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Shares in ITV rose 1.2% last week, as rumours circulated that the broadcaster could be the focus of a take-over bid by US private equity group Kohlberg Kravis Roberts. This defied the downward market trend, which saw the FTSE 100 surrender all and more of Friday’s 2% gain after another session of unstable trading. Rumours… Continue reading ITV Bucks Stock Market Trend

X Factor: Battle Of The Stars was the winner of last night’s battle of the Reality TV behemoths, picking up 5.3 million adult viewers as busty page-three stunner Michelle Marsh was voted off the celebrity talent contest.X Factor‘s 26.8% adult audience share was comfortably higher than that of Big Brother, which could only manage 21%,… Continue reading X Factor Beats Big Brother

Top Up TV, the independent company set up to offer Freeview customers the chance to ‘top up’ their channels for a small monthly payment, has gone into voluntary liquidation.Related LinksTop Up TV

Orange plans to offer a UK broadband television service this year, in direct competition with BT and BSkyB’s converged television and internet product, due to be launched shortly.Orange, which recently rebranded ISP Wanadoo with the Orange moniker (see Wanadoo Makes Way For Orange Price War Brews Over Free Broadband), and Orange’s 15 million mobile subscribers… Continue reading Orange Announces “Free” Broadband TV

The chief executive of the Office of Fair Trading (OFT), John Fingleton, has said current arrangements for distributing newspapers and magazines, that award local monopolies to wholesalers, may harm consumers and are difficult to justify in terms of competition law.The OFT has just published its revised draft opinion (see Newspaper Society Pushes OFT On Magazine… Continue reading OFT Examines Press Distribution

HMV is placing a series of advertisements in national newspapers and magazines which allow consumers to respond to them immediately and buy CDs, DVDs and games directly from their mobile phones.The advertisements, to be printed from June 5, will have a unique ordering code for new music, film and game titles. All the customer has… Continue reading HMV To Launch Mobile Purchase Ads

Egmont and Disney Publishing Worldwide have announced the launch of a new monthly magazine for girls aged five to seven, Disney Fairies, opening up a new avenue for advertisers.An extensive marketing campaign within Egmont’s Daisy magazine and their other titles, reaching a collective readership of over 300,000, will support the new publication. Egmont will also… Continue reading New Magazine Opens Up Ad Opportunity

Mobile media company 3 is to launch an irreverent World Cup themed show on its mobile TV service, with previews and reviews of the tournament’s action every day throughout the event.The show, called Berlin or Bust, which features stars like the Kaiser Chiefs and Ray Winstone and includes segments presented by Ally McCoist, will be… Continue reading 3 To Launch Mobile World Cup Show

Freeview will lead the analogue switch-off in Britain, with 60% of all new digital homes taking the service in 2006 and 2007, the latest report by ZenithOptimedia predicts. The report states that Freeview will become the largest digital platform in the UK, overtaking Sky Digital. 70% of television homes were digital at the end of… Continue reading Freeview To Overtake Sky In Analogue Switch-Off

Eastenders and England’s last friendly before the World Cup ensured BBC1 was last night’s hands-down winner in the viewing stakes.Over eight-and-a-half million adults (39.4% of the viewing share) tuned in to see Peter Crouch’s post-goal robotic jig and the home team beat Hungary 3-1. Eastenders, with almost eight million adult viewers, won the biggest audience… Continue reading Soap and Footy Make BBC1 Clear Winner