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Mobile phone operator O2 has announced that it is to offer a broadband service starting from spring 2007.According to reports in the trade press, O2 has begun talks with BT and Cable & Wireless about the offering but as yet no deal has been brokered.The reports quote CEO Peter Erskine as denying that the company… Continue reading O2 To Offer Broadband Service Next Year

ITV shareholders are urging the company to appoint a new chief executive by Christmas, according to a report in the Guardian.The shareholders are apparently unhappy at the slow progress of the search for a replacement for Charles Allen.The report says that headhunters Zygos have widened their search for a new CEO to include continental Europe… Continue reading ITV Shareholders Want New CEO By Christmas

Owners of Smooth FM, Guardian Media Group, have applied to communications regulator Ofcom requesting a change in the format of the station.The station wishes to covert from its current focus of jazz, soul, blues and R’n’B to an easy-listening station for the over-50s, with GMG promising to retain the 45 hours of specialist jazz programmes… Continue reading Smooth FM Applies For Format Change

ITV shareholders are urging the company to appoint a new chief executive by Christmas, according to a report in the Guardian. The shareholders are apparently unhappy at the slow progress of the search for a replacement for Charles Allen. The report says that headhunters Zygos have widened their search for a new CEO to include… Continue reading ITV Shareholders Want New CEO By Christmas

Yahoo! is coming under increasing pressure to invest in more social networking as internet users move to sites such as MySpace and YouTube, according to analysts. Yahoo! could potentially be interested in bidding for Facebook, a smaller rival to MySpace. The pressure on Yahoo! follows the acquisition by Google of YouTube, the video sharing website,… Continue reading Yahoo! Under Pressure To Invest In Social Networking

The worldwide mobile phone market is edging ever nearer to one billion units shipped for the year, with a total of 254.9 million units shipped in the third quarter of 2006, according to IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker. Worldwide shipments of mobile phones were up 7.9% from the previous quarter and up an impressive… Continue reading Worldwide Mobile Phone Market Sees Record Shipments

Channel 4 programmes will be available on-demand to almost three million people after the broadcaster signed a deal with NTL Telewest.The three-year deal also means that there will be a seven-day catch up service for the majority of its primetime programmes, such as Hollyoaks and Deal Or No Deal.“It is a major step towards making… Continue reading Channel 4 Announces New On-Demand Service

Scottish Media Group, owner of Virgin Radio, has seen its shares drop by 28% today after issuing a profits warning. SMG said that the dip in profits is due to a weak market for TV and cinema advertising, which has affected its Scottish TV franchises and its cinema advertising sales business Pearl & Dean. However,… Continue reading SMG Issues Profit Warning And Sees Shares Fall

The final episode of Ricky Gervais’ comedy Extras drew 3.4 million adult viewers on average to BBC Two last night, taking a 16.5% audience share at 9pm.That Mitchell And Webb Look followed with 2.3 million, indicating an 11% viewing share. On at the same time, Ancient Rome: The Rise And Fall Of An Empire on… Continue reading Last Episode Of Extras Gets 3.4 Million

Google recorded a revenue increase of 70% for the third quarter, to $2.69 billion, and nearly doubled its profits to $733 million. Google-owned sites generated revenues of $1.63 billion, or 60% of total revenues, in the third quarter of 2006. This represents an 84% increase over third quarter 2005 revenues of $885 million and a… Continue reading Google Revenues Grow 70%