British Digital Broadcasting (BDB) has today named the 15-channel digital terrestrial TV (DTT) service which it is due to launch this year as ON-digital.There has been speculation as to how BDB intends to compete with BSkyB’s 200-channel digital satellite service. BDB, however, claims that its service is not competing head to head with that Sky’s,… Continue reading BDB Brands DTT Service As ON-digital
The Independent Television Commission has awarded a local cable delivery franchise for North Wales and South Cheshire to Metro Communications Limited, a company owned by Metro Cable TV Limited.The Dumfries and Galloway local delivery franchise was awarded to Galloway Cable and Telecoms Limited, and the Consett and Stanley franchise to Telewest (North East) Limited. No… Continue reading ITC Award Local Delivery Franchises
The Season – the Guardian’s 76 page colour guide to the forthcoming football season – is to have its second run this year following on from the reported success of last year’s publication.Billed as an indispensable guide to the English Premiership, The Season will be free with the Guardian on Monday 10 August, and will… Continue reading The Guardian’s Back In Season
The BBC has revealed plans to increase its committment to live events and talent following a surge in competition from commercial radio stations which now have a 50.1% share of listening, compared with the BBC’s 47.7%.This strategy will involve all five BBC national networks and include a week-long live music festival in Glasgow called Music… Continue reading Some Livening Up At The BBC
The Independent Television Commission (ITC) published a revision of the Channel 4 licence this week, and introduced a number of changes in the Statement of Programme Policy.The changes involve a reaffirmation of committment to things such as education, the UK film industry, multicultural programmes and programmes on and for people with disabilities. As well as… Continue reading ITC Revises Channel 4 Licence
A new report by the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) shows that business confidence in the UK economy is at its lowest level for four years.The Marketing Trends Survey reveals that UK marketing managers are becoming increasingly less confident of reaching their sales targets, with 43% predicting that they will not achieve them.“The results of… Continue reading Confidence In UK Economy Is Lowest For 4 Years
Birmingham dance music radio station, Choice FM, is to be bought by Chrysalis Radio, owners of the Galaxy and Heart series of stations, for £6 million.Chrysalis already owns 100.7 Heart FM in Birmingham and so the takeover will undergo a public interest test to be conducted by the Radio Authority. The takeover will also be… Continue reading Chrysalis To Buy Birmingham’s Choice FM
Lucozade’s current advertising campaign has been at the centre of a large number of complaints made to the Independent Television Commission (ITC) during June.One advert featuring a group of mods on motor scooters has prompted 22 complaints to the ITC. Viewers reported being able to hear the word “bollocks”, which although dimmed by the sound… Continue reading Lucozade Provokes Energetic Complaints
VNU is planning to merge Newswire, its online daily news service, with its New Media department. This underlines VNU’s eagerness to invest in online publishing, and could put vnunet.com in the running for being one of the leading online source of news and information for IT buyers and suppliers.Caroline Gabriel, editor of VNU Newswire, commented:… Continue reading VNU To Merge Publishing and Online Departments
Virgin Net has launched a Travel Channel on its website, http://www.virgin.net/, offering users travel guides, information on holiday packages and a hotel search facility. The Channel’s travel guide has been produced in association with Lonely Planet, publishers of travel handbooks.The Travel Channel was initially intended for launch in April when the Virgin site was revamped… Continue reading Virgin Net Launches Travel Channel
