Lesley Douglas, controller of BBC Radio 2 and 6 Music, has been appointed controller, BBC Popular Music.Keeping her current roles, Douglas will take on her new job as the BBC’s first controller of music with immediate effect.Douglas’ expanded remit includes responsibility for co-ordinating the full range of popular music output that is being produced across… Continue reading BBC Appoints New Popular Music Controller
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Virgin Media’s customer base dropped to 4.81 million in the first quarter of 2007, with a net loss of 46,900 subscribers.Gross customer additions were down from 215,500 in the fourth quarter of 2006 to 184,300 in the first quarter of the year.Virgin said that this was in large part due to Sky’s removal of its… Continue reading Virgin Media Subscriptions Decline
Shaun Woodward, the broadcast minister, has said that the government would consider implementing a total ban on premium rate phone-ins if broadcasters do not clean up their act.Woodward warned broadcasters that the government took such breaches very seriously and would be prepared to intervene and legislate against them, in a move similar to Ofcom’s introduction… Continue reading Broadcast Minister Hints At TV Phone-In Ban
Xfm is to make its ‘Xfm Residency’ shows available as a series of free podcasts, giving listeners the chance to hear their favourite music idols again and again.The podcasts feature the artists in residence and excerpts from their musical choices. To download the podcasts listeners will need to go to a link on the Xfm… Continue reading Xfm Launches ‘Residency’ Podcasts
A single online planning currency is absolutely necessary, particularly as most medium’s content distribution will be via the internet in the future, according to Louise Ainsworth, managing director for Nielsen//NetRatings, who was speaking from the floor at last week’s MediaTel Group ‘Future of Media Research’ seminar.Ainsworth indicated that having come to research from an agency… Continue reading Single Planning Currency For The Internet Is ‘Absolutely Necessary’
Each week, MediaTel INSIGHT brings NewsLine readers a round-up of the latest news from the City affecting the media industry.BSkyB revealed that its revenue for the nine months to March 31 was up by 10% to £3.3 billion, including £41 million from residential broadband (Full Story).Meanwhile, Publicis, the world’s fourth largest advertising group, announced that… Continue reading Media In The City
The global demand for set-top boxes is expected to reach an annual 120 million units by 2011, according to new research from Understanding & Solutions. Understanding & Solutions predicts that the market will be sustained by the maturing digital satellite market and the cable sector that, which will be driven by the conversion of analogue… Continue reading Global Demand For Set-Top Boxes Set To Rise
A single online planning currency is absolutely necessary, particularly as most medium’s content distribution will be via the internet in the future, according to Louise Ainsworth, managing director for Nielsen//NetRatings, who was speaking from the floor at last week’s MediaTel Group ‘Future of Media Research’ seminar. Ainsworth indicated that having come to research from an… Continue reading Single Planning Currency For The Internet Is ‘Absolutely Necessary’
A suitably sinister looking David Suchet crept about our screens on Friday night in BBC Two’s Maxwell, when the star of Poirot stepped into the shoes of Robert Maxwell.Maxwell told the story of the corrupt fraudster’s last months, as his tangled web of deceit unravelled around him.The hour and a half show attracted a peak… Continue reading BBC One Edges Bank Holiday Battle
Tony Pile, Royal Mail’s market development manager for telecoms, discusses the possibilities available in the mobile marketing arena and the multi-channel landscape.Companies spend millions of pounds every year marketing their products and services to potential customers in order to drive sales and grow brand awareness. In today’s media age there are a plethora of ways… Continue reading Marrying Mobile Technology And The Multichannel Landscape