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The Times newspaper will shortly launch a television service, Times TV, said News International chairman Less Hinton at the World Newspaper Congress in Moscow today.The television venture will be sponsored by computer company Cisco Systems and the service will have aggregated content provided by partners. News International also publishes the Sun and News of the… Continue reading Times Newspaper To Launch Times TV

talkSPORT, the UK’s most popular commercial speech radio station, has struck a deal with German regional broadcasting chiefs to broadcast across the nation’s DAB digital radio airwaves during what promises to be a cracking World Cup.This means that soccer-crazy fans will be able to listen to English radio in Germany for up to the minute… Continue reading talkSPORT To Broadcast From Germany

HomeChoice, the broadband, telephone and IPTV provider, looks as if it will have to cut its sale price from a hoped for £200 million after its owners received offers nearer the £50 million mark.Investment bank Credit Suisse First Boston are handling the sale for Video Networks, the company behind HomeChoice, who last year reported a… Continue reading HomeChoice Could Cut Sale Price

Continuous live television broadcast over mobile phones may be available far earlier than predicted. The BBC and ITV, in conjunction with other major broadcasters, have formed an unprecedented alliance to develop a mobile television service.They will conduct a six-month trial, together with Samsung and LG mobile phones, to test the market. Earlier in the year,… Continue reading BBC And ITV Trial Live Mobile TV

Newspaper advertising revenue showed the biggest rise in four years, with last year’s world-wide circulation up slightly, according to the World Association of Newspapers (WAN).WAN said global newspaper sales were up 0.56% over the year, and had increased by 6% over the past five years. Much of the sales growth last year was again in… Continue reading World Newspaper Ad Revenue And Circulation Up

May began with a positive diagnosis for the UK advertising industry, with expenditure forecast to rise this year by 2.6%, ahead of the 2.2% predicted for the US and 1.4% for the Eurozone. The figures from the Advertising Association and World Advertising Research Centre also showed that advertising expenditure in the UK grew by 1.8%… Continue reading INSIGHTanalysis: Media Healthcheck – May 2006

More and more UK companies are moving their advertising budgets online, according to a new survey carried out by the Online Marketing Show (OMS). The survey, in its second year and coming ahead of the show on June 7-8, had 40% of respondents say that they spend 26% or more of their marketing budget online… Continue reading Commitment To Online Marketing Increases

Channel 4 has launched its new radio station, which will take advantage of the absence of regulation and challenge traditional radio operators.Channel4radio.com is an historic move for the broadcaster, which for over two decades has focused primarily on television broadcasting. The channel’s online service will focus on commissioning radio programmes for users to download onto… Continue reading C4 Makes History With Radio Launch

Lisa Opie, managing director of Flextech, has quit after more than a decade at the company, with no new post to move to.Opie, who joined Flextech in 1993 as a promotions producer of TCC, has been MD for the past three years. This morning she told her colleagues that she would be going at the… Continue reading Opie Quits Flextech

Colour advertising could overtake black and white in the national press within two years, according to media buyers’ predictions. The forecast comes as new figures show that the number of full colour ads in the national press has risen 11.6% in the past year.The total number of full colour adverts increased 11.6% to 117,076, according… Continue reading Colour Ads To Overtake Mono In National Press