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The newly relaunched Times Online website has seen a 500% increase in traffic, which has caused technical problems leading to many people being unable to see the revamped pages.Users have complained that pages on the new site loaded either very slowly, or in some cases, not at all.In a report in the Guardian, Tom Whitwell,… Continue reading High Traffic Leads To Times Website Technical Problems

Real, the monthly women’s lifestyle magazine published by Essential Publishing, has closed after a large year on year decline in circulation.Real changed from a fortnightly to monthly format last month. At the last ABCs, covering January to June 2006, Real‘s circulation fell by nearly 60,000 copies year on year, or around 29%, leaving it with… Continue reading Essential’s Real Magazine Closes

Virgin Radio has teamed up with Renault Megane to launch a new interactive on air promotion to raise awareness of the new Megane Sport range.The week long promotion, negotiated by Carat Sponsorship, began yesterday on the Christian O’Connell Breakfast Show and is intended to appeal to the show’s predominantly 25-44 year old audience.The promotion will… Continue reading Virgin Radio Launches Renault Promotion

An HD for All campaign has been launched made up of a coalition of the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Sony, with the aim of getting high definition television made available on Freeview.At the moment there is not enough bandwidth available on the Freeview platform to support high definition channels.Ofcom has argued that HDTV channels… Continue reading Campaign Begins To Get HD On Freeview

ITV is to sell its 9.9% shareholding in Liverpool Football Club and Athletic Grounds at £5,000 a share. If the offer goes through it will result in cash proceeds of £17.4 million. Since the merger creating ITV plc (see ITV Merger Receives Final Green Light From Shareholders) in 2004, ITV has been carrying out a… Continue reading ITV To Sell Stake In Liverpool

Tiscali has revealed its plans for the roll out of its IPTV service, saying that it will be available in more than 10 million homes by the end of this year.Tiscali TV launches on 1 March 2007 when over 40,000 Homechoice subscribers will become Tiscali TV customers and will be able to receive broadband plus… Continue reading Tiscali Reveals IPTV Plans

ITV1 won the battle for peaktime Saturday night viewing, with Dancing On Ice proving to be the biggest ratings winner of the night.Saturday’s programme, which saw former Gladiators and TV-AM weathergirl Ulrika Jonsson voted off, attracted an average adult audience of 7.9 million.This was comfortably ahead of BBC1’s offerings of When Will I Be Famous… Continue reading ITV Has Ice Time With Saturday Viewing

Chrysalis, owner of Heart and Galaxy, could sell off its radio operations if it goes ahead with a strategic review.Chris Wright, the company’s founder and 26% majority shareholder, is coming round to a suggestion put forward by Schroder, the group’s second largest shareholder, that its radio business should be sold off, according to a report… Continue reading Chrysalis Could Sell Off Radio Operations

Dennis publishing has decided to change the name of its gambling magazine InsideEdge to InsidePoker.Launched in April 2004, and aimed predominantly at sports betters, InsideEdge was the first monthly betting magazine to have a national news stand distribution and the first to have an officially audited circulation figure.The magazine underwent a redesign in May 2005… Continue reading Dennis Renames Gambling Magazine

A report published today by the House of Lords European Union Committee criticises the EU Commission’s Audiovisual Media Services Directive for its attempt to introduce ‘burdensome and inappropriate’ regulation which it says could damage British industry.The EU’s proposals would see ‘television-like’ new media services come under the same European regulatory framework as traditional broadcasting.The European… Continue reading House Of Lords Criticises EU Media Directive