Raymond Snoddy: “Rupert Murdoch could say “to hell with it” – though those would not be the actual words used. He could close down Sky News and save the company an immediate £20 million a year. Worse still the entire future of News International could be called into question…”
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News Corporation is withdrawing its planned bid to take full ownership of BSkyB following the News of the World phone-hacking scandal.
BSkyB is in “robust shape” and could see 8% revenue growth in 2011/12 despite the on-going News Corporation saga, according to RBS forecasts.
Sky and ESPN have announced their live Premier League fixtures for 2011-12.
Culture secretary Jeremy Hunt has written to Ofcom and the Office of Fair Trading to seek advice on News Corporation’s BSkyB takeover bid in light of the on-going News of the World saga.
A new eMarketer report estimates that 158.1 million US internet users will download or stream video at least monthly in 2011 – but this doesn’t mean they will be cutting the cord on their pay-TV service.
Northen & Shell has said that it intends to offer collaborations with advertisers across its newspaper, magazine and television properties, comparing it to the model adopted by Apple.
According to a new report, the number of homes with digital TV will reach 1,189 million by 2016; double the number found in 2010.
Channel 4 has appointed Jonathan Allan, managing director of media buying agency OMD UK, to run its £1 billion a year TV and online sales business.
BARB will take a major step towards the measurement of television viewing on PCs, laptops and tablet devices with the initial rollout of a web TV viewing meter in 100 BARB panel homes during the second half of 2011.