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A high definition access group has started a campaign to make the television technology available to everyone in the UK.The push, which has been labelled HdforAll, has come from a group of broadcasters, retailers and manufacturers, who say that plans to auction off the airspace required for HDTV to work on the Freeview platform means… Continue reading Campaign Group Applies Some Pressure For HDTV Access

Aegis has announced that its total revenue increased 14.5% in 2006, to £996.9 million, up from £870 million in 2005. The group’s organic revenue grew 7.7%, with Aegis saying that it the company grew faster than the marketing services industry as a whole, as it has for each of the past ten years. Underlying operating… Continue reading Aegis Records 2006 Revenue Increase

The start date for the digital switchover has been announced today by Digital UK, with Whitehaven and the surrounding area of Cumbria having BBC Two switched off on October 17 this year.Speaking today, Ford Ennals, chief executive of Digital UK, said that the remaining three analogue channels will be switched off four weeks later on… Continue reading Digital Switchover Gets October Start Date

Cable TV set top box manufacturers enjoyed a record year in 2006 as cable operators around the world signed up millions of new digital cable subscribers, according to new research from In-Stat. Fuelled by a sharp rise in demand for cable set top boxes in China, worldwide digital cable set top box unit shipments increased… Continue reading Cable TV Enjoyed Record 2006 Worldwide

Richard Bacon, presenter of the Xfm drivetime show, is to leave the station at the end of the month, moving to BBC Radio Five Live.Bacon moved to Xfm in August last year (see Drivetime For Bacon In Xfm Reshuffle) having presented the drivetime show on Capital Radio.The presenter of the BBC Three Castaway spin-off, Castaway… Continue reading Five Live Gets Bacon

More than one million households converted to digital television in the three months to the end of December last year in the UK, according to a new report from Ofcom.According to the communications regulator, growth has been driven by another strong quarter for digital terrestrial television (DTT), with total sales of DTT equipment reaching 2.4… Continue reading More Than A Million UK Homes Switch To Digital TV In Q4 ’06

ITV Play, the quiz channel which has been under the spotlight recently because of concerns about premium rate phone-lines, has been axed and will be replaced by a new channel, ITV2+1.The channel was taken off-air last week as ITV carried out an internal review of its interactive services.Deloitte, the auditors carrying out the review, cleared… Continue reading ITV Axes Quiz Channel

Viacom Media is to sue search engine giant Google and its website YouTube for $1 billion, for illegal use of its shows.Viacom says that around 160,000 unauthorised clips have been uploaded to the video-sharing website YouTube and have been seen more than 1.5 billion times, meaning that the company has been deprived of advertising revenue.In… Continue reading Viacom Sues YouTube For Copyright Infringement

Viacom, owner of MTV, has filed a $1 billion (£520 million) lawsuit against Google concerning the activities of its video-sharing website, YouTube. Viacom has accused Google of “massive intentional copyright infringement” on YouTube, which the search engine giant bought last year for $1.65bn (see Google Acquires YouTube For $1.65 Billion). Viacom claims that around 160,000… Continue reading Viacom Files $1 Bn Lawsuit Against YouTube

Flagship BBC One children’s programme, Blue Peter, has joined the ever-growing list of shows to be immersed in the premium rate phone-in scandal.It has emerged that the classic TV format faked the winner of a viewer competition to raise money for the Blue Peter Appeal in aid of Unicef, after the phone lines failed.A technical… Continue reading Blue Peter Fakes Winner, Joins Phone-In Blacklist