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BBC One triumphed over ITV1 and Channel 4 last night, with New Tricks taking the majority of adult viewing share over the final of X Factor: Battle Of The Stars and Big Brother.New Tricks is proving itself as a consistently high-rating drama – the first series, screened in 2004, was BBC One’s highest rating new… Continue reading BBC One Brings Home The Bacon

Chrysalis Radio is to launch a bespoke podcast production service, Chrysalis Content, which allows companies to produce their own tailored audio programmes.The podcasts can be hosted either on a Chrysalis website or a client company website, to be downloaded and listened to on the consumer’s PC or transferred to a portable MP3 player.The launch of… Continue reading Chrysalis Announces Bespoke Podcast Service

A delegation of Labour MPs, led by sponsor of the Children’s Food Bill, Mary Creagh, has today met the communications regulator Ofcom to demand a pre-9pm ban on junk food advertising aimed at children.Ms Creagh, MP for Wakefield, has today tabled an Early Day Motion calling on Ofcom to give equal weight to the 9pm… Continue reading MPs Demand Junk Ad Ban From Ofcom

May began with a positive diagnosis for the UK advertising industry, with expenditure forecast to rise this year by 2.6%, ahead of the 2.2% predicted for the US and 1.4% for the Eurozone. The figures from the Advertising Association and World Advertising Research Centre also showed that advertising expenditure in the UK grew by 1.8%… Continue reading INSIGHTanalysis: Media Healthcheck – May 2006

Channel 4 has launched its new radio station, which will take advantage of the absence of regulation and challenge traditional radio operators.Channel4radio.com is an historic move for the broadcaster, which for over two decades has focused primarily on television broadcasting. The channel’s online service will focus on commissioning radio programmes for users to download onto… Continue reading C4 Makes History With Radio Launch

More and more UK companies are moving their advertising budgets online, according to a new survey carried out by the Online Marketing Show (OMS). The survey, in its second year and coming ahead of the show on June 7-8, had 40% of respondents say that they spend 26% or more of their marketing budget online… Continue reading Commitment To Online Marketing Increases

Five is to launch two new channels, five US and five life, on Freeview this Autumn and has begun a major recruitment drive to staff the new channels using funding from its sole shareholder, RTL.Five US will show the best of American television with a selection of drama, sport, films and youth programming, while five… Continue reading Five To Launch Two New Channels

The Times newspaper will shortly launch a television service, Times TV, said News International chairman Less Hinton at the World Newspaper Congress in Moscow today.The television venture will be sponsored by computer company Cisco Systems and the service will have aggregated content provided by partners. News International also publishes the Sun and News of the… Continue reading Times Newspaper To Launch Times TV

talkSPORT, the UK’s most popular commercial speech radio station, has struck a deal with German regional broadcasting chiefs to broadcast across the nation’s DAB digital radio airwaves during what promises to be a cracking World Cup.This means that soccer-crazy fans will be able to listen to English radio in Germany for up to the minute… Continue reading talkSPORT To Broadcast From Germany

HomeChoice, the broadband, telephone and IPTV provider, looks as if it will have to cut its sale price from a hoped for £200 million after its owners received offers nearer the £50 million mark.Investment bank Credit Suisse First Boston are handling the sale for Video Networks, the company behind HomeChoice, who last year reported a… Continue reading HomeChoice Could Cut Sale Price