ITV1’s UEFA Champions League Live coverage attracted more than 9 million peak viewers during the all-important evening slot last night.The Arsenal v Manchester United semi-final, which saw Man Utd win 3-1 at Arsenal’s home-ground with two goals from Ronaldo and one from Park, pulled in 7.4 million average viewers and a 31.8% share between 7.30pm… Continue reading Arsenal v Man United scores over 9m viewers
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Chris Hancox VP marketing and creative services at Comedy Central, discusses the recent rebrand of Paramount Comedy to Comedy Central…Paramount Comedy has been the UK’s only dedicated comedy channel since 1996, but we recently took the decision to rebrand the channel to Comedy Central; after careful strategic planning, a great deal of consideration and some… Continue reading Not just another rebrand… The success story of Comedy Central
Publicis Groupe chairman Maurice Lévy says that the business model for print media is broken.Speaking at yesterday’s Fipp World Magazine Congress in London, Lévy said that there were tough times ahead for traditional media, with structural issues at the heart of the problem.He said: “The end of the economic crisis will not be, I’m sorry… Continue reading Maurice Lévy: “Print media’s business model is broken”
Times Newspapers has reported a loss of £51.3 million for the year ending June 30 2008, compared with a loss of £43.9 million for the previous year.The publisher’s losses reportedly came from a rise in the cost of newsprint, a one-off charge associated with moving the print-run from Wapping to Broxbourne and redundancy costs.The group’s… Continue reading Times Newspapers reports £51 million loss
The Association of Online Publishers has announced the shortlist for its 2009 Digital Publishing Awards.Winners for each of the 17 categories, which include innovation, mobile and commercial partnership, will be announced at an awards dinner on June 2 in London.Bauer Media’s digital sales team, Future Publishing’s digital ad team and IPC Media’s Ignite are among… Continue reading AOP announces Digital Publishing Awards shortlist
Richard Bullwinkle, chief evangelist at Macrovision, examines the digital broadcast television industry – past, present and future…
Virgin Media is planning a major push to encourage the half of its customers who have yet to try its VoD services to do so.The cable TV broadcaster also hopes to capitalise on its pay-TV rival Sky’s success with high definition services by launching more HD channels over the summer and increasing the amount of… Continue reading Virgin Media is set for video-on-demand push
ITV1’s one-off drama Compulsion peaked with 5.4 million viewers at 9pm last night but failed to hold the highest ratings during the full 9pm to 10pm peak-slot.The drama starring Ray Winstone and Parminder Nagra, which was loosely based on Jacobean tragedy The Changeling, pulled in its highest share during the first fifteen minutes of the… Continue reading Compulsion loses out to Ashes to Ashes
Setanta has slashed its subscription charge to just £3.33 a month in a bid to keep customers over the summer period.The sports broadcaster is set to offer existing subscribers live sports for just £9.99 for three months, a significant reduction on Setanta’s normal rate of £12.99 a month for satellite subscribers.Setanta is thought to be… Continue reading Setanta slashes subscription charges
The makers of Golf Punk magazine are launching a monthly football title tomorrow, Football Punk, featuring an interview with Liverpool’s Steven Gerrard.The magazine was trialled as a free supplement in Golf Punk last August and had been expected to launch as a standalone title in January but was delayed by a takeover of publisher JF-Media.The… Continue reading Football Punk magazine launches tomorrow