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GCap Media’s Xfm will launch a unique interactive online radio player next week, which will enable listeners to custom make their own version of the radio station.Mi-Xfm, which will allow users to build and personalise their own station with their own type of music, has been created by the New Media team at GCap Media… Continue reading Xfm Gets Innovative With Interactive Online Radio Player

Ids has today announced the launch of the first 30-second spot advertisement on Telewest’s video-on-demand (VoD) service.Ids has secured an agreement with Sony which will see Fallon’s 30-second explosive paint ad for Sony Bravia streamed on the Telewest VoD service.Telewest’s customers who subscribe to premium VoD content will have the opportunity to view the current… Continue reading Sony Ad First To Stream On Telewest VoD Service

Johnston Press saw like-for-like print advertising revenues decrease by 8.0% for the five months ended 30 November 2006. The regional paper group added that if fast growing digital revenues were included this decline would reduce to 7.4%. In a trading update for the second half of the financial year ending 31 December 2006 , Johnston… Continue reading Ad Revenues Continue To Decline For Johnston Press

Channel 4 programmes will soon be simulcast on BT Movio, BT’s wholesale service for UK mobile operators to combine live TV and digital radio content onto mobile phones.The broadcaster’s content will be streamed both to mobiles and home television sets, having previously been available as “Short Cuts”, a made-for-mobile channel of programme highlights for the… Continue reading C4 To Simulcast On Movio

Global advertising expenditure is expected to grow at 6.0% in 2006, according to a revised forecast from Carat, up from its previous forecast of 5.7%. In the UK, Carat says that 2006 has been a tough year, with commercial television significantly underperforming in recent years in terms of audience delivery and revenue. Carat expects UK… Continue reading Carat Revises Global Adspend Forecast

Dawn Airey, Sky’s managing director of channels and services is to leave the company next year to take up a new position as chief executive of Iostar Limited.In a statement Sky said that Airey, who joined in January 2003, will continue to play a significant role at the company until Spring 2007 and will support… Continue reading Dawn Airey To Leave Sky

Young consumers are growing up believing that mobile content should be free, according to new research from NMA.The study of 1,500 children aged 6-13 years old found that the tween generation are avid consumers of mobile data like mobile internet browsing and mobile video, although they are reluctant to pay for content.Almost a third, 29%,… Continue reading Youngsters Want Free Mobile Content

SMG has confirmed that it has received a further approach from UTV regarding a possible merger of SMG and UTV, and has entered into discussions with the group. In a statement SMG said that its search process for a new CEO has been suspended while merger discussions progress. The SMG board also reported that good… Continue reading UTV And SMG Confirm Merger Talks

Freeview is the “unexpected triumph of Britain’s digital changeover”, according to a new study published today by the European Media Forum.The study predicts that the format is on course to overtake Sky as Britain’s leading home broadcast supplier.The platform has exceeded expectations since its launch in 2002 and has sold 13 million set-top boxes to… Continue reading Unexpected Triumph For Freeview

One in 10 Freeview households will not have permanent access to the digital terrestrial TV service’s full range of channels after analogue switchoff, according to media regulator Ofcom.After switchoff in 2012, Ofcom said that 10% of the country would not be able to watch three of the six Freeview multiplexes – bundles of channels –… Continue reading Switchover To Affect Freeview Platform