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ITV has taken steps to generate new revenues, creating the role of head of mobile within the broadcaster’s Consumer team.Former vice president of interactive and telephony at Fremantle, Melissa Goodwin, has taken up the position, which will see her being responsible for ITV’s mobile strategy and for growing new revenues from the platform.Reporting to Jane… Continue reading New ITV Appointment Boosts Mobile Strategy

Haymarket Magazines, the consumer publishing and website division of Haymarket Group, is forming a new digital leadership team to speed up its development as a multi-platform media company.The leadership team’s commercial head will be Jim Murray-Jones, who joins Haymarket from Auto Trader as digital publishing director.Murray-Jones will be joined by digital editorial director Mark Payton,… Continue reading Haymarket Magazines Forms Digital Leadership Team

Guardian Media Group (GMG) has renewed its contract for Chrysalis Radio Sales to act as the national radio sales house for its Smooth and Real Radio brands.Under the new three-year agreement, Chrysalis Radio Sales will continue to sell advertising on Real Radio and Smooth FM to advertisers and agencies in London, while GMG will continue… Continue reading Chrysalis Remains GMG’s National Sales House For Radio Brands

As user-generated sites soar in popularity, head of strategy at Unique Digital, Richard Dance, discusses how challenges to ‘net neutrality’ Stateside could have implications on the economy of the entire web…Currently, the internet is seen as neutral, in that your ISP lets you view any website you like. But developments in the US are threatening… Continue reading The Evolving Economy Of The Web

GCap Media will launch the UK’s first national jazz station on DAB digital radio towards the end of the year, providing a sister service to its successful Classic FM station.The new station, which will target the 35+ ABC1 demographic, will play a broad range of styles from across the genre’s spectrum.GCap says that its reasoning… Continue reading GCap Launches UK’s First National Jazz Station On DAB

The Ryder Cup will be shown on Sky Sports HD, skysports.com and Sky Mobile TV, as well as in standard definition on Sky Sports 1 and interactively with Sky Sports Active, making it the first single major event to be shown live across this range of platforms.Sky Sports says it will offer the most comprehensive… Continue reading Ryder Cup To Be Shown Across Multiple Sky Platforms

Ofcom has announced the appointment of Thomas Prag as the new chair for the Ofcom Advisory Committee for Scotland, with immediate effect.Prag has been a member of the Advisory Committee for Scotland since 2004. He was involved in setting up BBC Radio Highland in Inverness and subsequently was founder managing director at Moray Firth Radio… Continue reading New Chair For Ofcom Advisory Committee Scotland

WPP has agreed a deal with US digital video recorder company TiVo which will see it broadcast advertising on its personal video recorder (PVR) service.WPP’s GroupM media agencies (including MindShare, MediaCom and Mediaedge:cia) are involved in the deal, which includes an agreement to buy a minimum amount of advertising.The TiVo PVR includes features, such as… Continue reading WPP Signs Deal With TiVo

BT has signed an exclusive deal with Emap for the publisher and broadcaster to provide branded music video services and programmes for its TV via broadband service, BT Vision.Under the Emap brand ‘The Hits On Demand’, music videos from a variety of genres will be available, with viewers being guided in their choices by Emap’s… Continue reading Emap To Bring Music Brands To BT Vision

IPC Advertising Central Sales group advertisement director Alison Deas has announced three significant developments across the division.Peter Edwards has been appointed head of Corporate Business Development, leading a team charged with developing and delivering cross-brand and cross-platform solutions for some of the biggest advertisers in the UK.Edwards joins IPC from Viacom Outdoor’s client communications team.… Continue reading IPC Central Sales Announces Senior Appointments