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BSkyB has today announced several senior management appointments, including the newly created role of chief technology officer.Didier Lebrat is joining Sky in December in the new chief technology officer role from Vodafone Italy, where he currently holds the same title.Sky says that new role, bringing together the leadership of Sky’s Information Technology, Customer Technology, Network… Continue reading BSkyB Announces Senior Management Appointments

Martyn U’ren outlined, to Wednesday afternoon’s MRG Conference, how News International are continuing to provide massive audiences by pursuing a policy of co-existence between paper and digital media for their newspaper brands.He quoted Rupert Murdoch as saying that consumers want their content delivered “when they want it, how they want it and very much as… Continue reading MRG Conference: By Using Mass Brand Management, The Age of Mass Media Isn’t Over

News Corporation recorded operating profit of $851 million for the first quarter, a 6.4% fall year on year, although the corporation’s online revenues continued to show growth. The decline in operating profit was due to due to a decline at its film division 20th Century Fox. Revenue for News Corp’s global newspaper division was down… Continue reading News Corp Operating Profits Decline

The top 10 advertisers in the UK cut their spending on television by 11% year on year in the third quarter of 2006, according to new figures from Nielsen Media Research. TV expenditure is £857 million this year, down 8.9% from £941 million in Q3 last year, whilst spending by the top 10 advertisers is… Continue reading Top 10 UK Advertisers Cut TV Spending

Amongst US television households with digital video recorders (DVRs), more than 78% of all viewers who watch recorded broadcast primetime shows within a week play them back within two days and 84% play them back within three days, according to new research from Nielsen Media Research. Nielsen says that among viewers age 18-49, 76% played… Continue reading 78% Of US DVR Households Playback Shows Within 1 Week

Emap Radio has been awarded the new FM local radio licence for Liverpool and will launch CityTalk, the group’s first all-speech service.Emap beat off competition from nine other applicants including UTV, Chrysalis and GCap, to be awarded the licence by regulator Ofcom (see Talk Radio Looks Likely For Liverpool).The licence covers an adult population (aged… Continue reading Emap Radio Wins Liverpool FM Licence

Daily Newspaper MarketMost titles in the daily newspaper market saw a dip in their circulation year on year for October, with the market overall seeing a 3% decline.The Financial Times was the only daily newspaper to boost its distribution, up almost 5% year on year for the month, whilst the Daily Mail remained fairly static,… Continue reading ABC National Newspaper Round-Up: October 2006

Over the past three years, Sky has conducted various research to analyse the effect Sky+ has had on television viewing, following the doom merchants claiming that PVRs would cause the death of the 30-second spot.Lucy Bristow, Sky Media, presented a whistle stop tour through this research at the Media Research Group conference in Vienna today.Using… Continue reading Sky Research Aims To Maximise Brand Exposure

The growing new media industry in the UK could be damaged by the EU’s Audio Visual Media Servies Directive, according to the House of Lords EU Committee.The committee has written to Shaun Woodward MP, minister for the creative industries and tourism, to set out its concerns. The letter is timed to inform the European Council’s… Continue reading EU Directive Could Damage New Media In The UK

The Evening Standard newspaper has once again felt a circulation loss after the introduction of the two new free newspapers onto the London market, dropping 2.4% month on month to 281,915 copies in October’s ABCs.The paper, which increased its cover price from 40p to 50p in August (see Standard Raises Price As London Lite Launches),… Continue reading Evening Standard’s October Circulation Drops