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ITV Play and This Morning will both have their interactive quizzes restored having been cleared by ITV’s internal review.ITV suspended all interactive programming last week following allegations that there had been irregularities regarding its premium rate phone lines (see ITV Suspends Premium Rate Phone-Ins).Dancing On Ice was shown on Saturday on ITV1, with its interactive… Continue reading ITV Review Clears Interactive Quizzes

One of the original reality TV programmes, Castaway, returned to BBC One on Friday with a new group of contestants spending three months on an idyllic New Zealand island.The castaways, who will have to grow and collect their own food and use the land and ocean to feed themselves, began their new lives on BBC… Continue reading Castaway Returns To BBC One

GCap Media has rebranded Capital Radio as Capital 95.8 – The Sound Of London, and will tonight launch a television advertising campaign.The ad is Capital’s first major TV push in over a year and will promote the rebrand which sees the station’s logo change to an amp volt in the shape of the River Thames.The… Continue reading Capital Radio Gets Name Change And Ad Campaign

The output of the UK economy in the three months ending in February was 0.5% higher than in the previous three months, according to a new report from the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR). This follows a revised figure from the three months ending in January, with the NIESR saying that the… Continue reading UK Economic Output Grows

The UK’s leading online media intelligence company, MediaTel Group, has announced the latest in its series of popular industry seminars, with the latest session focusing on the future of digital.The morning session, which combines a panel debate and an audience Q&A session, sees highly respected figures in the media air their views on the digital… Continue reading MediaTel Group Adds To Seminar Portfolio With Digital Session

ITV Play and This Morning will both have their interactive quizzes restored having been cleared by ITV’s internal review.ITV suspended all interactive programming last week following allegations that there had been irregularities regarding its premium rate phone lines (see ITV Suspends Premium Rate Phone-Ins).Although the ITV Play channel is still off-air, some of its programming… Continue reading ITV Review Clears Interactive Quizzes

Each week, NewsLine brings you a round-up of the latest news from the City affecting the media industry.The main media City news this week was all financial, with RTL, the owner of Five, announcing that it recorded growth in earnings of 12.3% in 2006 (Full Story).United Business Media saw revenues grow by 17% to £739.1… Continue reading Media In The City

Virgin Media will launch its own Freeview box, which could be a “stop gap” measure to provide digital TV ahead of its IPTV service to be launched next year, according to reports in the trade press.The company is thought to be considering several options, including a Freeview box combined with PVR, similar to its V-Plus… Continue reading Virgin Media Close To Launching Own Freeview Box

At the end of this month the fifth terrestrial channel will have been broadcasting for 10 years. During that time the landscape of British television has changed drastically.Sky Digital now dominates the pay-tv market, ITV Digital launched and collapsed, Ofcom replaced ITC and reality television is overtaking TV schedules around the world.During its early years,… Continue reading Five 10th Birthday – From Sunset Beach To Grey’s Anatomy

Consumers in the Asia-Pacific region will increasingly opt for higher-end set-top boxes that support personal video recorder (PVR) and high-definition features, according to a new study from ABI Research. This trend will be driven to a large degree by China, which will see the region’s largest increase in subscriber numbers. Serene Fong, broadband research analyst,… Continue reading Asia-Pacific Set For Growth In High-End Set Top Boxes