Mobile phone operator Orange is in talks about buying the technology behind Project Kangaroo, the failed VoD venture between ITV, BBC Worldwide and Channel 4.Project Kangaroo’s partners are understood to have invested around £20 million to develop the technology behind the proposed broadband TV service, which is now likely to be acquired for just a… Continue reading Orange to buy Project Kangaroo broadband TV technology
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ITV1’s Sunday evening run of Lewis and Piers Morgan’s Life Stories proved to be a winner once again, securing the highest ratings from 8pm onwards.The third episode in the four-part Lewis series, with Kevin Whately and Laurence Fox, pulled in almost 6.5 million peak viewers and a 25% average audience share between 8pm and 10pm… Continue reading ITV1’s Sunday evening line-up triumphs again
Rupert Murdoch predicts that newspaper publishers will have to charge for online content due to the lack of revenue generated by the current free model and the advertising downturn.Murdoch said: “Nobody is making money with free content on the web, except search. People are used to reading everything on the net for free and that’s… Continue reading Murdoch: Newspapers will need to charge for content online
The IPA’s latest Bellwether survey published today has found that the rate of decline of marketing spend slowed in Q1 2009, suggesting budget cuts may have reached their peak in Q4 2008.Businesses confidence has also picked up from the all-time low of Q4, with the percentage of companies believing their prospects have improved rising from… Continue reading Q1 2009 Bellwether Report: Turning point for marketing budgets
Nielsen’s Louise Ainsworth on why the industry needs to rethink its approach to measuring online…
Ofcom has called for regulatory and legislative changes to secure the future of commercial and local radio stations.In its submission to the government, following Lord Carter’s Digital Britain report, the media regulator suggests restructuring “both the analogue and digital radio landscapes, in order to secure the future of commercial and community radio in the face… Continue reading Ofcom calls for regulatory changes to ensure future of commercial radio
Bauer Media is currently in talks with Global Radio to buy five of its Midlands stations.Global Radio offered to dispose of the five Midlands stations in a bid to appease the Office of Fair Trading, after its £375 million acquisition of GCap Media in April 2008 (see Global Offers To Sell Off Midlands Stations).At the… Continue reading Bauer bids for five Global stations
The IPA’s latest Bellwether survey published today has found that the rate of decline of marketing spend slowed in Q1 2009, suggesting budget cuts may have reached their peak in Q4 2008. Businesses confidence has also picked up from the all-time low of Q4, with the percentage of companies believing their prospects have improved rising… Continue reading Q1 2009 Bellwether Report: Turning point for marketing budgets
Speaking at yesterday morning’s MediaTel Group seminar on the ‘Future of Media Research’, Jennie Beck, global director at Kantar Media, gave the audience an update on the new organisation.Beck explained that Kantar has put its media research operations into one company, Kantar Media, with the two teams at BMRB and TNS merging into one cohesive… Continue reading Kantar Media gives update on new organisation
RadioCentre is urging the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) to relax rules on local media mergers in a bid to prevent station closures.The industry body for commercial radio had pressed the OFT to ensure its current local and regional media merger review spans all media, not just local newspapers.In its submission to the competition body,… Continue reading RadioCentre pushes for commercial radio review