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Virgin Media has increased its revenues by 7.1% to £964 million, for the quarter ending in June – traditionally the company’s weakest quarter for growth.

Richard Desmond bought channel Five for £103.5 million on Friday afternoon, summarising his plans as: “All we are going to do is add more programmes, and put extra money on screen… Five is going to be huge.”

BBC One’s Who Do You Think You Are? has secured the peak slot of 9pm to 10pm for the second week running, with 5.4 million viewers and a 22.2% share.

The BBC has decided to continue with their free news and sports mobile applications for Blackberry and Android phones.

The weekend daytime saw BBC One’s Formula 1 coverage secure top ratings from 12pm until 3.15pm on Sunday afternoon, with an average viewing figure of 4.1 million, and an average share of 38.4%.

ITV1’s reality show Homes From Hell banked the 9pm to 10pm peak-hour top spot last night with a high of 3.5 million viewers.

Plans to add the Ashes to a list of sports reserved for free-to-air broadcasting have been put back until at least 2013, by sports minister Hugh Robertson.

ITV1’s Midsomer Murders won the 9pm to 10pm slot last night, securing a peak of 4.1 million viewers.

On Monday 2 August, Top Up TV will bring Sky Sports 1 and Sky Sports 2 to over 10 million Freeview homes in the UK, joining ESPN to form the new ‘sports pack’.

BBC’s Holby City and Outnumbered achieved the top ratings for the peak slot of 9pm to 10pm last night.