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Carat’s Steve Hobbs and ISBA’s Bob Wootton speak out against Ofcom’s airtime sales ruling.

BBC One’s new The Secret Tourist secured the majority of peak slot of 9pm to 10pm last night, with an average viewing figure of 3.5 million, and a 15.9% share.

ITV1’s Midsomer Murders won the 9pm to 10pm slot last night, peaking at 4.7 million viewers.

ITV has successfully pitched against Sky, and three other rival channels, to acquire the UK television rights to the Rugby World Cup in September 2011, and the tournament in England in 2015.

BSkyB has bought the exclusive rights to the entire HBO TV catalogue. This includes a range of American shows, including The Sopranos, Sex and the City, True Blood and The Wire.

BSkyB has reported an 11% increase in revenues to £5.9 billion in the three months to June. Its operating profits also rose, 10% year-on-year to £855 million.

Ofcom have decided to remove the airtime sales rules on 1st September 2010.

BBC One’s New Tricks secured the peak position of 9pm to 10pm last night, attracting an average of 3.7 million viewers, and a 16.6% share.

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.”