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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

Chrysalis Radio delivered overall revenue growth of 4.2% in the twelve months to 31 August, reaching £65.5 million. Chrysalis said that on a like-for-like basis, excluding the acquisition of Heart 106 in the East Midlands in May 2005, revenues for the full year were flat at £61.7 million. However, tight control of overheads and improved… Continue reading Chrysalis Radio Revenue Grows 4.2%

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… Continue reading UTV Withdraws SMG Merger Proposal

Guardian Media Group (GMG) has renewed its contract for Chrysalis Radio Sales to act as the national radio sales house for its Smooth and Real Radio brands.Under the new three-year agreement, Chrysalis Radio Sales will continue to sell advertising on Real Radio and Smooth FM to advertisers and agencies in London, while GMG will continue… Continue reading Chrysalis Remains GMG’s National Sales House For Radio Brands

The global market for video-on-demand services delivered via cable, internet protocol television (IPTV) networks and broadband is set to grow massively, according to new research from US researcher iSuppli. The VOD market is already seeing rapid growth, achieving more than 40% growth in 2005 compared to 2004, whilst the overall global VOD market will grow… Continue reading VOD Market To See Massive Growth

GCap Media will launch the UK’s first national jazz station on DAB digital radio towards the end of the year, providing a sister service to its successful Classic FM station.The new station, which will target the 35+ ABC1 demographic, will play a broad range of styles from across the genre’s spectrum.GCap says that its reasoning… Continue reading GCap Launches UK’s First National Jazz Station On DAB

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