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Starting today for one week, Magic 105.4 is becoming Sex and the City FM to promote the release of the Sex and the City movie.During this week Magic will run a promotional competition, entitled ‘Sex and the City’s Gorgeous Giveaway’, featuring hourly rounds of trivia on the characters, New York, fashion, cocktails and nightlife.From 7am… Continue reading Magic 105.4 In Sex And The City Promotion

Judges have thrown out Sky’s appeal to prevent confidential documents being seen by lawyers for Virgin Media.Virgin Media is in the process of suing Sky for abusing its market dominance in negotiations over channel carriage deals between the two companies.Three judges threw out Sky’s request that there would be restrictions placed on who saw confidential… Continue reading Judges Throw Out Sky Appeal

Kangaroo – the joint internet TV venture between BBC Worldwide, ITV and Channel 4 – is now likely to launch this autumn, months earlier than expected.The project was reported to be in the final stages of development in March (see Kangaroo “In Final Stages” Of Development) and is now being prepared for a beta launch… Continue reading Kangaroo Could Launch This Autumn

Speaking at yesterday’s AOP forum on ‘Maximising Your Relationship With Ad Networks’, Martin Shaw, head of digital at OMD, made an appeal for networks to make it easier for agencies to spend money.He said that last year he had worked with 350 sales points and found this “horribly inefficient”, although he added that he did… Continue reading Ad Networks Need To Make It Easier For Agencies To Spend Money

Yesterday’s AOP forum on ‘Maximising Your Relationship With Ad Networks’ looked at the part networks will play in the future of online advertising.There were several eminent speakers at the event, with Tim Brown, MD of the UK’s second largest ad network, Blue Lithium, arguing that portals have turned to owning networks in order to increase… Continue reading AOP Forum Looks At Ad Networks

Sky has relaunched its PC on-demand download service, Sky Anytime, with a new name, Sky Player.The updated version sees a number of enhancements to the service, including immediate playback of content and added live channels, such as Sky News and Sky Sports.Further improvements include a redesign of the service’s look and feel, updating the site’s… Continue reading Sky Renames Its Catch Up TV Service Sky Player

The first MediaTel Group Forum, in association with YouGov, took place last week and focused upon the consumer magazines sector. The concept of the forum is to follow up some of the topics raised at previous MediaTel Group seminars and provide an overview of some of the key issues facing the industry.Attendees (in alphabetical order):Phil… Continue reading MediaTel Group Forum Takes A Closer Look At Consumer Magazine Sector

A new forecast from MRG predicts that IPTV subscribers will grow from 24.4 million in 2008 to 92.8 million in 2012, with IPTV service revenue totaling $37.1 billion by 2012. The global forecast says that while Europe’s subscriber size in 2012 will remain dominant, Asia’s subscriber base will nearly equal Europe’s in 2012, followed by… Continue reading IPTV Subscribers Forecast To Reach 92.8m In 2012

TNS has rejected a second bid from WPP, which valued the group at just under £1 billion. The TNS board said that it unanimously rejected the improved offer as it substantially undervalued the company. WPP approached TNS with a revised cash and stock bid worth 241.5p per share. At around £996 million, the offer marked… Continue reading TNS Rejects Second Offer From WPP

ITV’s first quarter revenues rose 3% to £492 million, whilst advertising revenues grew 2%. The broadcaster also forecast that it will outperform the UK television advertising market in the first half of 2008, for the first time since 2000. It added that online growth is continuing, with video views up 76% since the start of… Continue reading ITV Reports 3% Revenue Growth