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In the United States in 2011, $128 billion in travel will be sold online, according to new a new report from JupiterResearch. The JupiterResearch report US Travel Forecast, 2006 to 2011 says that 38% of travel revenue will be made online in 2011. Higher fares and an increase in people flying have driven total air… Continue reading US Online Travel Spending To Reach $128 Billion

Strictly Come Dancing on BBC One once again proved more popular than ITV1’s The X Factor, being watched by more adult viewers for both the main programme and the results programme on Saturday night.The first instalment of the ballroom dancing contest was seen by an average of 8.4 million adults, a 43% audience share, whilst… Continue reading Strictly Come Dancing Wins More Viewers Than X Factor

The top 10 advertisers in the UK cut their spending on television by 11% year on year in the third quarter of 2006, according to new figures from Nielsen Media Research. TV expenditure is £857 million this year, down 8.9% from £941 million in Q3 last year, whilst spending by the top 10 advertisers is… Continue reading Top 10 UK Advertisers Cut TV Spending

News Corporation recorded operating profit of $851 million for the first quarter, a 6.4% fall year on year, although the corporation’s online revenues continued to show growth. The decline in operating profit was due to due to a decline at its film division 20th Century Fox. Revenue for News Corp’s global newspaper division was down… Continue reading News Corp Operating Profits Decline

Emap Radio has been awarded the new FM local radio licence for Liverpool and will launch CityTalk, the group’s first all-speech service.Emap beat off competition from nine other applicants including UTV, Chrysalis and GCap, to be awarded the licence by regulator Ofcom (see Talk Radio Looks Likely For Liverpool).The licence covers an adult population (aged… Continue reading Emap Radio Wins Liverpool FM Licence

Amongst US television households with digital video recorders (DVRs), more than 78% of all viewers who watch recorded broadcast primetime shows within a week play them back within two days and 84% play them back within three days, according to new research from Nielsen Media Research. Nielsen says that among viewers age 18-49, 76% played… Continue reading 78% Of US DVR Households Playback Shows Within 1 Week

Over the past three years, Sky has conducted various research to analyse the effect Sky+ has had on television viewing, following the doom merchants claiming that PVRs would cause the death of the 30-second spot.Lucy Bristow, Sky Media, presented a whistle stop tour through this research at the Media Research Group conference in Vienna today.Using… Continue reading Sky Research Aims To Maximise Brand Exposure

The growing new media industry in the UK could be damaged by the EU’s Audio Visual Media Servies Directive, according to the House of Lords EU Committee.The committee has written to Shaun Woodward MP, minister for the creative industries and tourism, to set out its concerns. The letter is timed to inform the European Council’s… Continue reading EU Directive Could Damage New Media In The UK

Classic FM has achieved record figures for its website following its relaunch two months ago.In October, more than a quarter of a million unique users visited the site making a total of 2,495,362 page impressions, easily beating the figures the site achieved before its relaunch.The record numbers for the site follow its relaunch in September,… Continue reading Classic FM Website Achieves Record Figures

BT’s recorded revenue of £4,941 million for the second quarter 2006, up 4%, whilst its half year revenue was £9,805 million, up 3%. Its new wave revenue, coming from businesses such as networked IT services and broadband, was £1,736 million for Q2,up 21%, and representing 35% of total revenue compared with 30% last year. Half… Continue reading BT Q2 And Half Year Results Announced