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Specialist magazine publisher, Future, has updated investors on its progress this morning, revealing a 17% dip in profit year on year and predicting a weaker market in the near term. The company blamed tough trading conditions, and weak newsstand sales in the UK and France for its decline, which has seen pre-tax profit fall to… Continue reading Future Warns Of Weak Market As Profits Slip

Emap’s flagship music magazine, Q, is to offer readers a unique review of the year in music next month, creating a special ‘napstercast’ quiz in conjunction with the online music provider of the same name.The partnership will see Q magazine produce a downloadable music quiz hosted by comedian Ed Byrne and featuring artists such as… Continue reading Q Partners Napster For Christmas Retrospective

Satellite giant BSkyB is continuing to expand its high definition (HD) service, adding the National Geographic channel to its line-up ahead of the service’s launch in 2006.National Geographic HD will offer Sky’s customers a range of content in vastly increased quality, with programmes covering natural history, wildlife, science and world exploration.The channel will also broadcast… Continue reading Sky Expands Pre-Launch HDTV Line-Up

TV giant Sky is to extend the reach of its Sky By Wire service through a deal with Irish broadband provider, Magnet Networks.The deal builds on Sky By Wire’s availability through Video Networks’ Homechoice service within London and the surrounding areas, offering the company’s customers in the capital access to Sky’s wholly owned sport and… Continue reading New Deal Sees Sky Widen Broadband TV Offering

London’s newest free morning newspaper, CITY A.M, is to cash in on the return of big bonuses in the financial world with a its largest stand-alone supplement to date, offering 39 pages of property advertising to target the Capital’s highest earning professionals.The CITY A.M. Living supplement will hit the capital’s streets on 1st December, carrying… Continue reading City AM Expands With Largest Ever Supplement

A raft of high profile programmes failed to secure victory for ITV on Saturday, as the broadcaster continually failed to top the BBC’s audiences for established prime time favourites.ITV secured victory later on in the evening, however, as the results of its earlier programmes topped those of the BBC.ITV’s X Factor was the first show… Continue reading ITV Trades Blows With BBC In Saturday Showdown

Consumer broadband adoption is increasing at its fastest rate across most of Europe, with new research from Datamonitor expecting penetration to settle at around 60% in terms of household penetration in advanced markets.Broadband has enjoyed a surge in popularity over recent years and is now central to many service providers’ strategies, aggressive marketing techniques and… Continue reading Europe Sees Surge In Broadband Adoption

Total UK adspend is predicted to top £15 billion by 2010, with online advertising expenditure share expected to reach 10% by 2007, according OPera’s latest Economic and Media Forecast for 2006 and Beyond.OPera project total advertising spend in the UK to rise to £13.2 billion in 2006, up from £12.8 billion this year, with advertising… Continue reading UK Adspend To Hit £15 Billion By 2010

Newspaper giant Trinity Mirror has acquired Paldonsay Ltd, the parent company of High Street Direct and owner of SecsintheCity.com, for £3.3 million, giving the company control of the leading internet recruitment site for secretarial and administrative jobs.The acquisition builds on Future’s growing online recruitment portfolio, following the company’s purchase of the UK’s second largest online… Continue reading Trinity Continues Online Recruitment Acquisitions

Text messages sent during October yet again beat records, with new figures from the Mobile Data Association (MDA) revealing that a staggering 2.9 billion messages were sent during the month, with an average of 93.5 million sent per day.Person-to-person texts sent across the UK network operators last month showed an increase of 25.7% on the… Continue reading October Text Messages Continue Recording Breaking Performance