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BBC sees off Rupert Murdoch's bid to curb podcast expansion Ofcom finds on-demand app is not significantly harming commercial radio but urges BBC to consider adding output from its for-profit rivals 4 May 2021 • 1:01pm Rupert Murdoch has failed in a bid to curb the BBC’s push into podcasting and online radio after the media watchdog rejected calls to limit the scope of its BBC Sounds smartphone app.   Mr Murdoch’s British radio business, Wireless Group, the broadcaster behind TalkSport and Virgin Radio, had urged Ofcom to cap the number of podcasts the BBC publishes. It claimed that B...

Rupert Murdoch scales back BBC challenge by axing TV news channel  Former Fox News chief David Rhodes is leaving News UK after it abandons plan to launch an opinionated channel ahead of GB News 27 April 2021 • 3:26pm Rupert Murdoch has dialled down his challenge to the BBC's rolling news service by scrapping plans for a TV news channel.  News UK was preparing the ground for a news station on broadcast TV that would target audiences who disliked the publicly funded broadcaster's coverage.  The move was part of a head-to-head battle with GB News to become the first opinionated news channel...

Mavenir And Xilinx Collaborate To Bring To Market Open RAN Massive MIMO Portfolio Mavenir and Xilinx form collaboration to accelerate the Open RAN ecosystem with leading Open RAN massive MIMO portfolio Successfully integrated Massive MIMO end-to-end using Open RAN principles The first Massive MIMO 64TRX product expected in late 2021 Mavenir, the industry’s only end-to-end cloud-native Network Software Provider and a leader in accelerating software network transformation for communications service providers (CSPs), and Xilinx, Inc., the leader in adaptive computing, announced today the compa...

by Stephen Chapman Preston’s MTJ PR has made a number of changes to its senior management team. The FMCG specialist has promoted Claire Murgatroyd to the role of Client Services Director, following 15 years at the firm. Meanwhile Martin Jackson becomes Director of Corporate and Incident, with responsibility for MTJ PR’s corporate portfolio and its incident and crisis communication management. The agency has also promoted Charlotte Alty and recruited Account Director Luke Marsden, from Brazen. Marsden has previously worked at Bauer Media and The Wireless Group and will head up the agency�...

NOW TV to Sponsor Premier League Coverage on Wireless Group’s Radio Stations February 26, 2021 Urbanmedia, part of the radio group Wireless Ireland, has brokered a deal which will see NOW TV sponsor English Premier League coverage across its radio stations including Dublin’s FM104, Q102, Cork’s 96fm, C103, Limerick Live 95, LMFM in Louth/Meath as well as talkSport, the world’s largest sport radio station. The Premier League coverage is hosted by Irish sports broadcaster Trevor Welch who presents Premier League Live from Wireless Group’s Irish studios every Saturday. ...