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NTL Telewest has completed its £962.4m takeover of Virgin Mobile, and says it will provide consumers with their first opportunity to buy a ‘quadruple-play’ of TV, internet and fixed and mobile telephony services from a single operator. The two companies will continue to operate as separate organisations until early 2007, when they will start marketing… Continue reading NTL Completes Acquisition Of Virgin Mobile

This year’s MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival could be the last to focus solely on TV, according to Alison Sharman, 2006 advisory chair and ITV director of factual and daytime, who reflected on the festival’s possible direction for the future at the event’s launch this morning.With the dramatic and rapid evolution of broadcast that is… Continue reading MediaGuardian TV Festival Could Have Future Focus On All Media

Orange may win the auction to buy AOL UK, the internet business owned by Time Warner, the US Media conglomerate, according to reports in the Sunday Telegraph. The paper says that the bid from the France Telecom owned company is motivated by fear of its rival, BSkyB, getting hold of it. Carphone Warehouse’s offer of… Continue reading Orange And BSkyB In Battle Over AOL UK

Fru Hazlitt, chief executive of Virgin Radio, announced today at the Radio Festival that Virgin will be renewing its national analogue licence on “substantially reduced terms”, saying that it was a great day for the digital future.Virgin, talkSPORT and Classic FM have all applied to Ofcom to have their analogue licences renewed in the coming… Continue reading Ofcom To Reduce Radio Analogue Licences

In the US, in-car passenger entertainment is expected to take off in the coming years, with industry analyst Frost & Sullivan projecting that by 2011 more than three million vehicles will be equipped with mobile satellite TV systems. These figures come as passenger entertainment really takes off in the States. According to JD Power and… Continue reading In-Car Media And Satellite Radio To Take Off In US

Coronation Street attracted a peak audience of 7.6 million adult viewers to its 8.30pm edition last night, ahead of its nearest rival Eastenders, which peaked at 7.3 million.The average audience for the 8.30pm Coronation Street was 7.2 million adults (a 40% audience share), while the earlier edition, at 7.30pm, brought in an average of 6.9… Continue reading Coronation Street Edges Out Eastenders

Social networking website MySpace has unveiled plans for global expansion and a new mobile phone service that will allow its 87 million global users to connect to the service wherever they are.MySpace chief executive Chris DeWolfe said the site, which has more than three million registered users in the UK, would expand into ten new… Continue reading MySpace Set For Further Expansion And Mobile Network

England’s bitter defeat to Portugal netted a peak of 16.8 million adult viewers on Saturday afternoon for BBC One, with 75.6% of the adult viewing population tuning in.However, this was less than watched the England v Sweden match earlier in the tournament, which drew 17.9 million adult viewers, probably owing to the game falling on… Continue reading 16.8 Million Adults Share England’s Bitter Exit From World Cup

Classic FM, GCap Media’s classical music radio station, has won ‘National Sales Team of the Year’ for the third year running at the Arqiva Commercial Radio Awards.This is the first time the award has been won by the same team three years in a row. GCap Media also received radio station of the year accolades… Continue reading Classic FM Wins Another Award For GCap Media

Financial freesheet City AM plans to raise its readership further by giving away 100,000 copies each day, a much higher distribution than paid-for sales at the Financial Times, which sold just over 92,500 copies in Britain and Ireland last month.City AM‘s advertising is exceeding expectations and the paper will break even in its second year… Continue reading City AM Set To Distribute 100,000 Copies Per Day