Music Ally

Part of the recent Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed between the UK government, ISPs and the music industry involved making more legal download services available. 7digital is hoping to capitalise on that, having announced this morning a new range of tailored music services for ISPs to offer for their customers. (more…)

A quiet news day in the UK has propelled news of a Memorandum of Understanding between the six biggest UK ISPs and the BPI and brokered by the UK Government right to the top of the news agenda. (more…)

The UK-based Digital Working Group wants the government to switch off analogue radio by 2020 - and ideally as early as 2012 - in order to get more Brits listening to DAB digital stations. The suggestion was made in an interim report by the group, which includes representatives from the BBC, Ofcom and commercial radio stations. Despite heavy promotion of DAB in the last year or two, only 17.8% of radio listening is digital in the UK at the moment. However, with a corresponding shift from analogue to digital TV, it remains to be seen if the government has the stomach to tell consumers they’ll have to replace all their radios too.