John Brown Publishing has taken on Dean Fitzpatrick as managing director of its UK division. Fitzpatrick set up the company’s US contract division in New York and has been acting publishing director since returning to the UK. He will cover some of the responsibilities left by chief executive Andrew Hirsch, who transferred to the US… Continue reading Appointments Brief
Q1 cable statistics from the Independent Television Commission (ITC) show that cable TV penetration has risen by 2.1 percentage points year on year to 28.5% of homes passed and marketed. Cable TV take-up rate has increased by 10.1% in the same period, with 3.6m or 15% of TV households subscribing. The ITC figures also show… Continue reading ITC Publishes Q1 Cable TV Statistics
Digital One has reached 80% transmission coverage of the UK mainland population by switching on four new transmitters. Digital radio is now available to a potential 44.85m people in the UK, although only a fraction of this number have the equipment to listen to digital radio broadcasts.The licence requirement for Digital One is to reach… Continue reading Digital Radio Reaches 80% Coverage
The number of women using the Internet in the Asia-Pacific region has increased by an average of 36% since January, according to a Nielsen NetRatings report. The report says that women now comprise 48% of the Australian internet audience and 46% of New Zealand Net users. In South Korea the number of online women is… Continue reading Women Take Up The Net In Asia, Says Nielsen NetRatings
Future Network shares have been sliding once again this week, despite signing the contract to produce the official Microsoft Windows magazine (see Future To Produce Windows Magazine). Shares ended yesterday down 2½p at 37½p, a 6.25% fall which made the company the worst media performer of the day.The day’s trading was slack for most media… Continue reading Sharewatch
Although a fair few internet companies shut down in June, 53 according to Webmergers, this represents a plateau in the dot-dom death dot toll as a comparable number ceased to be in May (54). In April, the number of companies which shut down or declared bankruptcy was 59 and so far the number of ‘substantial’… Continue reading Internet Shutdowns ‘Hold Steady’, Says Webmergers
The BBC is considering plans to start charging people to download TV and radio programmes, according to press reports.In an interview with the FT , the BBC’s head of internet and interactive TV operations, Ashley Highfield, said that the heavy cost of distributing content on the internet could limit the amount of BBC content licence… Continue reading BBC Online To Charge Users?
Russian telecoms minister Leonid Reimnan has reiterated his wish for €39 billion to be invested in the Russian telecommunications industry by 2010, according to a report on Europemedia. At least half of this figure is expected to come from reinvestment by existing Russian telecoms companies and the rest from foreign and Russian investors, the report… Continue reading Russian Telecoms Minister Cals For e39 billion Investment
Kim Howells, the new minister for broadcasting, film and tourism (see New Minister For Tourism, Film And Broadcasting Appointed) has questioned how achievable the original time scale for the analogue switch-off is (see ONdigital Chief Calls For Joint Effort In Digital TV Promotion), saying that there were too many people dependent on television for their… Continue reading Howells Questions Digital Switch Date
Telecommunications hardware developer, Pace Microtechnology, and interactive television and media company, OpenTV, are to jointly develop high-end digital cable technology worldwide, the two companies have announced. Pace will port OpenTV’s broadband offering onto its cable home gateway. OpenTV’s broadband portfolio includes its interactive TV Middleware, EN2, integrated with Device Mosaic?, a standards-based HTML browser specifically… Continue reading Pace And OpenTV To Develop High-End Digital Cable
