Google said net income in the third quarter surged 46 per cent compared with the period a year earlier. Sales rose 57 per cent, topping Wall Street's bullish forecasts. The results show that Google is growing roughly twice as fast as the overall online advertising market, which itself is booming, and that it is expanding […]
Almost 85 per cent of UK homes now have digital television on their main set Ofcom says. Household take up of digital television – via Freeview, digital satellite or cable TV – stood at 84 per cent at the end of June, up from 80.5 per cent three months earlier, according to the media regulator’s […]
From Branislav Pekic Rome With the goal of capturing the 3-4 million Italians that are not satisfied with terrestrial television but do not want to pay for a triple-play package, as of next week, Italian telecom and broadband operator FastWeb will launch a TV-only package for only E20 a month. FastWeb's IPTV offer will include […]
NBC Universal said it would soon permit consumers to download many of NBC's most popular programmes free to personal computers and other devices for one week immediately after their broadcasts. The service, which is set to start in November, comes less than three weeks after NBC Universal said it was pulling its programmes out of […]
UK's Ofcom is to 'grab back' capacity 02 and Vodafone have been licensed for restricted 2G services. The original mobile phone companies Vodafone and O2, formerly Cellnet, were given 2G spectrum when the UK mobile industry was founded in 1985. But Ofcom wants to release part of it to new entrants so they can run […]
Advertisers have had their first look at new TV ratings that track how many people stay tuned to commercials. Commercial ratings – i.e. how many actually watched the commercial rather than the programme it was in – also include viewers with digital video recorders who watch ads up to three days after the initial airing. […]
The BBC announced plans to cut 1,800 jobs and integrate its TV, radio and Internet news operations where there has been much duplication of effort. The corporation said 2,500 posts would go in total but it would also create positions in new media to enable it to offer content when and where the audience wants […]
ITV’s long-awaited Deloitte report into premium rate phone-in scandals has uncovered problems with up to 10 million calls to the broadcaster’s major entertainment shows. These involved viewers still being encouraged to call after a winner had been picked or being told there was a randomly selected winner when in fact there was a pre-selected short […]
From Branislav Pekic in Rome Sky Italia is set to turn a profit for the first time since launch in Italy in 1991 under the brand Tele+. The results of parent News Corp reveal that profits were up from E32 million in H1 2006 to E164 million in the first six months of this year. […]
The head of the Federal Communications Commission has revealed a plan to relax the media ownership rules, including repealing a rule that forbids a company to own both a newspaper and a television or radio station in the same city. Kevin J. Martin, chairman of the commission, wants to repeal the rule in the next […]