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An advert for BBC Broadcast Limited has been placed in the global Financial Times and UK trade magazine Broadcast, signaling the beginning of the sales process for the BBCs commercial subsidiary.BBC Broadcast is one of Europe’s leading multimedia producer and distributors, providing a comprehensive range of services for content across all media, from television to… Continue reading BBC Broadcast Gets Go Ahead For Sale

Former BBC director general Greg Dyke has branded Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell’s proposals for the future government of the BBC as “a complete mess”, stating that they have the potential to be “totally confusing” and will not deliver the structural separation between delivery and oversight which is required.Writing in the Independent‘s Media Weekly today, Dyke… Continue reading Dyke Brands BBC Governance Plans ‘A Complete Mess’

The Institute of Practitioners in Advertising’s (IPA) latest Trends in Television Report shows a dramatic uptake in digital technology over the last quarter of 2004, revealing that over half of all UK homes have adopted the new media. Overall television viewing figures slipped slightly towards the end of last year, with average daily hours of… Continue reading IPA Reports Over Half Of UK Homes Have Digital TV

The Financial Times will switch its format to a tabloid edition for one day only later this month, producing a compact-only budget special.The one-off title will hit newsstands on March 16th, just hours after Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown delivers his pre-election budget to the House of Commons.According to The Guardian the reduced-format title… Continue reading FT To Drop Broadsheet For Budget One-Off

The Telegraph Group has continued its redundancy drive, with 15 journalists reportedly forced from their jobs yesterday, with a further 75 having already opted to take the company’s voluntary redundancy package.According to the Guardian the company held interviews with those journalists to be made redundant after they were chosen through a system assessing their performance… Continue reading Telegraph Sheds More Staff In Redundancy Drive

Grey Global Group shareholders have approved the sale of the company to Sir Martin Sorrell’s WPP Group, clearing the way for the deal to close on March 7 this year.Grey shareholders are reported to receive $1.7 billion in cash and WPP stock out of the $1.5 billion purchase of the New York based media group.It… Continue reading Date Set For WPP Merger With Grey Global

IPC’s Marie Claire has entered into the realm of ‘sonic advertising’, with a new advert for Herbal Essences hair products literally shouting the brand message from the magazine’s March edition.The innovative advert features a four-page glossy card with an integrated sound chip. When the card is opened by the reader they hear a woman shouting… Continue reading IPC Launches First Speaking Magazine Advert

UK cinema admissions for January 2005 were down by 12.4% year on year standing at 13.4 million, an average of 3 million admissions a week, according to research released by the Cinema Advertising Association (CAA). The CAA explains that the loss in admission figures is due to the extraordinary success of Lord of the Rings:… Continue reading UK January Cinema Admissions Fall

US broadband adoption is trailing behind some countries in terms of penetration with France, urban Brazil and the UK growing by 59%, 50% and 45% respectively between the end of 2003 and 2004, according to recent research from US analysts eMarketer. The percentage of broadband users, as a percentage of all internet users, is estimated… Continue reading US Broadband Adoption Falls Behind UK

Havas media group has reported a strong performance in 2004, with organic growth increasing by 2% for the full year, fuelled by the company’s strong performance in quarter four of 2004. The board of directors met yesterday to approve the 2004 financial statement, confirming predictions that its operating margin would be higher in the second… Continue reading Havas Confirms Strong 2004 Results