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Bauer Media has appointed Julian Linley to the new role of creative director for lifestyle and entertainment.

Arqiva has appointed former UKTV executive John Keeling to head up the programming and marketing for its proposed online TV venture.

A local newspaper from the American town of Newport, Rhode Island, could could prove to be a guiding light for companies wanting to put their online content behind paywalls.

Online auction site eBay has sold its 65% stake in internet telephony service Skype to an investment consortium for $1.9 billion.

ESPN has acquired the rights to show the new Uefa Europa League – which replaces the Uefa Cup – previously held by Setanta.

Marketing services group Havas has reported a 15% fall in like-for-like revenue at its UK operation in the second quarter.

Independent News & Media has suffered a big drop in ad revenues for the six months to the end of June and warned that its profits for the whole year will be at the lower end of forecasts.

Top-slicing the BBC’s licence fee would not only destroy the corporation in the long term, but would also be a “catastrophe for British democracy”, according to the BBC’s chief operating officer Caroline Thomson.

Channel 4’s long-awaited partnership with BBC Worldwide could be finalised within the next few weeks, according to the broadcaster’s chief executive Andy Duncan.

Former Endemol chairman Peter Bazalgette believes that the sort of online content provided by the Sun and Times will be unlikely to make money for News Corporation once pay walls are erected around it.