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The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has taken steps to boost the widespread adoption of digital television (DTV) in the country by requiring that new TV sets have a digital tuner built in to them. The FCC has imposed a deadline on electronics manufacturers to include the receivers in new sets by 2007 at the… Continue reading FCC Imposes Deadlines For DTV Sets

Three bidders have been confirmed as potential buyers of the insolvent German media group KirchMedia but Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation will take no further part in the auction process, according to reports in the German press. A consortium including the investment bank Lehman Brothers, German retailer Rewe and Saudi Prince Al-Waleed is believed to have… Continue reading News Corp Out Of The Running For Kirch, Says Report

Week on week analysis shows that the best performance in last week’s media market came from BSkyB, which recently announced that it gained 214,000 subscribers in Q4 last year, taking its total to 6.1 million (see Financial Results Released By Trinity And BSkyB). Shares rose 11.23% to close at £5.89˝, an increase of 59˝p on… Continue reading Sharewatch

GMG Radio is to apply for the new FM licences in the West Midlands and Glasgow using the recently acquired Jazz FM format (see Jazz FM Agrees To £44.5m Takeover By GMG).The new licences, due to be advertised early next year, will be among the last licences to be awarded by the radio Authority before… Continue reading GMG Bids For New Licences For Jazz FM

GWR’s sales house, Opus, is expanding is sales team with the appointment of former Emap and Teletext sales executive, Caroline Holmes.Holmes, who took up the new agency executive position earlier this month, is responsible for selling radio ad spots across The Mix network. Reporting to Opus agency group head, Paul Carolan, she handles a range… Continue reading Opus Adds New Agency Executive To The Mix

Mercedes-Benz is running a promotional campaign across the FT newspaper and FT.com platforms.The campaign follows the “Lucky Star” theme developed in recent television commercials. It centers around an online card game which offers the chance to live like the luckiest man in the world for one week.Claire Payne, UK advertisement director of the FT, commented:… Continue reading FT Lands Multi-Media Promotion With Mercedes-Benz

Interactive Digital Sales (ids) is restructuring its business to focus more of its sell towards media planners and advertisers.The former sales department of Flextech Television has merged its specialist agency sales (see Flextech Television Sales Gains Independence), business development, client sales and sponsorship teams into two core divisions: agency sales and commercial development.Agency sales, headed… Continue reading IDS To Shift Focus With Major Business Restructure

Global market research company, Ipsos Group, has acquired the assets of ACNielsen’s US-based strategic marketing research and product development consultancy, ACNielsen Vantis. Upon completion of the sale, the company will be known as Ipsos-Novaction & Vantis. Ipsos says that the Vantis suite of marketing products and services complements the product and service portfolio of the… Continue reading Ipsos Acquires US ACNielsen Division

The Periodical Publishers Association (PPA) has asked the Government to categorically support continued independent self-regulation of the internet, amending the Communications Bill accordingly (see Jowell Announces Communications Consultation).The group has proposed that publishers should be differentiated from other broadcasting sectors and continue to operate under the current self regulatory regimes.Safo Kaordestani, of the PPA told… Continue reading PPA Asks Government To Amend Communications Bill

Insolvency advisers have selected TF1 and Sony to enter the final stage of bidding for KirchMedia, the bankrupt broadcast and sports rights owner. It had been anticipated that the original list of seven bidders (see Seven Bids In For KirchMedia) would be reduced to three but a collaboration of German publishers, led by Axel Springer,… Continue reading Two Bidders To Compete For Kirch Assets