The Royal Television Society’s annual conference begins in Cambridge today, featuring some of the industry’s key figures including ITV’s Stuart Prebble and Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell. Rupert Murdoch and Liberty Media chairman John Malone have pulled out of their planned appearance due to the recent events in the US.Tessa Jowell will open the event with… Continue reading TV Society Conference Begins
The Government has rejected the BBC’s plans to relaunch BBC Choice as BBC3 but has given BBC4, two new television channels for children and five digital radio services the go ahead.Speaking at today’s Royal Television Society conference in Cambridge, Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell, said: “The BBC still has not made the case for BBC3, the… Continue reading Government Says No To BBC3
IPC has signed a deal with Sports.com to redirect users of the recently suspended uploaded.com to the Megastar.co.uk website.Users visiting the uploaded site, which was suspended last month as part of IPC’s review of its online business strategy (see IPC Closes Online Business), will be able to click through to the Sports.com owned Megastar.co.uk, which… Continue reading IPC Unloads Uploaded
Sports website network Rivals.net and ITV Digital have struck a one year, six figure sponsorship deal.The deal will see ITV sponsoring Rivals.net’s English football message boards, site banners, and sms and email marketing. Marcus Leaver, chief executive of Rivals.net described his company’s product as “the perfect medium for ITV, who want to quickly establish themselves… Continue reading Rivals Wins Sponsorship Deal
Having people think you’re German is not necessarily a bad thing, unless perhaps you’re looking for a job in football at the moment, but it seems that pretending to be German can get you in trouble, as a kitchen manufacturer recently discovered.The ASA dealt with a complaint this week about the kitchen company Moben, whose… Continue reading ASA Upholds ‘German’ Complaint
As the horrific events unfolded across the Atlantic yesterday afternoon, billions of pounds were wiped off the UK stock market, traditionally closely allied to Wall Street. The closing value of the market was the lowest for well over a decade, while the longer term economic implications are thought likely to be on a similarly unimaginable… Continue reading Sharewatch
Millions of viewers in the UK were glued to their television sets yesterday as the horrific events in America unfolded. Normal scheduling was suspended as broadcasters offered almost uninterrupted coverage of what was described by Paul Fox, the former managing director of the BBC as “the most momentous event ever seen on live TV.”As the second highjacked… Continue reading US Attack Sparks News Marathon
The internet struggled to cope with demand for access yesterday afternoon as as millions of users logged on to visit news sites following the terrorist attacks on US political, military and economic centres.The BBC, Reuters, Sky, CNN and ITN news sites were all unavailable as of 4pm yesterday and according to press reports 80% of… Continue reading US Attacks Hit Internet
The Radio Authority is investigating the Kent Messenger Group following its acquisition of South East Radio, which broadcasts the local station Neptune Radio to Folkestone and Dover.Under broadcasting law a company which runs a local newspaper cannot also own a local radio station in the same area unless an investigation shows it to be in… Continue reading Radio Authority To “Test” KM Group
The growth of digital TV has been impressive, from a standing start at the end of 1998 to 5.5m Sky Digital subscribers and 1.1m ITV Digital subscribers by June this year. Sky has pulled ahead of its Granada/Carlton owned rival, but progress for both has been steady. Jupiter MMXI recently predicted that over 50% of… Continue reading Feature: Digital Future
