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ITV is to cut 40 jobs from its Meridian and Central regional news teams and Sky News is also to cut jobs as it revamps its schedule. Reports in The Guardian say that Sky News could axe Sky Report and World News Tonight, with a formal announcement to employees about their futures expected to come… Continue reading News Channel Job Cuts

The 20 largest cable and DSL providers in the US acquired a record 3.1 million subscribers during the first quarter of 2006, according to the Leichtman Research Group. The top broadband providers have almost 46 million high speed internet subscribers, with cable having nearly 25.8 million broadband subscribers (see Broadband Accounts For Over 42 Million… Continue reading US Broadband Record

Worldwide unit shipments of personal video recorder (PVR) products reached 19 million in 2005, an increase of 60% on the 11.9 million units shipped in 2004, says new research by In-Stat (see PVR Subscribers To Reach 34 Million By 2010). The study predicts that this figure will reach 42 million by 2010, showing that PVRs… Continue reading Worldwide PVR Shipments Hit 19 Million

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

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

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

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