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Pre-tax profits at GCap Media are down 32% year on year, according to the group’s interim results for the six months to 30 September 2006.The company made £8.4 million compared to £12.4 million in the same period last year. Flagship London station, Capital Radio, has seen its revenue down by £6.3 million year on year,… Continue reading Capital Radio Continues To Impede GCap Media’s Growth

The BBC has been shaken up by the shock announcement that the Corporation’s chairman, Michael Grade, has jumped ship to become executive chairman of ITV with immediate effect.The race to find Charles Allen’s replacement is finally over, after the appointment of Grade – a decision that no one in the industry was expecting.Various names have… Continue reading BBC Chairman Jumps Ship To ITV Top Job

Claims that digital video recorders (DVRs), video-on-demand (VOD) and emerging online platforms will cause the death of TV and result in the loss of billions in advertising revenue are incorrect, according to eMarketer. Audiences are becoming increasingly fragmented with the changes in TV distribution and access, but more people will watch more TV and video… Continue reading DVR And VOD Will Not Kill TV

Pre-tax profits at GCap Media are down 32% year on year, according to the group’s interim results for the six months to 30 September 2006. The company made £8.4 million compared to £12.4 million in the same period last year. Flagship London station, Capital Radio, has seen its revenue down by £6.3 million year on… Continue reading Capital Radio Continues To Impede GCap Media’s Growth

The BBC has been shaken up by the shock announcement that the Corporation’s chairman, Michael Grade, has jumped ship to become executive chairman of ITV with immediate effect. The race to find Charles Allen’s replacement is finally over, after the appointment of Grade – a decision that no one in the industry was expecting. Various… Continue reading BBC Chairman Jumps Ship To ITV Top Job

BT Vision, the communications giant’s long-awaited IPTV service, will launch to a sample of BT Broadband customers on Monday 4 December, with a wider roll-out early next year.Full details of the service, which combines Freeview channels with video-on-demand via broadband, will be revealed at the launch in London.BT has secured a variety of content deals… Continue reading BT Vision Trickles Onto Market Next Month

UBC Media announced its new Digital Music Download commercial service will go live in London Q1 2007, with a full national launch in May 2007.The new technology, which Simon Cole announced last year at MediaTel’s Digital Radio seminar (see New Technology Offers Glimpse Of Radio’s Future), enables digital radio listeners to download tracks from radio… Continue reading UBC Announces Digital Music Downloading Launch

Broadband growth is slowing in the largest European regions, according to Screen Digest. In a study comprising telcos in the UK, Germany, France, Italy and Spain, Q3 growth was 5%, down on the previous quarter and a substantial decrease from the 11% growth seen in Q3 2005. A review of growth of the broadband DSL… Continue reading Broadband Growth Slowing In Biggest EU Regions

Orange has extended its mobile distribution contract with BBC World, the corporation’s commercial rolling TV news channel available outside the UK, to eight new countries.BBC World will now be the only English language news channel to be streamed live to mobiles in Belgium, Poland, the Netherlands, Romania, Portugal, Jordan, Egypt and the Dominican Republic.Orange mobile… Continue reading Orange Extends Mobile TV Contract With BBC World

Revenue for mobile gaming in the Asia/Pacific reached US$1.56 billion in 2005, with Japan and South accounting for around half of the region’s total for the year, according to In-Stat. Future growth drivers, however, will be the large, growing mobile markets of China and India. “While there is great growth potential with expected increases in… Continue reading Mobile Gaming in Asia Pacific Worth $1.56 Billion In 2005