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England might have been beaten in the Rugby World Cup final, but they battled hard and made the nation proud, with one of the main talking points a disallowed try that could have swung it in England’s favour.However, it was not to be, and South Africa were crowned champions of the world after a tense… Continue reading 4.1 Million ABC1 Men Watch South Africa Win Rugby World Cup

Last week in the City we saw WPP announce that its third quarter revenues were up 4.9% to £1.48 billion.The group reported constant currency growth of 5% in the UK, compared with 3.7% in the first half, whilst North American revenues were up 8%, compared with 8.3% in the first half (Full Story).Search engine giant… Continue reading Media In The City: WPP’s Q3 Revenues Up 4.9%

GMG Radio is terminating its advertising sales contract with Global Radio after negotiations broke down last week.The sales contracts were inherited by Global Radio when it acquired Chrysalis earlier this year (see Chrysalis Radio To Sell For £170 Million).It now looks likely that GMG will give the contract to GCap Media, which currently sells national… Continue reading GMG Ends Ad Sales Contract With Global Radio

New ITV1 comedy drama, Catwalk Dogs, was watched by 4.6 million adult viewers on average last night, giving the channel a 21.7% audience share between 9pm and 10.30pm.The feature-length romantic comedy about the weird world of dog shows starred Kris Marshall, aka the particularly annoying one from My Family or the BT guy, and a… Continue reading Palin’s Travels Continue To Triumph

Pearson, which owns the Financial Times and Penguin, has announced that for the first nine months of 2007, underlying sales were 6% higher and operating profits 20% higher than in the same period last year. The group said that for the full year, it remains on course to achieve strong underlying growth on its key… Continue reading Pearson Operating Profits Up 20%

September saw a marked improvement for all the terrestrial channels following on from last month’s year on year losses. The best year on year performance came from ITV breakfast station GMTV, which rose by 14.3% to stand at £ 5.51 million.ITV1 network revenue increased by 3.4%, to stand at a total of £ 136.05 million.… Continue reading TV Market Round-Up – September 2007

Five has named Alex Menzies, currently deputy controller of features, as the channel’s new head of features.It is one of several changes within the broadcaster’s programming department announced by Five’s director of programmes, Jay Hunt.Head of factual entertainment, Steve Gowans, is to be given additional responsibility for exploiting the main channel’s content across its digital… Continue reading Five Announces Changes In Programming Department

It was the last in the current series of Who Do You Think You Are? last night, and the show had a peak audience of six million adults, a 29.8% share of the audience.Yesterday’s episode followed Olympic rowing legend Matthew Pinsent as he traced his family history, and an average of 5.9 million adults (a29.6%… Continue reading Pinsent Pulls In The Viewers For Who Do You Think You Are?

The BBC is set to air more repeats and less original programming, following plans to shrink the size of the corporation.Up to 1,800 staff will also be made redundant – primarily in news, BBC programme-making and regional centres. The BBC will also sell-off its flagship Television Centre, under the plans to make up a £2… Continue reading More Repeats And Job Losses At the BBC

Search engine giant Google has reported a 41.6% rise in third-quarter pre-tax profits to $1.47bn. Google’s revenues for the quarter were $4.23, a 57% increase over third quarter 2006 revenues of $2.69 billion and a 9% increase over second quarter 2007 revenues of $3.87 billion. Revenues from the UK totaled $661 million, whilst total revenues… Continue reading Google’s Pre-Tax Profits Grow 41.6%