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BBC1’s Judge John Deed proved as popular as ever on Friday night, with the ratings winner attracting an average adult audience of 5.5 million, compared to A Touch of Frost on ITV, drawing in an audience of 4.4 million.The Winter Olympics continued to pull in viewers, with a healthy average adult audience of just over… Continue reading John Deed Sees BBC Friday Night Success

The BBC is to extend its downloading and podcasting trial to include hourly news bulletins, Woman’s Hour podcasts and audio highlights from BBC Two’s Newsnight.The latest extension will see almost thirty more radio programmes join the Corporation’s current podcast activity. Expected to see particular interest from the public are hourly news summaries from the BBC… Continue reading BBC Extends Podcast Trial To Include Hourly News

Regionally based marketing business, The Mission Marketing Group, has announced plans to seek an AIM listing, creating the third largest regional agency in the UK.An AIM listing will provide themission@ with access to new capital, allowing it to extend its existing businesses and develop through the acquisition of regional based marketing agencies.Chaired by Francis Maude,… Continue reading the mission@ To Float On AIM

The Commercial Radio industry has announced plans to create a single industry body, aimed at supporting advertisers and working towards a common vision for the Commercial Radio sector.The new body will be based at the Radio Centre on Shaftsbury Avenue. Funded by the Commercial Radio industry the organisation will represent the interests of the radio… Continue reading Commercial Radio Creates Single Body To Strengthen Industry

ITV is expected to reveal its weakest results for over ten years, with advertising revenue for ITV1 in Q1 2006, forecast to suffer a year on year drop of 13.5%, to £351.8 million.Taking into account the performance of the broadcasters digital channels, including ITV2 and ITV3, ITV’s revenues are projected to dip by 10.3% to… Continue reading ITV To Suffer Worst Q1 Results For Over A Decade

Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT) has announced that it will not be selling its regional newspaper division, Northcliffe Newspapers.After completing a strategic review of the business, DMGT, concluded that further improvements could be made to the newspapers, resulting in improvements in cost and revenue prospects.The Board received three offers for Northcliffe at the beginning… Continue reading DMGT Holds On To Northcliffe

Five is to broaden its schedules with the introduction of new contemporary documentaries, combining human interest stories and factual programming.The first such programme, Crucify Me, is due for broadcast in the autumn, following journalist and presenter Dominik Diamond on his quest to rediscover his faith.The show will follow Diamond as he struggles to find his… Continue reading Five Signs New Documentaries To Bolster 2006 Schedule

The home interest magazine market looked decidedly downbeat in the latest round of ABC results, with the figures for the six months to December 2006 revealing declines in many titles across the sector.Worst hit was Emap’s Period Living & Traditional Homes, with a decline of 23.3% year on year leaving the magazine’s circulation at 48,792.Elsewhere… Continue reading ABC Results Jul-Dec 2005:Home Interest Downbeat As 2005 Draws To A Close

The latest ABC results for the TV Listings magazine sector, reveal a depressed market, with just two publications managing to increase sales.IPC Media’s Whats on TV managed to retain its position as market leader, despite incurring the largest actual loss in circulation, dipping by 84,601, to 1,502,977.TV Choice from H Bauer Publishing, enjoyed the largest… Continue reading ABC Results Jul-Dec 2005:TV Listings Suffer Decline, While Soap Sees Mixed Results

The Daily Mail has entered the world of online video, with a web-based TV news service launched on its website offering celebrity, film and music news.The content, updated every lunchtime during the week, is produced by the Press Association and will carry advertising alongside its entertainment focused stories.Video adverts within the bulletins, as well as… Continue reading Daily Mail Jumps On Web TV Bandwagon