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ITV1’s woes continue into the new year as January saw the channel lose 5% of its revenue year on year, dropping to £110.9 million. Five also felt a drop in revenue year on year, of 2.8%, to end the month with £20.7 million.By comparison, Channel 4 showed a slight uplift of 0.8%. Celebrity Big Brother… Continue reading TV Market Round-Up – January 2007

Online newspaper websites are rapidly increasing in popularity as their print counterparts continue to suffer falling circulation figures, according to audited data from ABC and ABCe.It appears that no amount of free DVDs and wall charts can halt the declines, which has been felt across the sectors. Newspaper websites on the other hand, never seem… Continue reading Newspapers’ Print Circulations Decline As Web Traffic Blossoms

Online newspaper websites are rapidly increasing in popularity as their print counterparts continue to suffer falling circulation figures, according to audited data from ABC and ABCe.It appears that no amount of free DVDs and wall charts can halt the declines, which has been felt across the sectors. Newspaper websites on the other hand, never seem… Continue reading Newspapers’ Print Circulations Decline As Web Traffic Blossoms

GCap Media has announced the appointment of Pete Simmons as group programme director, content/digital.Simmons, who was previously group head of programmes at Chrysalis Radio, will have a dual role at GCap Media. He will be responsible for ensuring that the broad range of content produced from all the parts of GCap’s business – such as… Continue reading Simmons Joins GCap Media

Sky has appointed Sophie Turner Laing to the position of managing director, entertainment. Laing will report to chief executive James Murdoch.Ms Turner Laing takes responsibility for Sky’s entertainment content businesses, including Sky Movies, Sky One, Sky Two, Sky Three, Sky Arts, Sky Travel, Creative Services and the Creative Agency.Turner Laing takes over responsibility for these… Continue reading Sky Gets New Entertainment MD

Capital Gold is set to launch a new weekly podcast service from March 5 entitled David Jensen’s Celebrity Interviews.The content will be taken from the Capital Gold DJ’s Saturday morning show and will include both archive and current interview content with celebrities from the world of music, TV and film.The first podcast will launch with… Continue reading Capital Gold To Launch Podcast

The BBC has joined forces with YouTube to create branded BBC channels on the website, operating under separate BBC and BBC Worldwide agreements.The partnership will see clips of new BBC shows and specially commissioned promotional content linked to popular series such as Doctor Who and Life On Mars, aired on YouTube.At launch, the YouTube community… Continue reading BBC Does Deal With YouTube

Revenue generated by the premium video services market in the US, an area comprising pay-TV, mobile video, DVD, broadband video and theatre/box office receipts, is expected to rise to $277 billion by 2010, up from less than $200 billion in 2006, according to a new forecast from iSuppli. Much of that growth will be driven… Continue reading US Pay TV Market To See Revenue Increase

The UK’s commercial radio representative body, the RadioCentre, has announced the appointment of Simon Redican as managing director of the Radio Advertising Bureau (RAB).Redican joins the organisation from News International where he was media account director of the Times solutions team. His appointment is seen as the next step in the overall re-energising of the… Continue reading RAB Appoints New MD

Channel 4 is to offer viewers the opportunity to catch-up on all of its commissioned programmes from the past seven days, for free via broadband.All of Channel 4’s commissioned content will now be offered free of charge for seven days via its VOD PC service, 4oD, with the service introducing advertising in the form of… Continue reading Channel 4’s 4oD To Offer Seven Day Catch-Up