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ITV and Setanta have been awarded exclusive rights to the FA Cup tournament as well as England’s home football matches.This will come as a huge blow to the BBC and BSkyB, who have reportedly offered over £400 million for the television rights, beginning August 2008. ITV and Setanta Sports bid separately, which is thought to… Continue reading ITV & Setanta Win FA Cup & England Home Matches

Ian Lewis, director of broadcasting at BSkyB, has been promoted to the position of director of Sky Movies and Sky Box Office.Lewis replaces Sophie Turner Laing, who last month was made managing director of entertainment (see Sky Gets New Entertainment MD).Lewis will now be responsible for Sky’s new genre-defined subscription movie channels (see BSkyB Makes… Continue reading Sky Gets New Movie Boss

Dermot O’Leary has been chosen to replace recently axed Kate Thornton as presenter of X-Factor.The presenter currently hosts Channel 4’s Big Brother’s Little Brother and is said to be flattered by the two-series offer.Speaking about his appointment, O’Leary said: “I’m really looking forward to working with Simon and the team on the kind of Saturday… Continue reading Dermot Has The X Factor

BT Vision has attracted just 5,000 customers since it launched in December 2006, although the telecoms giant says that this is entirely in line with expectations.The investment bank Morgan Stanley estimates that 40% of the 5,000 customers are employees of BT.The service launched to a sample of users on December 4 last year (see BT… Continue reading BT Vision Begins Slowly

Chrysalis Radio’s LBC 97.3 has brokered a sponsorship deal with the health food brand Alpro to promote the Soya-based product on its weekday lifestyle show presented by Jim Davis at 1pm.The sponsorship, which is intended to raise awareness of Alpro as a positive lifestyle choice, will run for three months from Monday April 2.The exclusive… Continue reading LBC 97.3 Signs New Sponsorship Deal

The impending merger between US satellite radio companies XM and Sirius will create a monopoly which would potentially violate US antitrust regulations, according to a recent report. The independent study by Criterion Economics claims to offer “concrete evidence and analysis to some of the most important questions that have plagued lawmakers since the merger was… Continue reading Opposition Grows Against US Satellite Radio Merger

BT has signed a range of new deals for its BT Vision Download Store. The Download Store is a non-exclusive online video store available to all of the UK’s 14 million broadband customers – regardless of which internet service provider they use.New content announced includes Warner Bros’ titles such as the entire film series of… Continue reading BT Announces New Deals For Download Store

As England fans heckled Steve McClaren at halftime, the Tartan Army and more than 2.2 million adult TV viewers got behind Big Eck and his boys as they courageously fought world champions Italy in the battle to qualify for Euro 2008.Despite a 2-0 defeat, Scotland put in a valiant effort, gaining BBC Two a 10.8%… Continue reading Scotland The Brave No Match For Sugar

The Audit Bureau of Circulations Electronic will now release web traffic figures for national newspaper websites on a fixed date each month.ABCe has announced publication dates for the reports, which were initially sporadic, with next on April 26.Monthly web statistics will be published alongside the ABC print newspaper figures in the recently launched Group Product… Continue reading ABCe To Regularly Release Web Traffic Figures For National Newspapers

Just days after its launch, the glossy weekly magazine launched by former Mail On Sunday journalist Christena Appleyard, So London, has folded after just two issues.A statement from the company reads: “There is no long term future for the title in the current marketplace.”Reports have suggested that the inexperience of the magazine’s publisher was largely… Continue reading New Glossy Weekly Shuts After Two Issues