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What is it with Monday nights and traumatising programming? Sky Atlantic’s genre-busting epic Game of Thrones (9pm) made sure that last night was no exception.

Harnessing the spirit of Victorian adventure, Route’s James Whitmore recently set off to Romania for the annual conference of the European Media Research Organisation. So what did he discover from our European neighbours? Ground is, thankfully, still being broken but audience measurement continues to face some serious challenges…

New panellists for MediaTel’s Connected Consumer Conference have been announced, including experts from BSkyB, Channel 4, Decipher, Mindshare, Videology, BARB and ITV.

Micro video app Vine has been launched on Android after 13 million downloads of the IOS version.

YouView is set to add internet channels to its service this summer, which will allow broadcast TV channels to be received via a broadband connection that will open up the service to a theoretically limitless number of live channels.

Despite past concerns, Freesheets today have a lot going for them argues Tim Carr, director and head of international at adconnection. They travel far and wide, attract new – and multiple – readers, and with the right online offering can lead people towards workable ‘freemium’ content…

Trinity Mirror today announced the appointment of Sue Douglas as publishing director and Rupert Howell as chairman of Sunday Brands, a wholly owned subsidiary of Trinity Mirror, with responsibility for The Sunday People and a host of regional titles.

Global Radio has announced the appointment James Hickman, former product development director of The Perform Group, as its new director of digital.

Celebrated football broadcasters Danny Baker and Danny Kelly have agreed to reform their on-off broadcasting partnership to front a lively football show for BT Sport.

In addition to key Shazam features such as unlimited tagging, the Windows Phone 8 app will allow users to purchase tracks from Xbox music and track local activity.