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Ofcom has appointed Ed Richards, its chief operating officer, as its new chief executive, taking over from Stephen Carter.Six candidates were shortlisted for the post, with two other Ofcom employees, executives Kip Meek and Sean Williams, vying with Richards for the £400,000 a year role (see Frontrunner For Ofcom Top Job Is Named).Richards joined the… Continue reading Ofcom Appoints New CEO

News International has bought internet domain names for a variety of regional newspapers, giving rise to speculation that it could expand free newspaper thelondonpaper to other UK cities.“We registered several names when we launched thelondonpaper as a matter of course but we are 100% focused on London for the foreseeable future,” a News International spokeswoman… Continue reading Thelondonpaper Owners Could Expand Free Title

GCap Media’s Capital Radio will next week launch its first advertising campaign in 18 months, sending out a team armed with innuendo strewn notes.The campaign launches on Monday and is based round the slogan “Who’s doing who?”. It will utilise posters, online ads, faxes to London firms and hand written notes laden with innuendo.The campaign… Continue reading Capital Radio In New Ad Campaign

Emap Radio has created an all speech radio format in its bid to win the new Manchester FM commercial radio licence.Piccadilly Talk will feature Manchester focused conversation, news, sport, current affairs and Manchester specific issues. Emap Radio’s Terry Smith, who is leading the bid, said: “Piccadilly Talk is the all speech station that Manchester has… Continue reading Emap Radio Creates New Format For Manchester Bid

Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp has put a variety of already screened programmes from its Fox network in the US onto his recently acquired social networking website, MySpace.com.With an aim to building web traffic and broadening the audience for its TV shows, the programmes will be available online for free and will run exclusively for three… Continue reading News Corp Puts TV Shows On MySpace For Free

ITV1’s one-off action thriller managed to gain more viewers than the debut of BBC One’s new drama series, starring Jane Horrocks.The Outsiders, featuring former Eastenders actor Nigel Harman, was watched by an average of 4.4 million adult viewers in the 9pm timeslot, taking a 22% audience share.Meanwhile on BBC One, The Amazing Mrs Pritchard, a… Continue reading New Programmes Dominate Tuesday Night Telly

Digital television has reached over 70% of households in the UK, although most sales of Freeview boxes are for homes which have already gone digital, according to a new report from Ofcom.Ofcom says that during the three months to June, the proportion of households in the UK which receive digital television services on their primary… Continue reading Digital TV In 70% Of Homes

City AM, London’s free business newspaper, has launched CITY M, a bite-sized news service that is delivered direct to mobile phones.The move is a first for a daily paper and provides advertisers with a new platform in the shape of banner ads and pop-ups, which could potentially be personalised for the user.At 6pm, users of… Continue reading City AM Launches Direct To Mobile Phone News Service

Social networking site and MySpace rival, Bebo, is on target to overtake eBay as the most searched for UK brand on the internet, according to the latest analysis from Hitwise.Since May, Bebo has been the second most searched for brand in the UK after eBay, measured as a share of UK internet searches by Hitwise,… Continue reading Bebo Set To Overtake eBay As Most Searched For Brand

Just over half (52%) of Britons using the internet believe online and digital technology makes their life easier, although half (50%) say that they cannot keep up with the rapid progress, according to new research from Nielsen/NetRatings.The research shows that although 42% know what podcasting is, a third (35%) have heard of it but doesn’t… Continue reading Digital Consumers Revealed In New Research