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By the end of 2005 half of all UK households will have Digital TV (DTV) and more people will use interactive TV (iTV) to connect to the internet than PC’s, according to the latest Internet Audience Measurement report from Jupiter MMXI, released today. The report shows that of the current 7 million homes that have… Continue reading Half Of UK Homes Will Be Digital By 2005, Says Jupiter

The latest figures from the Office of National Statistics show that the underlying rate of inflation for June has remained at a two-year high, increasing 2.4% on June 2000 due to increasing food prices.Month on month comparison reveals that the headline rate of inflation actually declined in June. The fall, to an annual rate of… Continue reading Underlying Rate Of Inflation Remains At A Two Year High

By the end of 2005 half of all UK households will have Digital TV (DTV) and more people will use interactive TV to connect to the internet than PC’s, according to the latest report from Jupiter MMXI.The report shows that of the current 7m homes that have DTV 20% use email regularly, almost one third… Continue reading Half Of UK Homes Will Be Digital By 2005

Investors in ITV companies Carlton and Granada have yet to see positive results from the ITV rebrand (see ITV Rebrands As ITV1), as share prices remain unresponsive. Carlton saw shares drop 2.44% to close at £3.10 yesterday, a loss of 7žp on the previous day, while Granada was down 2.05% to finish at £1.43, 3p… Continue reading Sharewatch

German television advertising growth outperformed the market there during the first half of the year, in stark contrast to the UK TV market, the performance of which is set to be the poorest media sector in Europe (see Insight Analysis: Ad Downturn Could Get Worse Before It Gets Better). According to ACNielsen data analysed by… Continue reading German TV Outperforms Ad Market In First Half

Future was looking bright by the end of last week’s trading. Having begun the week by issuing a reassuring statement to shareholders regarding its rapidly falling price (see Future Reassures Investors) it regained the market’s trust sufficiently to end the week up by over 75% week on week, at 40˝p, announcing on Friday that further… Continue reading Sharewatch

NTL, and ITV partners, Carlton and Granada, have denied press reports that NTL has made an all share bid for ITV Digital.NTL last night denied claims that it had made a bid for the company. Carlton  and Granada also denied that it had received any offer for the troubled pay-TV platform, recently rebranded from ONdigital… Continue reading NTL Deny ITV Digital Takeover

Several major online marketing companies have joined forces to set up a regulatory body to enforce codes of practice for the use of commercial email and to fight the proliferation of spam.The E-mail marketing association (eMMa) plans to set up codes of practice that advertisers, advertising agencies and internet service suppliers will be urged to… Continue reading New Standards For The Internet

Rupert Murdoch is the most influential person in British media but is “much less influential than he was 18 months ago,” according to the Media Guardian’s Top 100 most influential media figures, published today.Rupert Murdoch’s cross media dominance secured him the top spot in the Guardian poll but his position as the individual with the… Continue reading Guardian Names Media’s Big Shots

The Independent Television Commission (ITC) has come down hard on ITV drama while declaring that Chris Evans in a loin cloth and female orgasm creams on ITV’s This Morning make suitable daytime viewing.An episode of Coronation Street , which featured Toya Battersby lying injured after being violently assaulted and raped, received complaints from viewers, who… Continue reading ITC Condemns Violence But Allows Evans In A Loin Cloth