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Global Radio has offered to sell a number of stations in the Midlands, including Heart 106 in the east Midlands, to appease the Office of Fair Trading.The move comes after the OFT expressed concerns over competition in the area, following Global’s acquisition of GCap Media for £375 in April this year (see Global Radio To… Continue reading Global Offers To Sell Off Midlands Stations

Channel 4’s Big Brother topped BBC One and ITV1 last night with more than three million viewers tuning in during the all-important 9pm to 10pm time slot.The reality programme gained a 14.6% audience share, with 3.3 million peak viewers catching up on the latest Rex and Nicole drama last night.Meanwhile, ITV1’s medical drama Harley Street… Continue reading Big Brother Comes Out On Top

Publicis Groupe has acquired search marketing company Performics from Google, in a new deal announced today that is set to expand and strengthen its search marketing capabilities.Performics has over 150 search engine marketing clients and currently represents more than 200 global brands.Eric Schmidt, Google chairman and CEO, said: “Publicis Groupe has been a leader in… Continue reading Publicis Set To Acquire Search Firm From Google

BBC Radio 5 Live has won the radio rights to broadcast FA Cup and England international matches for a further four years.The deal with the Football Association starts from the beginning of the 2008/09 football season with the Community Shield match between Manchester United and Portsmouth at Wembley on Sunday.Radio 5 Live and sister digital… Continue reading BBC Sport Wins Football Radio Rights

The Competition Commission has been forced to extend the deadline for its investigation into Project Kangaroo until next January, because ITV, Channel 4 and BBC Worldwide failed to submit information on time.The commission requested details from the partners of the broadband joint venture, so it could assess whether the project will result in a merger… Continue reading Investigation Into Project Kangaroo Pushed Back To 2009

Daily Newspaper MarketThe latest national newspaper ABC figures show that the daily national newspaper market was down by 4.1% year on year overall in June.The Sun was the only daily title in our analysis not to report a year on year decline in July. National Newspaper ABC Figures – July 2008 Daily Titles Jul-07 Jul-08… Continue reading ABC National Newspaper Round-Up: July 2008

July saw the Evening Standard‘s circulation fall by 1% month on month, a real term dip of almost 3,000 copies, leaving it with a total circulation of around 292,000 copies.Evening freesheets the London Lite and thelondonpaper now have totals of almost 402,000 and around 500,000 copies respectively.Morning freesheet City AM was down by around 13.5%… Continue reading Slight Circulation Dip For The Evening Standard

Blinkx, the online video search engine, has made a $1.20 per share bid for digital media firm MIVA. MIVA (formerly known as FindWhat), operates in North America and Europe and has two core divisions running consumer destination sites and interest-specific toolbars and a third-party contextual Pay-Per-Click ad network. Blinkx has been working with MIVA as… Continue reading Blinkx To Buy Digital Media Firm MIVA

Wireless broadband services will create significant opportunities for revenue growth, according to the latest report from Analysys Mason. Globally, 2.1 billion wireless broadband customers will generate USD784 billion in service revenue by 2015. This revenue increase of about 2400% will be underpinned by continued developments in wireless technologies, improvements in devices and more flexible pricing… Continue reading Wireless Broadband To Exceed 2bn Customers By 2015

Virgin Media has outperformed analyst expectations, reporting an underlying operating profit of £333 million for the second quarter of 2008. The company reported revenues of £990.5 million, with average revenue per subscriber slightly down to £41.63. It saw an operating loss of £333 million in the second quarter, compared with a £3 million profit in… Continue reading Virgin Media Reports £333m Underlying Profit