Category: Media & Entertainment

  • The brains behind QI bring you an Olympic-sized quiz show

    Question-setters Anna Ptaszynski and James Harkin get in the competitive spirit with Quite a Good Sport. Plus: five of the best podcasts about America • Don’t get Hear Here delivered to your inbox? Sign up here Perfect Day With Jessica Knappett Widely available, episodes weekly Comedian Jessica Knappett invites famous friends to talk through their…

  • The brains behind QI bring you an Olympic-sized quiz show

    Question-setters Anna Ptaszynski and James Harkin get in the competitive spirit with Quite a Good Sport. Plus: five of the best podcasts about America • Don’t get Hear Here delivered to your inbox? Sign up here Perfect Day With Jessica Knappett Widely available, episodes weekly Comedian Jessica Knappett invites famous friends to talk through their…

  • The brains behind QI bring you an Olympic-sized quiz show

    Question-setters Anna Ptaszynski and James Harkin get in the competitive spirit with Quite a Good Sport. Plus: five of the best podcasts about America • Don’t get Hear Here delivered to your inbox? Sign up here Perfect Day With Jessica Knappett Widely available, episodes weekly Comedian Jessica Knappett invites famous friends to talk through their…

  • The brains behind QI bring you an Olympic-sized quiz show

    Question-setters Anna Ptaszynski and James Harkin get in the competitive spirit with Quite a Good Sport. Plus: five of the best podcasts about America • Don’t get Hear Here delivered to your inbox? Sign up here Perfect Day With Jessica Knappett Widely available, episodes weekly Comedian Jessica Knappett invites famous friends to talk through their…

  • The brains behind QI bring you an Olympic-sized quiz show

    Question-setters Anna Ptaszynski and James Harkin get in the competitive spirit with Quite a Good Sport. Plus: five of the best podcasts about America • Don’t get Hear Here delivered to your inbox? Sign up here Perfect Day With Jessica Knappett Widely available, episodes weekly Comedian Jessica Knappett invites famous friends to talk through their…

  • ASA bans misleading NOW ad

    NOW, Sky’s streaming service, has seen one of its online ads banned for being ‘misleading’ by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), after a solitary complaint was upheld. The home page of the Now website, seen on March 29th, featured an offer for ‘Entertainment 6 Month Saver for £6.99 a month’ followed by details about the…

  • Taylor Swift tour and job cuts help lift profits of Mirror publisher Reach

    Digital ad revenues return to growth, driven in part by articles about pop superstar, Euro 2024 and general election Taylor Swift’s Eras tour, the Euro 2024 football tournament and the UK general election – as well as a deep round of cost-cutting and job losses – helped the publisher of the Mirror and Express newspapers…

  • Report: Gen Z continues to shun broadcast TV

    For the first time, less than half of 16-24-year-olds (Gen Z) are now watching broadcast TV in an average week, according to Ofcom’s annual study into the nation’s media habits. Just 48 per cent of young audiences tuned in during an average week last year, down from 76 per cent in 2018. Children aged 4-15…

  • Culture Secretary sets out growth vision

    The UK Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy has brought together leaders representing more than 150 strategically important organisations – spanning the creative industries, sport, media, youth services, tourism and the arts – at a summit in Manchester (Wednesday July 31st) to invite them to work with DCMS in delivering the Government’s national mission of economic growth…

  • Forecast: Cheaper Wi-Fi 7 models to drive new tech adoption

    According to a report from Dell’Oro Group, a source for market information about the telecommunications, security, networks, and data centre industries, Wireless LAN (WLAN) revenues are expected to drop 13 per cent in 2024, with lower prices exacerbating depressed demand. Meanwhile, vendors sensitive to eroding prices are cutting back on some functions of their Wi-Fi…