25 May 2012
| by John Reynolds
The BBC has retained the rights to broadcast the free-to-air Premier League highlights until..., if any, other broadcasters bid for the highlights package. The BBC flagship 'MOTD' show is presented ...
broadcasting rights have switched between ITV and BBC since 1964, when the first 'Match Of The Day' was broadcast.
Premier League highlights screened on 'Match of the Day' have been broadcast by the BBC since ...
22 May 2012
| by Sarah Shearman
Microsoft is aiming to increase visitor numbers to MSN UK with its first consumer-facing campaign...users current-affairs knowledge.
Pete Clifton, MSN executive producer and a former BBC online editor ...
25 Apr 2012
| by Sarah Shearman
Google has launched a major cloud storage service to rival Dropbox, Microsoft's SkyDrive and Apple...The service, dubbed Google Drive, enables users to store up to 16TB (terabytes) of digital content such as photos, videos and PDFs, in the cloud, with the first five 5GB (gigabytes) of storage for free.
Cloud storage is one of the new online battlegrounds in which Apple, Microsoft and now Google will compete ...
19 Apr 2012
| by Emma Powell
BBC Academy has teamed up with Sound Women to launch a mentoring scheme aimed at helping women....
On Monday the 30 participants selected from the BBC, commercial radio and the wider industry ...
: network manager for BBC Radio 2 and 6 Music Lorna Clarke; Somethin Else head of development Nicky Birch; and BBC Radio 4 presenters Martha Kearney, Fi Glover and Jane Garvey.
The idea for the scheme ...
19 Apr 2012
Free-to-air sport becomes harder to find as the BBC's 'crown jewel' list is eroded....it can outbid rivals for plum events. The BBC still has access to "crown jewel" events ...
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February 2010 ... As a climate of financial austerity begins to bite at the BBC, the BBC Trust announces ...
is proposing to pay a reasonable market rate. BBC managers say that the new rules will make it impossible ...
17 Apr 2012
| by Matthew Chapman
Virgin Media has pulled an ad starring David Tennant and Sir Richard Branson after BBC Worldwide...BBC Worldwide was concerned that the ad, which featured the show's former star David Tennant, a ...
-running BBC sci-fi series was endorsing TiVo.
Virgin Media launched its 'Keep Up' brand campaign, created by Bartle Bogle Hegarty, on the Easter Bank Holiday weekend without seeking BBC approval for the ad ...
10 Apr 2012
| by Daniel Farey-Jones
AOL has agreed to sell more than 800 technology patents to Microsoft as part of a $1.06bn (£670m...-exclusive licence for Microsoft to these retained patents.
AOL intends to return "a significant portion" of the proceeds to its shareholders.
The AOL-Microsoft deal is the latest in a series of patent agreements ...
03 Apr 2012
Karmarama has created a campaign for the Shakespeare season on the BBC.
20 Mar 2012
| by Mark Banham
director of Mi9 a joint venture between Microsoft and Australian broadcaster Nine Entertainment....His remit at the new organisation will be to spearhead the Mi9 Advertising and Microsoft Media Network teams, including "sales, insights and a newly commercially-integrated creative production house Mi ...
details of his role within the Microsoft commercial offering are still being finalised.
James joined ...
01 Mar 2012
| by Maisie McCabe
Volkswagen, the car marque, and Microsoft's cloud-based software Office 365 are the first...The radio operator's targeted advertising launched yesterday (28 February) and allows brands to target their radio advertising to listeners who are tuning into the station online by age, gender and geographical region.
The Microsoft Office 365 ad was made by Weborama, with media planning and buying ...