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BSkyB is forecast to double its earnings over the next five years if Rupert Murdoch’s takeover deal for the satellite broadcaster goes ahead.

Emap reported a significant fall in pre-tax profits in 2010 as government cuts hit its publishing and events business. The publisher reported pre-tax profits of £27 million for the 12 months to 31 December.

A consortium, including the BBC, BSkyB, BT, Samsung and Microsoft, are joining forces to investigate how used TV spectrum can be utilised for commercial wireless services.

Centaur is to close the print editions of New Media Age and Design Week and sell off a number of small titles, as well as Ascent Publishing.

According to Simon Redican, radio, TV and online all lift people’s levels of happiness and energy on a daily basis – all day, every day…

James Whitmore, MD of POSTAR, says to make sense of today, why not place yourself in the future? Get up from your desk now. Abandon your computer and smart phone. Go and sit in the park. Lie on the sofa. Think…

In response to Jim Marshall’s exchange with John Billett regarding ‘Ofcom trading review: a little too late?’, Jacquie Hughes, director of Hughes Media says no-one knows who will succeed.

I always feel some sympathy for the systems guys in the media industry – especially at the agency end, where the role seems to consist all too often of aborted (potentially interesting) projects replaced by (far less interesting) fire-fighting. But competing hard for our sympathy vote are surely researchers these days – and in that case I mean the guys who are meant to be delivering the research, not those using it.

Nielsen launched its new hybrid methodology for digital measurement yesterday to a select audience in London. The methodology has already been rolled out in the USA and Spain and will soon be running in Australia and New Zealand too.

A new series of blogs about the broadcast industry, narrated by David Brennan…