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Magazine publisher Natmags has purchased the website handbag.com to add to its growing new media portfolio.Earlier this year, the company bought netdoctor.co.uk and launched new websites for titles Good Housekeeping and Cosmopolitan.The Handbag group publishes four female targeted websites and the core website handbag.com, which was launched in 1999 as a joint venture between Boots… Continue reading Natmags Adds To New Media Portfolio

A massive marketing campaign for a range of Freeview compatible PVR products, promoted under the Freeview Playback brand, has been delayed until next year due to a technical hitch.According to reports in the trade press, the campaign was due to launch this month, and was said to be critical in driving awareness of PVRs on… Continue reading Freeview Playback Service Is Delayed

The UK’s top home interest magazine, Ideal Home, launches its redesign with its November edition, which is on sale today.The title remains the best selling home interest magazine, despite declining sales figures, with the last ABC results leaving its total circulation at 237,525 copies (see ABC Results Jan-Jun 2006:Home Interest Magazines Report Mixed Bag Results).IPC… Continue reading Ideal Home Magazine Launches Redesign

ITV has referred the Contract Rights Renewal, the measure put in place to control the broadcaster’s dominance, to the Office of Fair Trading in a bid to get it scrapped.The OFT will have to decide whether or not there is a case for removing the CRR, which has since 2004 caused ITV1’s ad revenues to… Continue reading ITV Refers CRR To OFT

BT has signed a deal with Sony BMG to enable a wide range of music videos to be accessed on-demand from BT’s next-generation TV service, BT Vision.The videos will also be available from November 2006 through BT Vision Download Store, a new service offering film, television and music download-to-PC and Microsoft-compatible portable devices.The deal gives… Continue reading BT And Sony BMG In Music Video Deal

Sharon Osbourne’s talk show once again struggled against Paul O’Grady’s return, with the X Factor judge taking less than half the viewers than Lily Savage’s alter ego on Friday evening.Osbourne’s programme was watched by one million adults in the 5pm – 6pm slot, whilst O’Grady proved popular, taking an almost 20% share of the audience… Continue reading Osbourne Struggles Against O’Grady

A new free magazine, Sport hit London’s streets this morning, hoping to have the same success here as it has had in Paris.The 48-page magazine is based on a format which has already seen success in France, and is quite similar in style to the Observer Sport Monthly. It will be available every Friday from… Continue reading Free Sport Magazine Launches In London

The Financial Times newspaper has appointed Broadsystem to manage all of its UK subscriptions, in a bid to boost the title’s subscriber base.Broadsystem has developed a bespoke subscription process for the FT, enabling the paper to develop its subscription programmes flexibly. Broadsystem are responsible for handling the entire process from customer service, through to data… Continue reading FT Appoints Broadsystem In Bid To Boost UK Subscriptions

Mark Dinning has returned to Emap to edit Empire magazine, after two years with Future Publishing.Dinning has been the editor of Future’s title Total Film for almost a year-and-a-half, and during his reign the magazine enjoyed its most successful period in its nine-year history.He first joined Empire as a staff writer in November 1999, before… Continue reading Dinning Returns To Emap To Edit Empire

Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe was the main attraction on Extras last night, with the comedy drawing in a peak audience of 3.2 million adults (a 16% audience share) in its 9pm timeslot.However, over on ITV1, the hour-long Ladette To Lady pulled in a peak audience of 4.4 million adults (an average audience share of… Continue reading Ladettes More Popular Than Potter