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The cost of GPRS data will have to fall if it is to achieve its potential. So says a new report, GPRS Pricing Improves, But Users Still Paying A Packet, from Strategy Analytics. GPRS has been made more accessible through the introduction of a pay-per-use pricing system. However, prices are generally found in the $10… Continue reading GPRS Users Still Overcharged, Says Report

Revenues from online gaming are set to rise from last year’s $875 million to over $5 billion worldwide by 2008, according to a new report from DFC Intelligence. The research group predicts that this growth will be driven by video games consoles users, as well as PC-based subscription services. By 2008, it forecasts that the… Continue reading Online Gaming Revenues To Pass $5bn By 2008, Says Report

The Government has agreed to allow ITV licence holders to take full control of ITN following a last minute amendment to the Communications Bill.Ministers have previously been unwilling to lift the current restrictions, which prevent individual shareholders owning more than 40% of the commercial news provider that produces News At Ten and Channel 4 News.However,… Continue reading ITV Partners Cleared To Take Full Control Of ITN

Radio airtime revenues at the Wireless Group (TWG) rose by 1.4% in the six months to June, despite the fact that last year enjoyed a boost to spend during the World Cup competition.Chief executive Kelvin MacKenzie unveiled the stronger figures at the company’s AGM this morning. He also announced that the group’s flagship national commercial… Continue reading Wireless Group Sees H1 Revenues Rise 1.4%

RAJAR has decided not to introduce an electronic radio audience measurement system in the immediate future, despite claims from some in the industry that its current diary system is flawed (see TWG Research Claims Radio Listening Is Under-Represented).The decision follows fifteen months of extensive testing of two audio meters, the Arbitron Portable People Meter and… Continue reading RAJAR Says ‘No For Now’ To Electronic Measurement

The European internet population continues to grow at a healthy rate and new research suggests that it is on target to top 200 million by the end of 2003. The IDC study One Europe? Internet Usage and eCommerce in Western, Central and Eastern Europe 2002-2006 highlights the fact that increased connectivity is moving the European… Continue reading European Internet Usage Continues To Climb

Emap has expanded its radio portfolio on the Freeview platform with the launch of three new national digital stations.The Hits, Q and Magic will sit alongside Kiss, Kerrang! and Smash Hits, which launched on Freeview earlier this year (see Emap Rolls Out New Digital Radio Stations On Freeview). The new stations are a further example… Continue reading Emap Launches More New Digital Stations On Freeview

Advertising conditions for the US newspaper sector are improving in June, following a disappointing May, where revenues rose by just 1%, according to analysts at Merrill Lynch. The broker says that it now expects the second quarter to return growth of around 2%. For the whole of 2003, growth is predicted to be 2.9%, with… Continue reading US Newspaper Spend To Grow 3% In 2003, Says Merrill Lynch

RAJAR’s decision not to introduce the electronic measurement of radio audiences after more than a year of extensive testing (see RAJAR Says ‘No For Now’ To Electronic Measurement) has received a mixed reaction from the industry.Wireless Group chairman and outspoken RAJAR critic, Kelvin MacKenzie, responded in his usual flamboyant manner, branding the decision a “disgrace… Continue reading Industry Responds To Rejection Of Electronic Measurement

Independent News & Media has issued an upbeat trading statement in which it claims to be generating revenues in excess of 2002 levels and is on target to deliver encouraging interim results.The group, which owns The Independent, The Independent on Sunday and the Belfast Telegraph, said that circulation revenues continued to grow in all markets… Continue reading INM Reports Strong Start To Year