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Aegis’ board has sent a letter to shareholders recommending they vote against Groupe Bolloré’s board nominations. Chairman of Aegis, Lord Sharman, has written to the shareholders ahead of the annual general meeting to be held on June 14. Aegis’ board is against the nominations as they believe Groupe Bolloré chairman Vincent Bolloré’s chairmanship of Havas… Continue reading Aegis Board Urge Shareholders To Block Nominations

BSkyB, in a joint bid with BT, has won ‘near-live’ rights to 242 FA Premier League Matches with a three-year £84.3m deal covering the 2007-08 to 2009-10 seasons.BSkyB will be able to show full delayed coverage or extended highlights of all Barclays Premiership matches which are not broadcast live.Vic Wakeling, managing director of Sky Sports,… Continue reading ‘Near-Live’ Football For Sky And BT Vision

Google has added video to its current catalogue of text, static image, banner and flash animation ads, which it provides to other sites.The search engine colossus plans to place online video ads on the many websites in US, Canada and Japan where it sells advertising, though for the moment they will not appear on Google’s… Continue reading A Commercial Break For Google

The top 20 broadband providers in the States bagged more than 3 million new subscribers in the first three months of this year, in what has proved to be a record quarter for broadband additions. These 20 big players now control 94% of the broadband market – a massive 46 million broadband subscribers – according… Continue reading Broadband Bonanza For US Providers

The number of global broadband subscribers rose to over 221 million at the end of 2005, according to analysis released by Telegeography Research. The figure grew from around 162 million from a year earlier, an increase of 37%. In 2003 the figure was nearer the 106 million mark. Telegeography predicts that the total number of… Continue reading Global Broadband Subscriber Increase

Google has added video to its current catalogue of text, static image, banner and flash animation ads, which it provides to other sites. The search engine colossus plans to place online video ads on the many websites in US, Canada and Japan where it sells advertising, though for the moment they will not appear on… Continue reading A Commercial Break For Google

Vodafone has reported an overwhelming take-up for their mobile TV service, launched last year with BskyB. Sky Mobile TV, which is streamed straight to mobiles so doesn’t need to be downloaded, has signed up over 100,000 subscribers, and now experiences more than 70,000 streams per day. Speaking to delegates at MEM2006, the annual Mobile Entertainment… Continue reading TV To Go

Emap plans to create city-specific digital radio stations on the back of its existing brands.The new local stations will retain the media group’s already established brand identities such as Kiss and Kerrang but would feature local content and presenters for individual cities.The plans come amidst the news that the company has seen a 9% rise… Continue reading Emap Plans For Regional Radio Stations

Digital Cinema is to be rolled out on a wide scale from 2007 in a bid to maintain the experience gap between cinema and home entertainment systems such as HDTV, according to the latest report from Screen Digest. During the second half of 2005, following on from the release of the technical specification for d-cinema,… Continue reading Digital Cinema Rollout Edges Nearer

ITV1 was last night’s big TV winner, with Coronation Street grabbing around 9 million viewers and more than 50% of the adult viewing share. The British Soap Opera Awards, which followed on from Corrie, held the attention of more than 5 and a half million soap-lovers, 27% of adult viewers.The first instalment of BBC’s two-part… Continue reading ITV1 Top In Last Night’s Telly