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Virgin Media has launched a Virgin Media TV Guide smartphone app, to allow remote recording on its new TiVo set top box.

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…”

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.