Viacom, which owns channels including MTV, Nickelodeon and VH1, has announced that it will buy TV broadcaster Channel 5 from Richard Desmond for £450 million pounds.
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BSkyB television subscribers were up 74,000 in the three months to March, according to the company’s latest financial report, released today. However, growth in customers signing up for Sky broadband dropped by more than a third.
Global pay-TV subscribers increased over 5% in 2013 to reach 901.1 million, according to ABI Research
In the third of our exclusives articles examining the latest AA/Warc Expenditure Report, Suzy Young, Warc’s data and journals director, looks at how mobile devices have impacted marketing budgets over recent years.
The first online kitemarks have been awarded today to nine companies that meet industry-agreed standards to reduce the risk of ads being served next to inappropriate or illegal content online.
Facebook has launched a new advertising network that will serve ads to third-party mobile apps – the first time that the social media giant has helped app developers monetise “in a serious way on mobile.”
Last night BBC One’s Panorama (9pm) helped traumatise the midweek prime time audience with its latest shocking expose on some particularly worrying care facilities.
Paxman told the BBC of his decision last summer, but with the appointment of a new editor and following the Jimmy Savile scandal, agreed to stay to help the new team bed down.
Good Morning Britain and London Live have started out suffering in the television ratings, writes Raymond Snoddy – can there be any chance to win audiences over?
The driving force behind this new-fashioned name for an old-fashioned endeavour, however poorly articulated by the tag, could represent a real opportunity for publishers, says Peter Houston, founder of Flipping Pages Media.
