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BSkyB has bought Virgin Media TV for £160 million, in a deal which will see Sky pay £105 million in cash on completion, with the remainder paid following completion of the regulatory process.

TalkSPORT has won the exclusive UK radio rights to broadcast the Rugby World Cup 2011.

ITV has appointed former GCap CEO Fru Hazlitt to the newly created role of managing director of commercial and online.

Five chairman and chief executive Dawn Airey has joined movie rental service LoveFilm as non-executive director, with immediate effect.

Network Rail has awarded two new advertising contracts – worth around £260 million over five years – to JCDecaux and Primesight.

Revenues at UTV Media were up 2% on a like for like basis in the four months to the end of April.

Aegis has reported 1.1% year on year growth in organic revenues for the first quarter of the year.

The Independent could go free within the M25, owner Evgeny Lebedev said in his first interview since buying the paper.

KBH Transport Media, which specialises in traincards on rail routes into London, has launched new packages aimed at advertisers using smaller or more targeted budgets.

Trinity Mirror has reported a year on year fall of 5% in like for like revenues for the first 17 weeks of the year, with group ad revenue also down 5%.