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Phone-in television games should count as gambling and the industry needs stronger guidlines, according to Nick Rust, of Sky Bet.MPs have heard that TV quiz shows can charge viewers as much as 75p for phone calls even if they do not get through and they are a “lottery” not a test of skill.The Commons culture… Continue reading Phone-In TV Games Should Count As Gambling

Following yesterday’s release of GCap Media’s financial results, the company’s chairman, Ralph Bernard, was present at today’s MediaTel Group seminar on the future of radio and gave a robust defence of what some commentators saw as a less than sparkling performance from one of commercial radio’s flagship groups, particularly with regard to Capital Radio.Of course,… Continue reading Bernard Defends GCap Results

IPC Media’s IPC Connect, the company’s women’s weeklies division, and Groupe Marie Claire are to launch a new magazine early in the New Year.Project Honey, aimed at 18 to 30-year-old women, has been developed over the past 18 months and represents an £18 million investment across its first two years, making it IPC Media’s biggest-ever… Continue reading IPC Media Sweetened By Biggest Ever Mag Launch

Magazine publisher Future has delivered “disappointing”financial results, having overspent in new acquisitions, after the group announced its profits were down by a third in its results to 30 September 2006.The publisher’s profits fell by a third to £13.7 million in the year to the end of September. Lower sales and ad revenues from its games… Continue reading Future Looks Ahead After Disappointing Financial Results

Today’s MediaTel Group seminar on the future of radio saw the top players in the commercial sector mount an impassioned defence of the medium, offering their thoughts on a variety of subjects and all unanimous in the belief that radio has a bright future despite some of the naysayers in the press.All of those on… Continue reading Radio Industry Looks Forward To The Future

BT Vision, the communications giant’s long-awaited IPTV service, will launch to a sample of BT Broadband customers on Monday 4 December, with a wider roll-out early next year.Full details of the service, which combines Freeview channels with video-on-demand via broadband, will be revealed at the launch in London.BT has secured a variety of content deals… Continue reading BT Vision Trickles Onto Market Next Month

UBC Media announced its new Digital Music Download commercial service will go live in London Q1 2007, with a full national launch in May 2007.The new technology, which Simon Cole announced last year at MediaTel’s Digital Radio seminar (see New Technology Offers Glimpse Of Radio’s Future), enables digital radio listeners to download tracks from radio… Continue reading UBC Announces Digital Music Downloading Launch

GCap Media has unveiled its new DAB digital radio station, theJazz, which will launch nationally at 9am on Christmas Day.theJazz will operate as a sister service to Classic FM, the UK’s most popular commercial radio station with 6.3 million listeners, and will aim to develop itself as a brand to include live concerts, CDs, books,… Continue reading GCap Jazzed Up With New Digital Radio Station

Pre-tax profits at GCap Media are down 32% year on year, according to the group’s interim results for the six months to 30 September 2006.The company made £8.4 million compared to £12.4 million in the same period last year. Flagship London station, Capital Radio, has seen its revenue down by £6.3 million year on year,… Continue reading Capital Radio Continues To Impede GCap Media’s Growth

The BBC has been shaken up by the shock announcement that the Corporation’s chairman, Michael Grade, has jumped ship to become executive chairman of ITV with immediate effect.The race to find Charles Allen’s replacement is finally over, after the appointment of Grade – a decision that no one in the industry was expecting.Various names have… Continue reading BBC Chairman Jumps Ship To ITV Top Job