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Almost 70% of women claim that they could not live without the internet, according to new research from IPC Southbank, publisher of women’s monthlies such as Marie Claire and In Style.Southbank’s Web Wise Women research questioned more than 4,000 ABC1 women, finding that they are spending more time on the internet than ever before, with… Continue reading 70% Of Women Couldn’t Live Without The Internet

Now publishing director Andrew Sumner has announced the appointment of Beverley Watts as the new online editor of Now.Watts has been assistant editor of Now since its launch in 1996, and will take overall responsibility for the editorial development of www.nowmagazine.co.uk – which re-launched last summer.In this new role Watts will report directly to new… Continue reading Now Gets New Online Editor

Emap Advertising has appointed Adrian Serle as radio sales director, reporting to Karen Stacey, broadcast sales director at Emap Advertising.Serle joins Emap Advertising from Kerrang! 105.2, Emap’s West Midlands-based rock music station, where he was managing director.In his new role as Emap Advertising’s radio sales director, which he takes up on March 19, Serle will… Continue reading Emap Advertising Appoints New Radio Sales Director

Ofcom chief executive, Ed Richards, has received a letter from consumer campaign group, the Consumer Panel, urging the watchdog to step in to solve the spat between Branson’s Virgin Media and Murdoch’s BSkyB.While in theory the three million Virgin customers who are now without Sky’s flagship channels can switch, the process is too complex and… Continue reading Consumer Pressure Group Wades In To Virgin/Sky War

A high definition access group has started a campaign to make the television technology available to everyone in the UK.The push, which has been labelled HdforAll, has come from a group of broadcasters, retailers and manufacturers, who say that plans to auction off the airspace required for HDTV to work on the Freeview platform means… Continue reading Campaign Group Applies Some Pressure For HDTV Access

More than one million households converted to digital television in the three months to the end of December last year in the UK, according to a new report from Ofcom.According to the communications regulator, growth has been driven by another strong quarter for digital terrestrial television (DTT), with total sales of DTT equipment reaching 2.4… Continue reading More Than A Million UK Homes Switch To Digital TV In Q4 ’06

ITV Play, the quiz channel which has been under the spotlight recently because of concerns about premium rate phone-lines, has been axed and will be replaced by a new channel, ITV2+1.The channel was taken off-air last week as ITV carried out an internal review of its interactive services.Deloitte, the auditors carrying out the review, cleared… Continue reading ITV Axes Quiz Channel

Viacom Media is to sue search engine giant Google and its website YouTube for $1 billion, for illegal use of its shows.Viacom says that around 160,000 unauthorised clips have been uploaded to the video-sharing website YouTube and have been seen more than 1.5 billion times, meaning that the company has been deprived of advertising revenue.In… Continue reading Viacom Sues YouTube For Copyright Infringement

Flagship BBC One children’s programme, Blue Peter, has joined the ever-growing list of shows to be immersed in the premium rate phone-in scandal.It has emerged that the classic TV format faked the winner of a viewer competition to raise money for the Blue Peter Appeal in aid of Unicef, after the phone lines failed.A technical… Continue reading Blue Peter Fakes Winner, Joins Phone-In Blacklist

BBC One’s time travelling cop drama, Life On Mars, was watched by almost 4.9 million adults last night, giving the channel around a 22% audience share between 9pm and 10pm.The conclusion of ITV1’s crime drama Fallen Angel, also set in the 70s, failed to gain as many viewers, with a little over 4.6 million adults… Continue reading ITV1 Crime Drama Falls From Grace