LONDON - The International Herald Tribune is launching a subscription-based electronic news service in partnership with nine international newspaper partners.
NEW YORK - Three quarters of companies in the US say they will cut spending on television advertising because of the rise in use of personal video recorders, which allow viewers to skip ads.
LONDON - Sir Elton John's record company is promoting his new greatest hits album by licensing music at bargain prices to some of the best known television shows in the US, including 'Enterprise' and 'Scrubs'.
LONDON - Richard Desmond is to invest £50m in promoting the titles in his Express Newspapers stable next year, as he looks to take on rivals the Daily Mail and the Daily Mirror.
LONDON – Rupert Murdoch has suggested he might launch a UK version of his US Fox News station to stand alongside Sky News.
LONDON - Channel 4 has launched an interactive television service called Four Active that allows viewers access to extra content behind programmes, as well as interactive shopping.
LONDON - Classic FM is to move ahead with its plans for a television station with the launch next month of the 24-hour free-to-air Classic FM TV, which will broadcast a populist mix including the likes of The Opera Babes, Bond and John William's 'Star Wars'.
LONDON – IPC Media is understood to have paid its senior management team £3m in bonuses to stay on after the UK consumer publishing company was taken over by AOL Time Warner in a £1.15bn deal in July last year.
LONDON – Trinity Mirror investors are trying to build support for a bid to sell off the flagship Daily Mirror, but are being blocked by the newspaper group's chairman Sir Victor Blank.
LONDON - A television ad for Yahoo! showing a naked bridegroom-to-be tied to a tree and being eyed up by a camp-looking man is to be pulled from the air today after complaints from the gay community.
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