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The Evening Standard has raised its price to 50p in an attempt to differentiate itself from the new afternoon freesheets hitting the market.Associated Newspapers intends the 10p price hike to make clear the difference between the paper and its new stablemate London Lite, which launches today, and the News International offering thelondonpaper, due to launch… Continue reading Standard Raises Price As London Lite Launches

Five’s new autumn season will feature new and original comedy, entertainment and drama, as well as the launches of the broadcasters two new digital channels, Five US and Five Life.The varied output will include Tripping Over, a new six-part series from the writer of Cold Feet, starring Paul McGann, based around a group of twentysomethings… Continue reading Five Unveils Autumn Lineup

The thorn in ITV1’s side, Love Island, came to its conclusion last night, with almost 3.5 million adult viewers tuning in to see who became the winning couple of the z-list celeb bikini fest.Having recovered some of its audience figures after the end of Big Brother on Channel 4, the programme pulled in its highest… Continue reading Love Island’s Conclusion Pulls Biggest TV Audience Of Series

Google and eBay have signed an advertising and “click-to-call” phone deal to benefit both companies’ collective communities of users.Under the agreement, Google will become the exclusive text-based advertising provider for eBay outside the United States. In addition, eBay and Google plan to integrate and launch “click-to-call” advertising functionality that leverage both Skype and Google Talk… Continue reading Google And eBay Agree Ad And Phone Deal

Bad Girls, which according to press speculation may be axed by ITV, showed that it has some signs of life by comfortably winning its slot.The prison drama show attracted a peak of 4.6 million adult viewers (a 24.8% audience share) yesterday evening, with an average audience of 4.3 million adults (a 22.7% audience share) for… Continue reading Bad Girls Are Good For ITV

Following a week of launch date changes, Associated Newspapers have announced that their freesheet, London Lite will hit the streets at lunchtime today.A few thousand copies will be available today as a trial, ready for the full launch on 30th August, when the title will have a print run of 400,000. Today’s edition is designed… Continue reading Lunchtime News War Starts Today

Marie Claire, IPC SouthBank’s flagship women’s glossy, has announced the appointment of Carla Bevan as editor of its recently launched website marieclaire.co.uk, ahead of the magazine’s October revamp.Currently deputy editor of Glamour‘s website, glamour.com, Carla has also written for Vogue.com and GQ.com. Her experience also includes time as assistant editor of Swarovski Magazine as well… Continue reading New Editor For Marie Claire Website

Eric Fuller has been promoted to managing director of IPC ignite! following Tim Brooks departure earlier this week to the Guardian. He will join the IPC Media board on 18 September and will oversee the IPC ignite! profolio, which includes Nuts, Loaded, NME and Uncut.Eric has been at IPC since 2000 where he is currently… Continue reading Eric Fuller New MD of IPC Ignite!

MediaTel Group is pleased to announce the sixth in its successful series of seminars, featuring several high-profile guests including event chair and BBC media correspondent Torin Douglas, a panel debate and audience Q&A session.Some of the topics up for discussion include; the impact of new TV technologies, including IPTV, VOD and mobile; do PVR fears… Continue reading MediaTel Group Announces Forthcoming Television Seminar

Five has named Nick Thorogood as the Controller of its two forthcoming digital channels, Five US and Five Life.The two channels are being launched in the Autumn and Thorogood will begin his new role in September.Until earlier this year Thorogood was editor of ITV daytime, a position he’d held since 2004. Prior to that he… Continue reading Five Announces Controller For New Digital Channels