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The legal battle between Sir Frank Lowe and Interpublic Group (IPG), his former employer, has finished with an out of court settlement. IPG filed a claim against Lowe after his breakaway launch of Red Brick Road in January last year, following which he won the Tesco advertising business from Lowe London, valued at £45 million… Continue reading Lowe And Interpublic Settle Legal Dispute

The chief executive of BSkyB, James Murdoch, could leave in the summer in order to join his father, Rupert Murdoch, in the US.A report in yesterday’s Mail On Sunday, claims that James Murdoch will move to News Corp in the summer and will be replaced at Sky by the head of Sky Italia, Tom Mockridge.The… Continue reading James Murdoch Could Leave Sky

Last night saw the return of high concept drama 24 to Sky One’s schedules, with CTU agent Jack Bauer returning from China to help save the US once again from terrorist threats.The season’s opening double bill attracted an average adult audience of 624,000 and 557,000 for the first and second episode respectively.This was comfortably ahead… Continue reading Jack’s Back To Defeat Cowell

The Channel 4 board of executives will meet today to discuss the Celebrity Big Brother furore and the broadcaster’s handling of the controversial events in the house.As the escalating race row between reality TV figure Jade Goody and Bollywood star Shilpa Shetty pushed this series’ viewing figures up – peaking at around 8.2 million adults… Continue reading Big Brother Controversy Could Force C4 To Rethink Remit

Sir Christopher Meyer, chairman of the Press Complaints Commission (PCC), has announced that the organisation has reached an agreement with publishers which will see it regulate audio-visual content, such as podcasts, on newspaper websites.Meyer was being interviewed on BBC News 24 where he welcomed the newspaper industry’s agreement to extending the PCC’s regulatory field, calling… Continue reading PCC To Widen Online Remit

Another racism row has broken out over a Channel 4 reality show, with Shipwrecked now the subject of complaints to Ofcom following racist comments made on last night’s programme.Shipwrecked, which was recorded five months ago, began yesterday evening and since it aired well over 40 people have complained to Ofcom after one of the contestants… Continue reading New Reality Racism Row For Channel 4

Helen Johnston, currently editor of Emap’s New Woman, has been appointed editor of IPC’s Now just months after overseeing a relaunch of the Emap title.Johnston has previously held senior posts at Grazia, Marie Claire and Cosmopolitan. She oversaw New Woman‘s revamp which saw it renamed NW following poor results in the latest consumer magazine ABCs.… Continue reading New Woman Editor Moves To Now

Web traffic to the blog pages of the top 10 online newspapers in the US grew 210% year over year in December, according to new research from Nielsen//NetRatings. The overall unique audience growth to these online newspapers was 9% year over year. Unique visitors to blog pages accounted for 13% of their December 2006 internet… Continue reading Online Traffic To US Newspaper Blog Pages Increases

Johnston Press has conditionally acquired the assets and titles of the Scottish Newspaper operations of Archant for a cash consideration of £11.2 million funded from existing bank facilities. The business comprises eight weekly titles, of which three are paid-for newspapers circulating in the North East of Scotland around Peterhead and Fraserburgh and five are on… Continue reading Johnston Press Acquires Archant Scottish Titles

Celebrity Big Brother‘s ongoing controversy once again bolstered the programme’s viewing figures, with more than five million adults tuning in for the latest update in the race row.As more players enter the debate, an eviction looms and the show’s sponsors, Carphone Warehouse, pulls the plug (see Carphone Warehouse Suspends Celeb Big Bro Sponsorship), Channel 4… Continue reading Viewers Flock To Race Row Big Bro