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The MediaTel.co.uk and MediaTel Group websites will sport a fresh new look from Monday, designed by our own Business Solutions team to unite our portfolio of products and showcase the company’s range of services.The new look ties MediaTel Group’s extensive catalogue of products together with a unified feel across their respective websites, while maintaining familiar… Continue reading New Look MediaTel.co.uk To Debut On Monday

The Media Research Group has announced its new committee for 2005/06, with new member Roger Gane of RSMB taking over the role of chair from Christina Hartley.Also new to the committee is Jo Rigby, group research director at OMD UK, who will take responsibility for the MRG’s time-intensive Education role, replacing Rosemary Taylor from RTA.Maintaining… Continue reading MRG Announces New Committee For 2005/06

Sarah Pearce – MediaTel NewsLine Global digital television penetration is predicted to reach 144 million homes by the end of 2005, with this figure set to more than double by the end of the decade, to 370 million, according to MediaTel INSIGHT’s latest Digital TV Report.Earlier this week, at MediaTel INSIGHT’s Future of Digital TV… Continue reading Global Digital TV To Reach 144 Million Homes By End Of 2005

Sarah Pearce – MediaTel NewsLine British Airways, O2, Direct Line and 20th Century Fox are to be amongst the first advertisers to use digital poster advertising technology on the London Underground.The first wave of advertising campaigns using Viacom Outdoor’s Digital Escalator Panels, enabling advertisers to create animated posters that move or feature changing text, will… Continue reading First Digital Advertisers Make Debut On Tube

Cable TV was predicted to enjoy an upturn in popularity, with Europe leading the way in terms of take up, at the MediaTelINSIGHT Future of Digital TV Seminar, held earlier this week. Sitting on the seminar discussion panel, journalist and broadcaster Ray Snoddy was optimistic about cable prevalence in the digital television market, pointing to… Continue reading UK Cable Revival Predicted As Europe Sees Growth

Future has announced that its bid for Highbury House Communications has lapsed following an earlier announcement from the Office of Fair Trading (OFT). The OFT refereed the proposed merger of magazine publishers Highbury House Communications and Future, to the Competition Commissions under provisions of the Enterprise Act, 2002. Future’s all-share bid for Highbury was announced… Continue reading Future Drops Highbury Merger After OFT Referral

SwitchCo, the organisation that will officially oversee the nation’s switch to digital TV, has been launched, signalling a further step to the analogue switch off, planned to begin in 2008 and reach completion in 2012. The organisation will be in charge of keeping the rollout of digital television, region by region, to a timetable agreed… Continue reading SwitchCo Launched Despite Fears Raised Over Switchover Date

Staff – MediaTel NewsLine Jim Kite, Universal McCann’s top research executive, has left the company’s global research division at the Interpublic unit, taking up the head research post at Publicis’ MediaVest unit to mark the latest high-profile defection from McCann’s senior management team.Last month saw Robin Kent replaced in the position of worldwide chief executive… Continue reading McCann Loses Kite As Wind Of Change Sweeps Management

Staff – MediaTel NewsLine The BBC has launched the Creative Archive Licence, allowing companies and institutions to download material from its extensive film, television and radio back catalogue legally for the first time.Media and arts organisations, universities and libraries have been urged by the Corporation to subscribe to the scheme, designed to allow public access… Continue reading BBC Shares Archives Through Legal Downloads

Staff – MediaTel NewsLine Carat has appointed acting managing director Neil Jones as the company’s new managing director, filling the shoes of Colin Mills, who left the post earlier this year with no new role to go to.Mills’ departure ended an 11 year tenure at the company, six of which were spent as managing director… Continue reading Neil Jones Appointed MD Of Carat