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British Gas London is to become the first ever client to place a sponsored editorial feature into Time Out‘s Reporter section.The deal, which kicks off mid-September 2006 and will run weekly until mid-March 2007, is part of a new press package created and negotiated by Carat Sponsorship, which will also include a presence on Timeout.com,… Continue reading British Gas In Time Out Sponsorship Deal

ITV has taken steps to generate new revenues, creating the role of head of mobile within the broadcaster’s Consumer team.Former vice president of interactive and telephony at Fremantle, Melissa Goodwin, has taken up the position, which will see her being responsible for ITV’s mobile strategy and for growing new revenues from the platform.Reporting to Jane… Continue reading New ITV Appointment Boosts Mobile Strategy

Haymarket Magazines, the consumer publishing and website division of Haymarket Group, is forming a new digital leadership team to speed up its development as a multi-platform media company.The leadership team’s commercial head will be Jim Murray-Jones, who joins Haymarket from Auto Trader as digital publishing director.Murray-Jones will be joined by digital editorial director Mark Payton,… Continue reading Haymarket Magazines Forms Digital Leadership Team

It was a good Monday night for BBC One, with Eastenders pulling in just over eight million adult viewers in the 7.30pm timeslot, giving the channel a more than 43% viewing share at the time.ITV1’s Emmerdale managed to gain 7.2 million adult viewers at 7pm, a 42% viewing share, whilst Holby City on BBC One… Continue reading Panorama Expose Lures 4.9 Million To BBC One

UTV has announced that it no longer intends to pursue its merger proposal with SMG, owner of Virgin Radio.UTV said that in reaching its decision the board took into account the interim results of SMG, announced on 13 September 2006, and the ongoing weakness in the advertising market faced by the ITV network.The city code… Continue reading UTV Withdraws SMG Merger Proposal

Nick Manning, the chief executive of Manning Gottlieb OMD and OMD UK, is to leave the agency. According to reports in the trade press, Nick Manning, who founded Manning Gottlieb Media with Colin Gottlieb in 1990, is expected to leave OMD next Spring. MGM was renamed Manning Gottlieb OMD in February 2002 following MGM joining… Continue reading Nick Manning Set To Leave OMD

Nearly 40 million digital households will be added in 2006, bringing the global total to 183 million, according to a new report from Informa Telecoms & Media. Informa Telecoms & Media estimate that digital penetration of TV households will reach 16% by the end of this year. According to the Global Digital TV – 6th… Continue reading Digital Penetration Of TV Households To Reach 16%

The Ryder Cup will be shown on Sky Sports HD, skysports.com and Sky Mobile TV, as well as in standard definition on Sky Sports 1 and interactively with Sky Sports Active, making it the first single major event to be shown live across this range of platforms.Sky Sports says it will offer the most comprehensive… Continue reading Ryder Cup To Be Shown Across Multiple Sky Platforms

Ofcom has announced the appointment of Thomas Prag as the new chair for the Ofcom Advisory Committee for Scotland, with immediate effect.Prag has been a member of the Advisory Committee for Scotland since 2004. He was involved in setting up BBC Radio Highland in Inverness and subsequently was founder managing director at Moray Firth Radio… Continue reading New Chair For Ofcom Advisory Committee Scotland

WPP has agreed a deal with US digital video recorder company TiVo which will see it broadcast advertising on its personal video recorder (PVR) service.WPP’s GroupM media agencies (including MindShare, MediaCom and Mediaedge:cia) are involved in the deal, which includes an agreement to buy a minimum amount of advertising.The TiVo PVR includes features, such as… Continue reading WPP Signs Deal With TiVo