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This year will witness the start of a ‘massive expansion’ in the growth of digital television (DTV) in the Asia Pacific region, with growth forecast to be 57% over 2001, reaching 7.9 million homes. These figures come from a new report from Informa Media Group, produced in association the Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association (CASBAA).… Continue reading Asia-Pacific Digital Television Forecasts From Informa Media

BBC Magazines has promoted Katherine Rose, former marketing director of homes, gardening and food magazines, to the new role of marketing planning director.The move is part of a widespread re-structuring scheme to create a central marketing planning team as part of a review of the entire marketing department. As well as the creation of a… Continue reading BBC Magazines Establishes Centralised Marketing Teams

Television provided via the internet, whilst still largely in the planning stages, could become a significant entertainment platform in the second half of the decade, according to a new report from Strategy Analytics. A global survey of over 30 commercial and planned internet protocol television (IPTV) systems, shows that Asia-Pacific and Europe are likely to… Continue reading Internet-Delivered TV Set To Grow, Says Strategy Analytics

The ITC has dismissed complaints that performances given by Christina Aguilera and Holly Vallance on ITV1’s Saturday morning show, CD:UK, were “inappropriate”.The ITC received 13 separate complaints from viewers who were concerned that the performances were “too suggestive” for children.The regulator acknowledged that the show is one of the most-watched music programmes on TV and… Continue reading ITC Dismisses Complaints Against Raunchy CD:UK

Analysis of the latest TV revenue figures for October reveals a positive period for total UK terrestrial TV. Gains were experienced across the board, but Channel Five saw the most significant improvement, with revenue rising by 31.8% year on year despite the recent departure of chief executive, Dawn Airey (see Airey’s Departure Represents Coup For… Continue reading TV Market Round-Up October 2002

The Government’s plan to switch off the analogue signal by the 2010 deadline has received a boost with news that over one million people have requested information on the new digital terrestrial platform, Freeview.According to the Freeview consortium, which comprises BBC, BSkyB and Crown Castle, around 400,000 calls have been made to the Freeview information… Continue reading Freeview Boosts Prospect Of Analogue Switch Off

Virgin Radio is to run a week long campaign for Microsoft to encourage families to consider buying a PC or upgrading their existing machine in the run up to Christmas.The interactive cross-media campaign, which was secured through Virgin’s Access All Areas initiative, begins next Monday on the Daryl Denham Breakfast Show and continues on the… Continue reading Virgin Radio Secures Festive Microsoft Deal

Shares in AOL Time Warner fell 14% yesterday following a downbeat forecast on the prospects for its America Online division. The world’s largest media company believes that things will get worse before they get better and is predicting that advertising and commerce sales at its internet arm will fall by up to 50% in 2003.… Continue reading Difficult Times Ahead For America Online

The ASA has censured a series of press ads for internet service provider, Easynet, on the grounds that they condone violent and anti-social behaviour.One of the ads, which appeared in the Evening Standard, featured a man being punched in the face by another man and was headlined: “When your MD finds out you’re spending up… Continue reading ASA Gives Anti-Social Easynet Ads The Boot

Strong sales of Sony’s PlayStation 2 console look set to boost revenues for Future Network, publisher of the Official UK PlayStation 2 Magazine, according to analysts at Merrill Lynch. Experience from the original PlayStation console shows that Future sold around one magazine for every ten consoles sold; Sony has just announced that ten million PlayStation… Continue reading Strong PlayStation 2 Sales To Boost Future Network Revenues