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Virgin Radio has announced plans to become the first commercial radio station in Britain to offer on-demand news bulletins, giving listeners online access to the station’s latest broadcast updates.The service is being launched in reponse to listener demand for additional news, with the station’s online listening figures rising by 20% after the London bombings in… Continue reading Virgin Launches On-Demand News Service

The Independent on Sunday is to follow its weekday counterpart and publish in tabloid-only format from next week, ending months of speculation over the title’s future in broadsheet format.The shift, which will take place on 16 October, leaves just three Sunday newspapers in broadsheet format, with the Sunday Times, Sunday Telegraph and Observer yet to… Continue reading Independent On Sunday To Make Tabloid Switch

French entrepreneur Vincent Bollore has further increased his stake in Aegis, pushing it up to 13.35% and heightening industry speculation of his intentions surrounding the media communications company. The move follows Bollore slowly raising his profile in the firm, gaining share throughout August from 9% just last week. Earlier this week, global advertising agency, WPP,… Continue reading Bollore Pushes Aegis Stake To 13.35%

Online advertising expenditure has overtaken outdoor adspend for the first time this year, reaching £490.8 million in the first half of 2005, an increase of 62%, according to new figures from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and the World Advertising Research Centre (WARC). Online was shown to achieve a share of 5.8% in the first half of the… Continue reading Online Adspend Over Takes Outdoor

An increasing number of mobile phone users play and download games on their mobile phones, with a new study from NPD Group showing that 27% of users play games on their handsets. Downloading mobile phone games is seen as a potential source of revenue for mobile phone operators, however. According to Telephia 36% of games… Continue reading Mobile Game Downloading On The Rise

Speaking at the MediaTelINSIGHT TV Technology seminar, held in conjunction with the MediaGuardian, Rahul Chakkara, Head of BBCi, outlined some of the Corporation’s new devices leading the way in interactive television.Chakkara started by discussing three main trends identified by the BBC in consumer television viewing in relation to personal video recorder (PVR) usage.The first pattern… Continue reading BBC Leads TV Technology Market

Media regulator Ofcom has today announced eighteen new community radio licences, bringing the total number awarded to forty-eight.The new licences will cover areas of Manchester, Leeds, Newcastle and Birmingham, as well as several smaller towns across the West Midlands and parts of Ireland.The new community licences will cover small areas with low power transmitters, forming… Continue reading Ofcom Awards New Community Radio Licences

Caple operator Telewest is continuing to expand its Teleport on demand services, adding a further 125,000 households to its network which now totals almost of quarter of a million subscribers.The Teleport service, which launched earlier this year (see Telewest Completes First Phase Of On-Demand Roll Out), allows customers access to film and television content at… Continue reading Telewest Extends Teleport To Quarter Million Viewers

Interactive television and the implications for advertisers were discussed yesterday at the MediaTelINSIGHT TV Technology seminar, in conjunction with the MediaGuardian, with the panellists all asserting the importance of the new medium for capturing potential audiences.The panellists agreed that interactive advertising was becoming an increasingly important part of the media mix, with its engaging properties… Continue reading Interactive TV Captures TV Viewers

Britain’s newly consolidated cable firm, formed from ntl and Telewest, is reportedly preparing a bid to unsettle BSkyB’s dominance of Premiership football coverage.The company, which announced its merger earlier this week (see Cable Giants Tie Up To Tackle Sky), will reportedly compete for the post-2007 broadcast rights when they are auctioned next year.The European Commission… Continue reading Cable Giants Set To Make Premiership Bid