading Three Million Watch Malcolm And Barbara

Alex Salmond, Scotland’s first minister, is to create a new commission intended to implement a strategic way forward for TV broadcasting and production in the country.In a speech given yesterday at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh, Salmond announced that Blair Jenkins will leave his current job as BBC Scotland head of news and… Continue reading Scotland To Get TV Commission

GCap Media has joined the list of broadcasters axing premium-rate phone-in competitions for profit, after Icstis ruled that a competition run on its One Network stations earlier this year broke the regulator’s rules.Icstis has fined GCap £17,500 and issued a formal reprimand after ruling that the company’s ‘Secret Sounds’ competition contravened its rules.Listeners were asked… Continue reading GCap Joins C4 In Axing Profit-Making Phone-In Comps

iTouch, the operator of the phone services for Deal or No Deal, has been fined £30,000 by Icstis, the premium rate phone line regulator, for misleading viewers.Icstis issued iTouch with a formal reprimand after it found that the Deal or No Deal competition had mislead viewers because the show had been pre-recorded but the competition… Continue reading Deal Or No Deal Phone-In Operator Dealt £30k Fine