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The Mobile Data Association has been forced to revise its usage forecasts for the UK’s text messaging services after figures for the first seven months of the year revealed a staggering 15 billion messages had changed hands.The MDA’s forecast now predicts a total of 25 billion messages for 2004, up from its previous forecast of… Continue reading Text Message Forecasts Revised Following Massive Usage

The future of BARB and the benefits of advertiser funded programming are just two of the long-running issues that will come under the spotlight at the Edinburgh International Television Festival this weekend.Hunders of television executives will decamp to Scotland for the three day event which is one of the highlights of the broadcast calendar. There… Continue reading Edinburgh Warms Up For International Television Festival

The Mobile Data Association has been forced to revise its usage forecasts for the UK’s text messaging services after figures for the first seven months of the year revealed a staggering 15 billion messages had changed hands. The MDA’s forecast now predicts a total of 25 billion messages for 2004, up from its previous forecast… Continue reading Text Message Forecasts Revised Following Massive Usage

The Sunday Times has announced a special edition of its entertainment CD-Rom, The Month, to celebrate its first anniversary with exclusive footage from the DVD release of Oasis’ Definitely Maybe.The Sunday Times claims its CD-Rom based entertainment section made publishing history this time last year, as the UK’s first digital newspaper section, designed to accompany… Continue reading Sunday Times Celebrates Month Birthday With Oasis Special

ITV’s sale of special effects house, Moving Picture Company, has attracted the attention of several major players, including Sir Martin Sorrell’s international advertising giant, WPP.The sale of MPC, undertaken as part of ITV’s £550 million disposal of non-core assets, is also understood to be of interest to former Carlton chairman, Michael Green, French electronics group… Continue reading WPP Amongst Bidders For ITV’s Special Effects Group

ITV’s sale of special effects house, Moving Picture Company, has attracted the attention of several major players, including Sir Martin Sorrell’s international advertising giant, WPP. The sale of MPC, undertaken as part of ITV’s £550 million disposal of non-core assets, is also understood to be of interest to former Carlton chairman, Michael Green, French electronics… Continue reading WPP Amongst Bidders For ITV’s Special Effects Group

UBC Media, the UK’s largest independent radio production company, has announced details of a development agreement with Channel 4 to create a radio station from the company’s existing Oneword digital radio station. In a statement this morning, UBC stated that it had agreed to work with Channel 4, as well as with third party companies,… Continue reading UBC Announces Plans For Radio With Channel 4

Emap has promoted FHM features editor Ross Brown to take over from departing editor David Davies at the helm of its market leading men’s lifestyle magazine.Brown takes over as editor at a difficult time for FHM, which has been hard hit by the multimillion launch of weekly rivals, Nuts and Zoo, which entered the sector… Continue reading FHM Appoints New Editor As Competition Hots Up

Sky One will receive an extensive revamp this autumn as its on and off-air branding is updated with a range of new idents and a new logo designed to coincide with the launch of the broadcaster’s new schedule.A spokesman for Sky One confirmed that the new branding would accompany Sky’s high-profile new acquisitions. He said:… Continue reading Sky One Gets Facelift In Time For Autumn Schedule

The Hallmark Channel is launching a national advertising campaign to support the UK premier of US police dramas Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and Law & Order: Criminal Intent, which will air on the channel next month.The marketing campaign, which has been created by Skin Media, launches this week and runs until mid-September with… Continue reading Hallmark Launches Campaign To Push Police Dramas