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The Sunday Times became Britain’s first ever £2 newspaper last weekend, with the Telegraph also raising its cover price.As well as the Sunday Times, the Times has also raised its cover price, in order that News International can make back some of its investment in new title thelondonpaper.Meanwhile, the Telegraph Group has raised its prices… Continue reading Newspapers Raise Prices As Circulations Continue To Fall

NTL:Telewest could be rebranded as Virgin on Valentine’s day next year, according to reports in the trade press.This follows the £962 million merger between NTL:Telewest and Virgin Mobile which saw the company become the nation’s first quadruple play broadcaster to offer TV, broadband, fixed line and mobile telephony (see NTL Confirms £962m Virgin Mobile Takeover).NewsLine… Continue reading Virgin Rebrand For NTL:Telewest Could Occur Valentine’s Day

ScreenFX, the digital advertising and communications specialist, has announced the acquisition of POPtv, which gives the brand a portfolio of over 3,050 screens.POPtv is an independent media sales company representing screen media in shopping malls, health and retail environments. With the acquisition of POPtv, ScreenFX doubles recently published consumer reach to 722 million consumers per… Continue reading ScreenFX Doubles Consumer Reach

BSkyB is to run the first European trial of Qualcomm’s MediaFLO technology, which will see 10 channels, including Sky Sports News and Sky News, delivered to mobile devices.The trial, supported by Arqiva, the broadcast solutions company, will use a vacant UHF TV channel to broadcast the transmission signal to customised mobile devices.The trial is intended… Continue reading BSkyB To Trial Mobile TV Technology

The ABC National Newspaper circulation figures for August are released today, and it remains to be seen whether the decline in sales will continue.The NewsLine team will be providing expert analysis of all the top stories to emerge from the newly released figures, and will be tackling the top talking points of the day.NewsLine will… Continue reading August National Newspaper ABCs Released Today

BBC Worldwide and BBC World are partnering with Amazon.com in the US on a new digital video download service, launched yesterday.The BBC will provide nearly 400 hours of content for Amazon Unbox with multiple genres including Comedy, Drama, Science Fiction, Documentaries and News, available to download to rent.Customers will be directed to BBC content through… Continue reading BBC Partners With Amazon For US Download Service

Virgin Radio has revealed a new website, giving it a stronger focus on music and aiming at both current Virgin Radio listeners as well as those who haven’t yet discovered the station.New revenue streams including page peels, and Virgin Radio says that dedicated microsites and podcasts mean that the new site is also exciting and… Continue reading Virgin Radio Reveals New Website

Mike Clasper, former chief executive of BAA, has apparently been approached by the chairman of ITV about taking over the chief executive role following Charles Allen’s departure.According to a report in today’s Independent, Clasper has held discussions with Sir Peter Burt and is keen on the job, although there are no guarantees he would take… Continue reading Clasper In Discussions For ITV Top Job

Top Up TV has announced details of a new service with a digital video recorder, which allows recording of programmes that are downloaded overnight as well as regular Freeview channels.The service has launched in part because Five are taking two of Top Up TV’s live daytime and evening channel streams to launch Five US and… Continue reading Top Up TV To Begin Anytime Recording Service

BT has named BBC1, ITV1 Channel 4 and E4 as partners for its TV to mobile service BT Movio, which launches next month.The service is broadcast using the digital audio broadcasting (DAB) network and is navigated through the world’s first implementation of a DAB delivered EPG on a mobile TV phone.Virgin Mobile will be the… Continue reading BT Announces Partners For Mobile TV Service