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Christian O’Connell has signed a new two year contract with Virgin Radio that will keep him at the station until the end of 2009.He joined Virgin Radio in January 2006 from Xfm and his current deal would have expired at the end of this year.The new deal comes shortly after Paul Jackson, Virgin Radio chief… Continue reading Christian O’Connell Signs New Deal At Virgin Radio

Silent Witness was the winner in the 9pm timeslot last night with a peak of 5.6 million adult viewers (a 27.4% share of the audience).The disturbing detective show easily beat ITV1’s reality show Hell’s Kitchen, which features Marco Pierre White putting a selection of celebrities through their paces in a real pressure-cooker environment.The ITV show… Continue reading Silent Witness Wins It For BBC One

The BBC’s hit series Who Do You Think You Are? is to get a spin-off magazine and a website to coincide with the start of its new series on September 6.Wall to Wall have licensed the use of the brand and programme content to BBC Magazines Bristol for the new magazine and website.Claire Hungate, director… Continue reading Spin-Off Magazine And Website For BBC Family History Series

The US outdoor advertising industry maintained a 7.9% growth rate in the second quarter, equalling $2.2 billion in total ad dollars, according to the Outdoor Advertising Association of America (OAAA). This means that the industry has now sustained an 8% annual growth rate for several years in a row, with each quarter building on a… Continue reading US Outdoor Advertising Sustains Growth Rate

Emap Advertising has today announced that it is to be the first UK company to use new technology that enables it to feature interactive advertising in in-stream online videos.Emap Advertising has partnered with Adjustables, which has developed the new advertising technology, to promote Halo 3, the new game from Microsoft Xbox, in FHM Entertainment videos.The… Continue reading Emap Advertising To Use Interactive Technology In Online Videos

BSkyB is mulling over the idea of launching a standalone broadband service which would not require subscribers to sign up to one of its pay-TV services.The new service, which could launch under the Picnic Broadband brand, is still in a testing phase and has no set launch date.The broadcaster recently announced that its broadband customer… Continue reading BSkyB Could Launch Standalone Broadband Service

Sunday Telegraph editor Patience Wheatcroft has resigned after 18 months in the job, meaning that the paper has its fourth editor in just over two years.Wheatcroft will be replaced by Ian MacGregor, deputy editor of the Daily Telegraph, who left his job as deputy editor of the London Evening Standard a year ago.No reason was… Continue reading Wheatcroft Resigns As Sunday Telegraph Editor

A new planning tool which aims to detail the cross-platform readership of local newspapers has been launched today, giving data on 800 of the UK’s 1,100 local newspaper websites.The Newspaper Society’s (NS) Media Portfolio Database, which is described as a “work in progress”, will initially use traffic data directly from publishers, according to a report… Continue reading Local Newspapers Get New Planning Tool

New research from eMarketer projects that local online advertising spending in the US will reach $2.9 billion in 2007. The online market research firm points out that is still only 13.4% of the total internet ad market. David Hallerman, eMarketer senior analyst and author of the new report, Local Online Advertising: Measuring the Market, said:… Continue reading US Local Online Advertising To Reach $2.9 Billion

Tiscali is to make its TV service available to nearly five million UK homes and plans to raise this figure to 10 million by the end of 2007.Tiscali TV services will be available in Central, North and North West of England as well as the M25 ring for the first time.Tiscali has already signed a… Continue reading National Roll-Out For Tiscali TV