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Broadcasters should embrace online advertising rather than concern themselves with the perceived threat of it overshadowing the traditional ad model, according to Google chief executive Eric Schmidt.During a keynote speech at the broadcast technology exhibition NAB in Las Vegas, Schmidt said: “Don’t bet against the internet… find a solution that connects your content with this… Continue reading Broadcasters Should Embrace Online Advertising, Says Google Boss

A new forecast from eMarketer estimates that 46% of US broadband households in 2011 will subscribe to a VoIP service, equating to 41.3 million VoIP subscribers. Bob Macklin, senior analyst at eMarketer, said: “eMarketer expects approximately 30% of broadband households worldwide to subscribe to a paid VoIP service by 2011. “In addition to paid subscriptions,… Continue reading US VoIP Numbers To Increase

Yahoo! recorded an 11% decline in profits for the first quarter of 2007, to $142 million (£70.7 million). Revenues were $1,672 million for the first quarter of 2007, a 7 percent increase compared to $1,567 million for the same period of 2006. Susan Decker, chief financial officer, Yahoo!, said: “Our first quarter financial results reflect… Continue reading Yahoo! Sees Profits Drop

Channel 4’s Popworld spin-off magazine, Popworld Pulp, has folded after just two issues.The new music magazine had entered an already volatile market, where many titles had seen their circulations slide, and several titles, like the once unrivalled Smash Hits and Xfm’s X-Ray had closed in recent years (see Smash Hits To Close As Music Fans… Continue reading Popworld Pulp An Almighty Flop

BBC Sport is launching a new sports magazine show called Inside Sport, which will air for the first time on Monday 30 April at 11.05pm on BBC One.The show will be presented by Gabby Logan and feature guest panellists including Steve Bunce, Tony Livesey and Des Kelly.There will also be a second edition of the… Continue reading BBC To Launch New Sports Show

Sky News has announced that it is to introduce a new-look website this Thursday, heralding the first phase of the redevelopment of sky.com/news as a video-rich site.The design changes are intended to provide a synergy between the look of Sky News channel and sky.com/news, thus creating a user-friendly, easy to navigate site with a focus… Continue reading New Look Website For Sky News

A new report claims that the UK’s current and planned broadband infrastructure may not meet the future needs of the most intensive users and could harm the UK’s competitiveness. The report from the Broadband Stakeholder Group (BSG) says that the UK could be left behind as several key competitor nations are in the process of… Continue reading Challenges Ahead For UK Broadband

IPTV subscriber numbers in Europe and Asia are continuing to grow, and will reach 63.3 million by 2011, according to the new MRG report IPTV Global Forecast. MRG says that driving the market’s successful growth in the past 6 months is fast growth in Europe, especially France, Belgium, Spain, Italy and Eastern Europe; in Asia,… Continue reading IPTV Subscriber Numbers Continue To Grow

Google has signed a multi-year agreement with Clear Channel which enables the search engine giant to sell a guaranteed portion of 30 second advertising inventory available on more that 675 of Clear Channel’s AM/FM stations. across the US. The agreement will see Google Audio Ads advertisers receive national distribution, enabling them to reach specific audiences… Continue reading Google Signs US Radio Ad Agreement With Clear Channel

The national commercial digital radio network operator, Digital One, has announced plans for ten new transmitters.Digital One says that the project will result in the UK digital radio network extending to 90% of the British population.This will be acheived by adding sites in the Scottish Borders, Cumbria, the the Yorkshire Coast, Derbyshire and the South… Continue reading Digital One Reveals Plan For New Transmitters