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Pray| Showing page 9 of 12 1... 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 | Last update: Wednesday 25th March |
| A Christian radio presenter is taking legal action after being sacked for his support of Christianity while on air. For six years the rev Mahboob Masih, a Church minister from East Kilbride, hosted a regular Saturday morning show on Awaz FM, a community radio station in Gasgow. He was sacked for not being “balanced enough on air” after hosting a live debate about the divinity of Christ. | |
| Media | Church of England Newspaper – 16th January 2009 |
| Britain’s fastest broadband service will be launched today. Virgin Media is to unveil a 50 megabits per second domestic service, more than twice that of the nearest competition. It is said to be nine times the speed of average broadband in the UK. | |
| Media | The Sentinel December 15th, 2008 |
| Britain’s six biggest internet service providers (ISPs) have signed up to a government backed drive to clamp down on music and films. Around 6.5 million Britons have downloaded files illegally over the past year and estimates suggest the practice will cost the music industry up to £1 billion over the next five years. The fightback against online piracy will begin with letters to thousands of the most prolific downloaders to inform them that their activity has been detected and is being monitored. | |
| Media | The Sentinel - July 24th 2008 |
| Terry Wogan's listener numbers have dropped but his breakfast show remains the most popular in the country. Figures released by industry body Rajar, showed Radio 2’s Wake Up With Wogan notched up 7.75 million listeners each week this quarter – down on the previous record 8.1 million. | |
| Media | The Sentinel - July 24th 2008 |
| The Krypton Factor, the quiz show dubbed “television’s toughest”, is being brought back, it emerged today. The show ran for 18 years on Monday nights before it was axed in 1995 by ITV, which still holds the rights. The broadcaster is about to order a new series of the show, which was hosted by Gordon Burns. | |
| Media | The Sentinel - September 26th 2008 |
| A television advert showing a woman performing a raunchy dance routine dressed in a school uniform is “irresponsible”. The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) upheld a series of complaints against the Ministry Of Sound ad for a mobile download. The advert on The Hits channel can no longer be played as it was “inappropriate for younger children”. | |
| Media | The Sentinel - June 18th 2008 |
| 366,000 more people are listening to the radio each week compared with a year ago, total hours for UK listening were down very slightly due to a small slip in the amount of time individuals spent listening. The AM & FM platform saw a share of radio listening rise to nearly 73% while DAB now takes jsut under 11%. With the platform live for much of the last ten years, advocates must feel a little disappointed that despite nearly seven million recievers sold in the UK, not one digital only radio station is even close to reaching one per cent share of listening | |
| Media | The Weekly Radio Magazine 25th May 2008 |
| ITV has signed up the duchess of York as a fat-fighting guru. A two-part TV show this summer will see her move to a council estate in Hull and try to improve the diet of an unhealthy family living on benefits. ITV1’s audience share fell 2.1 per cent in 2007. | |
| Media | The Sentinel – 6th March 2008 |
| Breakfast show rivals Chris Moyles and Terry Wogan have notched up record listening figures. Wogan, 69, has 8.1 million listeners, up 37,000 from the previous quarter, but in danger of losing his crown as the nations favourite breakfast DJ to Moyles, 34, on Radio 1, who has 7.72 millions listeners. | |
| Media | The Sentinel May 1st 2008 |
| UK newspapers are being advised to refuse advertising for sexual services, because of a link between organised prostitution and human trafficking. The Newspaper Society is updating its guidelines on which adverts should be accepted on classified pages. The society has advised its members how to spot adverts that might be promoting sexual services. For example, they warn newspapers to be wary of ads for massage parlours, as these might be a front for brothels. The guidance follows a meeting with Harriet Harman last year in her role as minister for women. | |
| Media | Evangelical Times - April 2008 |
| Fabio Capello, the new England football team manager, had his training tactics scrutinised by the media ahead of the recent friendly against Switzerland. It seems the English press thought it was an odd thing for the manager to insist that mobile phones were not to be brought to training and that the squad should eat together. “Things like eating together, getting up (from the table) together, being punctual – in a nutshell, it’s about respecting each other”, he said before the game. Are we really living in a society where a statement like this is so shocking? Now forgive me, I am no football pundit but surely having qualified for Euro 2008, critics would believe a tight reign on the over-paid footballers may be in order. | |
| Media | The Universe - February 24th 08 |
| News Corporation, Parent company of The Times, bought the leading American religious website Beliefnet… in an effort to tap the faith market in a country where 88 per cent of the population say that they pray regularly. Beliefnet, formed eight years ago, attracts 3.1 million monthly users. It was sold by its founder Steve Waldman, who wanted to find a big media company willing to provide investment that the standalone business could not afford. No transaction price was disclosed. | |
| Media | Salvationist – December 15th 2007. |
| People who download music and films illegally face being cut off from the web under plans being considered by ministers. Internet service providers could be legally obliged to take action. Users would be subject to a “three strikes and your out” policy, receiving an emailed warning first followed by a suspension, and then finally termination of their internet contract. | |
| Media | The Sentinel - 12th February 2008 |
| The total number of DAB sets sold in the UK now stands at 6.45 million – up from 4.4 million in 2006. More than a million digital receivers were sold between October and December with more than 550,000 sets sold in December alone. | |
| Media | The Weekly Radio magazine – 30th January/5th February 2008 |
| One million visitors have made their way to the BBC iPlayer website since the service was officially launched on Christmas Day. The iPlayer offers users the opportunity to either stream or download BBC programming on demand. Streaming allows users to view the programmes from the previous 7 days instantly while those who download can keep the programmes for up to 30 days. According to the BBC, over 3.5 million programmes have been streamed or downloaded since the launch, an average of a quarter of a million per day. | |
| Media | CSI Jan/Feb 2008 |
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