Yesterday - RTL has been forced to write down the value of Channel Five by more than half following losses of €41 million (£37 million) in 2009.
10 March 2010 - Microsoft is set to launch its UK video on demand service tomorrow with content including Skins, Faking it and Waterloo Road.
10 March 2010 - Dean Baker, head of JWT Entertainment at JWT London, explains how to achieve the Holy Grail of successful branded content.
9 March 2010 - Google is trialling a new television search service, letting users find TV shows and online videos, and personalise a lineup of their favourites.
9 March 2010 - A new survey reveals that 41% of UK media buyers use online video advertising to deliver incremental reach to TV, indicating that TV budgets are driving market growth.
8 March 2010 - BSkyB is set to show 3D demos in shopping centres across the UK to promote its new Sky 3D channel.
8 March 2010 - The latest television viewing figures, for January 2010, show that BBC One and ITV1 both suffered slight year on year declines in viewing share.
8 March 2010 - Film4 HD and E4 HD will launch on Virgin Media's digital TV platform this summer.
5 March 2010 - According to the latest market data from ABI Research, global pay-TV markets will expand by a quarter from 2009 to 2014.
4 March 2010 - BBC Worldwide has acquired the extra 40% share of its joint DVD operation 2entertain for £17 million.
4 March 2010 - RTL Group's CEO Gerhard Zeiler took to the stage at the FT Digital Media & Broadcasting Conference yesterday to discuss the impact of the recession, consolidation of TV channels, VoD opportunities, Apple's iPad, the BBC's strategic review, and what he thinks of current TV landscape.
3 March 2010 - Ofcom CEO Ed Richards was quick to support the BBC's new strategic review at this morning's FT Digital Media & Broadcasting Conference.
3 March 2010 - Raymond Snoddy on the BBC's "beautifully crafted" Strategic Review, designed "to give critics as few grapple holds as possible".
3 March 2010 - ITV has reported pre-tax profit of £25 million for 2009, a big improvement on the £2.7 billion loss in 2008.


