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According to recent report by Oftel, there are now six million more internet households in the UK than there were a year ago. OftelÂ’s residential survey shows that 10 million (40%) of UK households were online in May 2001, an increase of 3.75 million in a year. Source: Oftel, July 2001

Pearson, which released its interim financial results yesterday (see Pearson Results Show FT Profits Hit By Ad Downturn), saw shares rise 4.72% to finish at £10.87, an increase of 49p on the previous day.Trinity Mirror, which last week announced that its pre-tax profit was down 9.7% for the six month period to 1 July 2001… Continue reading Sharewatch

The row surrounding Channel 4’s controversial satire programme Brass Eye continued today as the broadsheet newspapers weighed in with opinion on satire, taste and the role of the government and regulators in policing the media.The Independent Television Commission (ITC) has confirmed that it has already processed around 700 complaints about the show, which aired on… Continue reading Brass Eye Row Continues

Bidding for the four-year ITV news contract closes today and ITN will be challenged for the first time by the Channel 3 News consortium.ITN has provided news on the ITV network for 46 years and will face competition for the contract, which begins in 2003 and is thought to be worth in excess of £150m,… Continue reading Bidding Closes For ITV News Contract

Emap Performance has closed its rock, rap and lifestyle magazine, Kingsize, after just four issues.The magazine, aimed at the youth market, was launched in March to fill the gap left by the closure of indie music magazine Select, which closed in January after sales dropped (see Launches And Closures: Press).Kingsize, which had a cover price… Continue reading Emap Closes Kingsize

Cinema admissions in June reached 9.4m and were up 21% on the same period last year, according to The Cinema Advertising Association (CAA).The box office soared during June with cinema admissions averaging 2.18 million a week. This was largely due to Pearl harbour, which took £10.4m, throughout the month, making it June’s top film. Animated… Continue reading Cinema Reaches For The Sky In June

National commercial speech station talkSPORT is to be allowed to provide a separate football programme for Scotland and Northern Ireland. The station asked to establish the “split” service in order to provide phone-ins and coverage which covered the Scottish Premier League rather than the English one.The station is capable of broadcasting in this way due… Continue reading TalkSPORT Allowed To Split Scottish Football

Channel 4 is launching 4 Creative, a new commercial venture specialising in TV related cross-platform marketing.4 Creative has been set up in response to the increasing demand for Channel 4’s creative services department to take on projects that fall outside the day to day requirements of programme promotion. It will take over from the creative… Continue reading Channel 4 Gets Creative

Granada has today completed the acquisition of the Border Television ITV franchise from Capital Radio, the two groups have announced. Granada has paid £50.5 million for the business. Capital Radio acquired Border TV in May 2000, comprising the three Century-branded radio stations and the Border Television ITV franchise. The acquisition enhanced Capital Radio’s strategy of… Continue reading Granada Acquires Border TV From Capital Radio