22 Dec 2004
| by MediaWeek
A host of Grumpy Old Women helped BBC Two clinch the top spot last night, attracting 4.8 million....5% of the viewing audience than ITV1’s Teenagers from Hell and BBC One’s Cops, Robbers and Videotape ...
close second with 4.6 million watchers, while BBC One’s footage of a plain-clothes squad catching ...
again, it was BBC One who triumphed as its hospital drama Holby City went head-to-head with ITV1’s ...
22 Dec 2004
| by Gordon MacMillan,
LONDON – Microsoft has sold its pioneering eight-year-old online magazine Slate to The Washington...Republic, Harper's & Queen and Washington Monthly journalist. He joined Microsoft in 1996 to much surprise ...
and Microsoft deserve great credit for creating Slate. We couldn't be more enthusiastic about this acquisition ...
't be more excited about this move. Microsoft has been a wonderful home for us since 1996. It's clear ...
22 Dec 2004
BBC Magazines is investing £500,000 in a multimedia campaign to promote BBC Good Homes as part of a....
BBC Good Homes' last ABC, for January-June 2004, revealed a 13.2% year-on-year rise and a 13% gain ...
22 Dec 2004
BBC Magazines is relaunching Radio Times on 24 December with a redesigned logo and layout
21 Dec 2004
| by Staff,
LONDON - BBC Magazines is investing £500,000 in a multimedia campaign to promote BBC Good Homes....
BBC Good Homes' last ABC, for January-June 2004, revealed a 13.2% year-on-year rise and a 13% gain ...
21 Dec 2004
| by MediaWeek
The BBC’s news website is trusted more than local sources by almost two-thirds of internet users..., communications and audiences for the BBC World Service, said:" We had known that the majority of impressions to BBC sites – 80% - go to news pages, and that half of all traffic to the bbcnews.com site comes from ...
competitive online market. TNS was commissioned by the BBC to run the survey across sites ...
20 Dec 2004
| by MediaWeek
Commercial media groups will be rubbing their hands in glee after the BBC confirmed today...The move follows stinging criticism in a report by Philip Graf on bbc.co.uk earlier this year into the corporation’s impact on commercial operations and is part of a BBC-wide review of operations in which 10 ...
media and technology, Ashley Highfield, will be regional press and local radio media owners. The bbc ...
20 Dec 2004
| by Sam Matthews,
LONDON - 'The Office''s Ricky Gervais is set to star in a new BBC One comedy series called 'Extras
20 Dec 2004
| by Gordon MacMillan,
LONDON – BBC New Media is to close a number of websites and reduce investment in others as part...The BBC will close the US Sports section of bbc.co.uk/sport and the local history site, bbc.co.uk/legacies, because of similarities with the commercial sector.
Funding for the BBC's sci-fi section bbc.co.uk/cult will be cut, with the exception of the Doctor Who section, which will support the forthcoming series on BBC ...
20 Dec 2004
| by Staff,
LONDON – Michael Grade, chairman of the BBC, has launched an attack on British television and..., although aimed at all TV channels in a review of the year, were seen as particularly harmful to the BBC because its work was clearly picked out for criticism in the light of the aforementioned BBC programme makers.
BBC drama head Jane Tranter refused to comment on the attack, but is said to be hurt ...