LONDON - ITV and the advertising body ISBA responded favourably to today's recommendation that the BBC be regulated by new communications super watchdog Ofcom, as part of Lord Puttnam's parliamentary committee report on the new communications bill.
LONDON - Emap is to give its long-running fortnightly teenage girls magazine More! the Heat treatment as part of a multimillion-pound revamp, which will see a big jump in celebrity content.
NEW YORK - Primedia, the US publisher that snapped up Emap USA, has posted narrowed second-quarter losses of $31m (£20m) compared with $153.4m last time.
LONDON - The government should not lift the ban preventing companies such as Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation from owning Channel 5, as proposed in its draft communications bill, the joint media committee chaired by Lord Puttnam has revealed.
LONDON - Channel 5 is challenging the BBC for the rights to televise Scottish Premier League football, with an offer that would see Scottish matches screened in homes across the UK.
LONDON - British Sky Broadcasting has seen revenues generated by its interactive TV services increase by 100% to £186m, boosted by betting and the success of 'Big Brother 3'.
LONDON - British Sky Broadcasting has seen revenue rise by 20% to £2.8bn and has broken the 6m mark for subscribers.
LONDON - A satirical magazine called The Poke is being launched next month at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in an attempt to inject some life back into the UK comedy scene.
LONDON - The Football League is poised to begin legal proceedings against the law firm that represented it when it signed its £315m three-year TV rights deal with ITV Digital, which had £178m still to pay when it collapsed earlier this year.
NEW YORK - US television networks are struggling to sell airtime for programmes planned for the anniversary of September 11 to mark the Islamic fundamentalist terrorist attacks on Washington and New York.
© Haymarket Media Group Ltd. | Terms & Conditions | Contact us
to remove filters