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Lord Puttnam, one of the front-runners for the vacant BBC chairman role, has ruled himself out of the race to take up where Michael Grade left off. The deadline for applications was on Wednesday and Lord Puttnam has revealed, in an article in this week’s Spectator, that he has not applied for the role, despite… Continue reading Lord Puttnam Out Of BBC Chair Race

Channel 4’s controversial series of themed programmes, W*nk Week, has been postponed, as the broadcaster seeks to avoid any more bad publicity in the wake of the Celebrity Big Brother furore.The channel was to show three late night programmes, themed around the subject of masturbation, but the broadcaster has now taken all of the programmes… Continue reading Channel 4 Themed Week Postponed

It was standing room only at last night’s MRG evening meeting, as over 150 people packed in to hear a presentation on the IPA TouchPoints initiative, including suggestions for the product going forward including a topline “TouchPoints Lite” initiative.Lynne Robinson brought the room up to speed with how the initiative has gone so far, including… Continue reading MRG: TouchPoints Lites Up The Room

At today’s press conference announcing the latest RAJAR figures for Q4 2006, it was announced that RAJAR is on track to reveal the first results from the new diary survey for the second quarter of 2007, to be released in August.In addition, the new TNS/Arbitron Personal People Meter (PPM) panel has been set up, covering… Continue reading New RAJAR Diary Survey To Deliver Results In August

Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) telephone services, which in 2006 had less than 38 million subscribers worldwide, should have a subscriber base of over 267 million in 2012, according to a new study released by ABI Research. Michael Arden, principal broadband analyst, said: “”Hosted service providers, the pioneers of commercial VoIP, are going to grow… Continue reading VoIP To Reach 267 Million Subscribers Worldwide

Search engine giant Google recorded revenues of $3.21 billion for the quarter ending December 31, 2006, an increase of 67% compared to the fourth quarter of 2005 and an increase of 19% compared to the third quarter of 2006. Google-owned sites generated revenues of $1.98 billion, or 62% of total revenues, in the fourth quarter… Continue reading Google Revenues Reach $3.21 Billion

US advertising will grow 5.8% in 2007, according to the second annual report on ad spending from Outsell Inc. The study of US advertisers, who control about $6.5 billion of spending, shows that companies plan to increase their online spending by 18% this year, faster than for any other major media type. Advertisers also plan… Continue reading US Advertising To Grow 5.8% This Year

The BBC Trust has given the go-ahead to the Corporation’s iPlayer on-demand TV service, albeit with some significant changes.One of the changes proposed as part of the Trust’s Public Value Test includes limiting the storage time-frame for seven-day catch-up of individual TV shows to 30 days, rather than the BBC management’s requested 13 weeks.The Trust… Continue reading BBC Trust Approves iPlayer Service

The start of WAGs’ Boutique lured just 334,000 adults on average to ITV2 last night, giving the channel a 2% viewing share of the multi-channel television network, despite a considerable marketing push.London freesheet thelondonpaper, which has a circulation of 410,000, was yesterday wrapped in a full colour advert for the programme, designed to look like… Continue reading WAGs Fail To Wow For ITV2

Sky’s interim results for the six months ending December 31 show that pre-tax profits were down 4.6% from year on year to £395 million. However, revenue increased by 10% to £2,220 million, including £22 million from Sky Broadband and £77 million from Easynet Enterprise. The satellite broadcaster recorded net customer growth in the October-December period… Continue reading Sky Profits Down