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Jane Lighting is to resign from her position as Five chief executive tomorrow, with Mark White, Five’s executive director of sales, serving as interim CEO until Dawn Airey takes over.Airey, who recently left ITV (see Dawn Airey Leaves ITV For RTL), has now been confirmed as chief executive and chairman of the channel.Lighting said: “Sometimes… Continue reading Lighting Resigns As Five CEO

Andrew Freeman, senior consultant, media research at Harris Interactive, takes a big picture view of the latest RAJAR figures and looks at the implications for both commercial and local radio…This RAJAR, while many stations will be talking about increases in reach, fewer enjoy longer listening hours. Yet again, at a headline level only the BBC’s… Continue reading RAJAR: An Analysts View – Is Radio Connecting?

The latest RAJAR figures, for Q1 2008, show that All BBC radio saw a year on year and period on period increase in weekly reach.All Commercial, meanwhile, reported a year on year decline in reach, although it was up period on period, by 1%.All Commercial also experienced a year on year decline in share of… Continue reading All BBC Radio Sees Weekly Reach Growth

Magic 105.4 once again had the highest weekly reach in London, at around 1.9 million listeners, after a year on year increase of 6.2%, according to RAJAR figures for Q1 2008.Its share of listening, at 5.8%, down by around 1.7% points year on year, was level with that of Heart 106.2 FM, which enjoyed a… Continue reading Magic 105.4 Has Highest Weekly Reach In London

This analysis is comparing the weekly reach of the breakfast shows of the London stations and not the time slots. Heart 106.2 FM’s and Magic 105.4’s breakfast shows currently run from 6am-9am while 95.8 Capital Radio’s runs from 6am-10am.95.8 Capital Radio’s breakfast show, hosted by Johnny Vaughan and Denise Van Outen, remained on top in… Continue reading Capital Radio Is Top London Breakfast Show

Today’s RAJAR figures, for Q1 2008, reveal that 17.8% of all radio listening is now done via a digital platform, up from 16.6% in the fourth quarter of 2007.DAB digital radio, meanwhile, makes up 10.8% of all radio listening, an increase on the 9.9% recorded last quarter.The internet now makes up 2.1% of all radio… Continue reading Almost 18% Of All Radio Listening Now Via Digital

Independent research from Contented reveals that digital agencies have misjudged the threat posed by customer publishers and the growing trend for “editorialisation of brand” in the digital arena. The research, commissioned by the Association of Publishing Agencies, included in-depth interviews with digital agencies, brands and customer publishers and shows that 10% of customer publishing revenue… Continue reading Digital Agencies Misjudging Customer Publishing Threat

Sky added 56,000 customers in the first quarter of 2008, taking its total number of subscribers to 8.9 million. The satellite broadcaster, releasing results for its third quarter, said that Sky+ households grew by 262,000, to 3.4 million, while broadband customers were up 229,000 to reach 1,428,000. The company added that it added 43,000 high-definition… Continue reading Sky Adds 56,000 Customers In Q1

Revenue from mobile media and entertainment (MME) services in the US will more than double during the next five years, according to the latest research from Analysys Mason. US MME services (excluding messaging, and mobile browsing and data charges) generated US$3.1 billion in revenue in 2007, and Analysys Research forecasts that revenue will grow to… Continue reading US Mobile Media Revenues To Double During Next Five Years

David Evans, MediaTel.co.uk business director, looks at the skills needed by researchers and how these can best be provided.Researchers on both the agency and owner side have to be chameleon-like in the wide range of skills they possess. The many stages of a research project mean that media researchers have to be able to innovate,… Continue reading Making Research Count