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Wednesday’s deadline for applicants wanting to apply for the vacant BBC chairman role has seen Lord Puttnam rule himself out of the running.In an article in this week’s Spectator magazine, Lord Puttnam said that following some personal agonising over whether to apply for the role, he had decided not to, despite being approached by the… Continue reading Lord Puttnam Out Of BBC Chairman Race

H Bauer’s women’s weekly magazine, In The Know, is selling an average of just 107,000 copies per week, despite launching with a print run of 900,000.However, Bauer said that it has a sustainable business model and that new developments are in the pipeline.In an audited publisher’s statement, Bauer said that the audited figure covered September… Continue reading In The Know Selling Just 107,000 Copies A Week

Lord Puttnam, one of the front-runners for the vacant BBC chairman role, has ruled himself out of the race to take up where Michael Grade left off. The deadline for applications was on Wednesday and Lord Puttnam has revealed, in an article in this week’s Spectator, that he has not applied for the role, despite… Continue reading Lord Puttnam Out Of BBC Chair Race

Emap Performance, the digital wing of Emap Consumer Media (ECM), has acquired technology and new media business Yospace Technologies Limited. Yospace’s products include the See Me TV and Look At Me TV services and its customers include major UK mobile network operators. The acquisition of Yospace gives Emap a strong position in mobile user-generated content… Continue reading Emap Acquires New Media Business

The latest RAJAR data for Q4 2006 shows that digital only stations continue to perform well, with year on year gains in the number of DAB households and people listening via DTV.The percentage of adults who live in DAB households also rose slightly period on period, to 16%, whilst listening via DTV remained stable quarter… Continue reading Strong Quarter For Digital Radio

Search engine giant Google recorded revenues of $3.21 billion for the quarter ending December 31, 2006, an increase of 67% compared to the fourth quarter of 2005 and an increase of 19% compared to the third quarter of 2006. Google-owned sites generated revenues of $1.98 billion, or 62% of total revenues, in the fourth quarter… Continue reading Google Revenues Reach $3.21 Billion

Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) telephone services, which in 2006 had less than 38 million subscribers worldwide, should have a subscriber base of over 267 million in 2012, according to a new study released by ABI Research. Michael Arden, principal broadband analyst, said: “”Hosted service providers, the pioneers of commercial VoIP, are going to grow… Continue reading VoIP To Reach 267 Million Subscribers Worldwide

The latest Q4 RAJAR results show that the national BBC stations continued to perform well, with BBC Radio 2 once again recording the highest weekly reach of any station, with well over 13 million listeners, whilst Radio 1 was also in double figures with a total reach of 10 million listeners, although it did suffer… Continue reading BBC Stations Continue To Perform Well

It was standing room only at last night’s MRG evening meeting, as over 150 people packed in to hear a presentation on the IPA TouchPoints initiative, including suggestions for the product going forward including a topline “TouchPoints Lite” initiative.Lynne Robinson brought the room up to speed with how the initiative has gone so far, including… Continue reading MRG: TouchPoints Lites Up The Room

The weekly reach of commercial stations grew across all demographic groups in Q4, up 1.4% period on period, whilst there was also an increase, although a marginal one, for the BBC, which recorded period on period growth of 0.47%.The 4-14 age group saw strong growth in weekly reach for commercial stations, growing by more than… Continue reading Commercial Radio’s Weekly Reach Grows Across All Demographic Groups