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The second half of ITV’s psychological thriller, Secret Smile, drew an audience of 5.8 million last night, performing well, but failing to replicate the success of the first episode’s 6.9 million.The programme compared favourably with BBC One’s offering of Crimewatch UK and regional news in the same time slot, however, building on ITV’s success earlier… Continue reading Secret Smile Falters As ITV Trades Blows With BBC

Emap Advertising has announced a major re-organisation of its internal Radio Agency Sales Team, focusing on two main areas of radio sales and strategic accounts.The radio firm claims the restructure will deliver a “more efficient and customer-focused” service to its agency clients, as well as increasing the company’s overall radio advertising share.Under the new structure,… Continue reading Emap Restructures Radio Ad Division

Heart 106.2 has moved Sunday evening host Emma B to its drivetime show, pairing her with Greg Burns to co-host the show from 3 January. The move will see Emma B take to the air on the same day as London rival Capital FM relaunches.The new drivetime presenter joined Heart earlier this year, but will… Continue reading Heart Moves Emma B To Drivetime

London’s newest free morning newspaper, City AM, has secured distribution within all of the capital’s airports, significantly increasing its reach and further targeting the business community.The newspaper will now be available at Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted and City Airport, distributed through branded display units in over 50 business lounges serving major airlines including British Airways, Virgin,… Continue reading City AM Signs London Airports For Business Distribution

ITV is to close its 24 hour rolling news channel at the end of January, threatening around 70 jobs, although the broadcaster has pledged to redeploy as many staff as possible, and work with unions on the scale of any required redundancies.The move, announced this morning alongside a £2 million investment in news programming for… Continue reading ITV To Axe News Channel By End Of January

The first half of ITV’s psychological thriller, Secret Smile, drew a healthy audience for the broadcaster last night, scoring 6.9 million and building on the earlier success of a Coronation Street double bill to secure victory over the BBC.BBC One’s competing programming failed to match ITV’s evening schedule, with Eastenders drawing an average audience of… Continue reading Secret Smile Thrills ITV Audiences

Media regulator Ofcom has ditched plans for a wide-ranging review of the TV advertising market, claiming that the consolidation of Carlton and Granada last year has led to sufficient safeguards already being put into place to protect advertisers.Referring to the complex Contract Rights Renewal (CRR) remedy put in place as a condition of the ITV… Continue reading Ofcom Scraps Plans For TV Advertising Review

The BBC has extended its integrated Media Player (iMP) trial by two months, allowing current participants access to the previous seven day’s BBC programmes until 28 February 2006.The iMP service, which lets people legally download BBC TV and radio programmes to their PC once they have aired, is currently in its second phase of testing,… Continue reading BBC Extends On-Demand Access Trial

Free film magazine Take1 has increased its distribution footprint with a deal to see Japanese restaurant YO! Sushi stock the title in locations close to London’s cinemas.The magazine, launched earlier this year, will now be available in YO! Sushi outlets in Haymarket, Trocadero, myhotel Tottenham Court Road, Islington, Whiteleys Bayswater, Fulham Broadway and O2 Finchley… Continue reading Take1 Signs Sushi Distribution Deal

Media regulator Ofcom has awarded the new FM licence covering Ipswich to Tindle Radio following a closely fought battle with seven other applicants.The new licence, which will be issued for a 12-year period, covers the town of Ipswich and the surrounding area with an adult population of between 200,000 and 250,000. Exact coverage is, as… Continue reading Tindle Radio Scoops Latest FM Licence