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Ofcom has published the reasons behind its decision to award the second national digital radio multiplex licence to 4 Digital Group (4DG).Ofcom’s Radio Licensing Committee (RLC) decided that the 4DG bid, which went head-to-head with a bid from National Grid Wireless (see Battle For The Second DAB Multiplex), was best calculated to promote the development… Continue reading Ofcom Publishes Reasons For DAB Multiplex Licence Award

Ed Richards, Ofcom chief executive, has said that the regulator has plans in place which would allow up to four HDTV channels to be broadcast on the DTT platform.Richards, speaking to the Broadcasting Press Guild, said that public broadcasters had been seeking extra capacity following switchover and so Ofcom’s proposal had not been met with… Continue reading Ofcom Has Plans Ready For Four Freeview HD Channels

Victoria Beckham: Coming To America, a documentary following the Spice Girl on her move to the US, could only attract a peak audience of 3.4 million adult viewers to ITV1 last night, a figure easily beaten by a repeat of BBC One drama Waking The Dead.The Posh Spice reality show had an average of 3.2… Continue reading Posh Documentary Beaten By BBC One Repeat

The BBC has announced a total suspension of all competitions, with phone-related competitions on BBC TV and radio to stop from midnight tonight, and online and interactive ones to be taken down as soon as possible.The announcement came following a meeting of director general Mark Thompson and the BBC Trust, on the same day that… Continue reading BBC Suspends All Competitions Following String Of Breaches

Ofcom has found “systemic failures” in premium rate phone-in services on TV, with the outcome of the watchdog’s inquiry into the sector saying some broadcasters “appeared to be in denial about their responsibilities to ensure programmes delivered on the transactions they offered to viewers” and that there is a “lack of transparency through the supply… Continue reading Ofcom Finds ‘Systemic Failures’ In Premium Rate Phone-In Services

Facebook saw its UK internet visitor numbers rise by almost 4% in June, giving the site a 16.6% share of the market, according to new figures from Hitwise.The past six months have seen Facebook’s audience grow by 502%, compared to 33% for Bebo and 30% for MySpace.Bebo is ranked number one according to the Hitwise… Continue reading Facebook Visitors Increase

America’s pioneering digital video recorder company, TiVo, has devised a system that allows advertisers to discover the least-skipped and most-watched commercials.The system, which tracks consumer behaviour on a second by second basis, in both live and time-shifted viewing, shows the top commercial in the States in April and May was for Dreamworks’ movie, Disturbia, appearing… Continue reading TiVo Develops System To Track Ads

The Dow Jones board last night voted to sell the company to Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation for $5 billion (£2.5 billion). The deal is now awaiting the approval of the Bancroft family, which controls 64% of Dow Jones’ voting stock. A report in the Wall Street Journal said that a ‘strong majority’ of the board… Continue reading Dow Jones Board Votes To Sell

Yahoo!’s net income for the three months ending June 30 was $161 million (£78 million) compared with $164 million (£80 million) in the same period last year. Marketing services revenues were $1.4 million for the second quarter of 2007, a 7% increase compared to $1,386 million for the same period of 2006. Yahoo!’s forecast for… Continue reading Yahoo!’s Net Income Declines

Associated Newspapers, the owner of the Daily Mail, is initiating a review which could see it sell the classified ad paper Loot. Associated Newspapers said that it has received several unsolicited enquiries from interested third parties regarding Loot. The group today announced the sale of Loot’s Irish counterpart, Buy and Sell, to Naldin Limited for… Continue reading Associated Newspapers Could Sell Loot