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Channel 4 has pulled out of its planned digital radio venture with 4 Digital Group.Shareholders of the national digital multiplex, including BSkyB, Carphone Warehouse, UTV, Bauer Media and UBC were informed by the board’s chairman, Nathalie Schwarz, earlier this morning.An internal announcement is expected to be made to Channel 4 staff at 11am today.A statement… Continue reading Channel 4 Abandons Digital Radio Venture

Daily Newspaper MarketThe national daily newspaper market was down 5.3% overall in September, with all titles in our analysis showing circulation declines.The Independent, Daily Express, Daily Mirror and Daily Star all suffered relatively large declines.The Sun remains the daily title with the highest circulation, at almost 3.2 million copies. National Newspaper ABC Figures – September… Continue reading ABC National Newspaper Round-Up: September 2008

ABC has announced that magazine publishers will soon have the opportunity to publish official six-monthly online figures, alongside their half-yearly print circulation figures.The new reporting standard scheme was successfully introduced to regional media owners last month, and is now set to be extended to include all media owners.ABC has introduced new certificates to include a… Continue reading ABC Introduces Six-Monthly Online Audits To Media Owners

ITV1’s new documentary, Greatest Cities of the World with Griff Rhys Jones, failed to pull in the viewers last night – only managing to secure a 14.9% audience share.The first in the series saw the comic, Rhys Jones, visit New York and get his hands dirty at Grand Central Station.However, the programme only attracted 3.4… Continue reading ITV1’s New Documentary Fails To Impress

The Daily Mail is set to raise the cover price of its Saturday edition for the first time in five years, from 70p to 80p.It will make the paper 20p more expensive than its mid-market rival, The Daily Express, which complained about The Daily Mail‘s price increases earlier this year.The Mail increased its weekday price… Continue reading Daily Mail Saturday Ups Price To 80p

Scottish newspaper website Scotsman.com is launching an online ‘Business Club’ covering news, opinions, forthcoming events and in-depth video interviews.The online Business Club’s blog section includes comment and insight from The Scotsman‘s and Scotland on Sunday‘s team of business writers, while the online calendar allows users to access information about forthcoming company announcements and networking events.The… Continue reading Scotsman.com Launches Business Club

A new Freeview channel is set to go up for auction, potentially kick-starting a bidding war among broadcasters.Arqiva is inviting bidders to make an offer for the channel before October 22, which it expects to award in January next year.Arqiva holds the licence for two of the six multiplexes that make up the UK’s digital… Continue reading Freeview Channel Set To Go Up For Auction

WPP Group has released a statement confirming it has secured 81.8% of TNS shareholders’ backing for its £1.1 billion takeover bid.Last week, WPP extended TNS’ deadline to 3pm yesterday afternoon, after receiving just 60.86% of valid acceptances as Friday’s deadline expired. (see WPP Extends TNS Offer Deadline).In response, the TNS board urged shareholders to accept… Continue reading WPP Secures Unconditional TNS Offer

WPP Group has confirmed that it has secured 81.8% of TNS shareholders’ backing for its £1.1 billion takeover bid. Last week, WPP extended TNS’ deadline to 3pm yesterday afternoon, after receiving just 60.86% of valid acceptances as Friday’s deadline expire (see WPP Extends TNS Offer Deadline). In response, the TNS board urged shareholders to accept… Continue reading WPP Secures TNS Shareholder Backing For Takeover

The increasing availability of mobile handsets capable of receiving free-to-air analogue and digital terrestrial TV signals will adversely impact the prospects for dedicated mobile broadcast TV networks, according to a new report from Juniper Research. While the report says that more than 330 million mobile users worldwide will own broadcast TV-enabled handsets by 2013, less… Continue reading Mobile Broadcast TV Revenues To Be Hit By Free To Air Services