More Industry News articles

Supermarket giant Tesco has fired the latest salvo in the increasingly fierce cut-price broadband war with the launch of a new service costing less than £20 per month to complement its existing dial up, mobile and home telephone products.The high-street stalwart’s 512k service, pitched at entry level broadband users, ranks behind its rivals in terms… Continue reading Tesco Enters Cut-Price Broadband Market

Five’s director of programmes Dan Chambers has poured cold water on the prospect of the broadcaster launching a digital channel in the near future, claiming it would be “phenomenally” expensive to get off the ground. The UK’s smallest commercial channel is currently looking at ways to strengthen its position in the burgeoning digital market and… Continue reading Digital Offerings Too Expensive For Five

Sky Networks managing director, Dawn Airey, has categorically denied accusations that beleaguered digital music channels, The Amp, Scuzz and Flaunt, will be forced to close following a wide-ranging review of their performance.The future of the channels, which launched less than two years ago, was called into question in July following a shake-up that saw BSkyB’s… Continue reading MGEITF 2004: Airey Denies Beleagured Music Channels To Close

The Times has announced a two month cross promotional campaign with film channel TCM, targeting the nation’s film buffs and publicising its Film First screenings of the autumn’s most-anticipated movies.The promotion will see The Times Film First sponsor TCM’s Thursday Night at The Movies programming strand. As part of the deal, The Times will also… Continue reading The Times Signs Movie Promotion Deal With TCM

As the UK teeters on the brink of a satellite receiver revolution, the BBC’s director-general said, he is keen to link up with the UK’s other public service broadcasters (PSBs) to drive forward digital switch-over as quickly as possible. Speaking at the Media Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival, Mark Thompson said, the Corporation is already… Continue reading BBC Keen To Drive Digital Switch-Over

The recent European Football Championships helped national speech based station talkSPORT see its audience increase by nearly half a million listeners, according to the latest research from audience measurement company GfK.According to GfK’s contentious National Broadcast Survey for the six months from 19 January to 18 July, the Wireless Group’s flagship radio station added 432,000… Continue reading GfK Finds Football And Music Topping Radio Charts

As the number of digital TV channels continues to grow, the media landscape it becoming further fragmented and broadcasters are having to be more creative to ensure big brands don’t turn their backs and advertising budgets on television. There are now over 300 channels that fracture television and advertisers are increasingly looking to broadcasters to… Continue reading TV Broadcasters Battle To Attract Advertisers

ITV chief executive Charles Allen has revealed ambitious plans to launch a raft of new channels over the next five years in an effort to compete more effectively against the BBC in the burgeoning multi-channel environment.The UK’s largest commercial broadcaster currently has one digital channel in the form of ITV2 and is planning to launch… Continue reading MGEITF 2004: ITV Reveals Plans To Launch Range Of New Channels

Influential BBC broadcaster and journalist John Humphrys has delivered a scathing attack on the corrupting influence of reality television, accusing shows like Big Brother and Wife Swap of being “meretricious, seedy and cynical”.Humphrys, presenter of BBC Radio Four’s flagship Today programme, criticised some of the most senior executives in British television for producing too many… Continue reading MGEITF 2004: Mind-Numbing Reality Television Comes Under Fire

The majority of media stocks saw a rise in share price last week, although UBC Media, the UK’s largest independent radio production company, proved that the good fortune was not universal as it suffered a 6.52% slip.Last week saw the company announce details of a development agreement with Channel 4 to create a radio joint… Continue reading Sharewatch: UBC Falls Despite Channel 4 Radio Boost