More Industry News articles

MediaTel Group is pleased to announce the sixth in its successful series of seminars, featuring several high-profile guests including event chair and BBC media correspondent Torin Douglas, a panel debate and audience Q&A session.Some of the topics up for discussion include; the impact of new TV technologies, including IPTV, VOD and mobile; do PVR fears… Continue reading MediaTel Group Announces Forthcoming Television Seminar

ITV looks set to radically restructure its daytime programming by cutting its afternoon news output and reducing its commitment to children’s programming.From September 4 the lunchtime news bulletin, starting at 1.30, will be cut in half, from 60 to 30 minutes, and Loose Women will be returning for an hour from 12.30. After the news,… Continue reading ITV Begins Daytime Schedule Revamp

Real People, NatMags’ women’s weekly, is refunding advertisers after it failed to meet its guaranteed circulation target of 350,000, according to a report in Marketing Week.The magazine, which launched in January, was 9% short of its target in the six months to June, according to the ABC magazine figures which were released last week (see… Continue reading Real People Could Refund Advertisers

Five has named Nick Thorogood as the Controller of its two forthcoming digital channels, Five US and Five Life. The two channels are being launched in the Autumn and Thorogood will begin his new role in September. Until earlier this year Thorogood was editor of ITV daytime, a position he’d held since 2004. Prior to… Continue reading Five Announces Controller For New Digital Channels

YouTube, the video sharing website, has unveiled new plans to monetize its service through two new advertising concepts, Participatory Video Ads (PVA) and Brand Channels.YouTube says that these concepts are the first step toward defining a new advertising model for video entertainment on the internet and are intended to complement YouTube’s current offerings which include… Continue reading YouTube Unveils New Plans To Monetize Its Service

Five has named Nick Thorogood as the Controller of its two forthcoming digital channels, Five US and Five Life.The two channels are being launched in the Autumn and Thorogood will begin his new role in September.Until earlier this year Thorogood was editor of ITV daytime, a position he’d held since 2004. Prior to that he… Continue reading Five Announces Controller For New Digital Channels

July was another record breaking month for text messaging in the UK, as the number sent soared to over 3.5 billion, according to new figures released today by the Mobile Data Association (MDA). An average of 113 million messages were sent per day throughout July, and the total is an increase of almost 30% on… Continue reading Record Text Messaging Figures For July

Andy Duncan, the chief executive of Channel 4, will not take Charles Allen’s place at ITV, saying that his loyalties lie with Channel 4 and will do for “some considerable time.”“There has been a lot of speculation about possible candidates for this role and I want it to be known that I will not be… Continue reading Channel 4 Head Will Not Step Into Allen’s Shoes

Subscriber numbers to retail VoIP services rose by 83% during 2005, from 10.3 million at the beginning of the year to over 18.7 million subscribers by the end, according to new research from Point Topic. Point Topic’s research also estimates that the number of people who paid for PC-to-phone calls during 2005 is over 4.7… Continue reading VoIP Subscriber Numbers Rose By 83% In 2005

July was another record breaking month for text messaging in the UK, as the number sent soared to over 3.5 billion, according to new figures released today by the Mobile Data Association (MDA).An average of 113 million messages were sent per day throughout July, and the total is an increase of almost 30% on the… Continue reading Record Text Messaging Figures For July