UK Round-up: Tioti; FT; CosmoGIRL; RDF

TV social net to launch: TV aggregation service Tioti – Tape It Off The Internet – will move out of beta in the next few weeks. The site currently indexes 88,000 episodes of 16,000 TV shows by linking to a large number of content sources including P2P services. Nine thousand users have contributed to the beta version of the community site, contributing to wiki-based fan pages and upload videos.

New FT blog is free to read: The FT is launching a live financial markets blog that will be outside the FT’s payment wall. Alphaville will be edited by Paul Murphy and is expected to launch next week. The test version is live now.

CosmoGIRL taps MySpace crowd: Sales of CosmoGIRL have dropped from 173,135 in 2005 to 142,010 this year. Audience migration to the web has been part of that but CosmoGIRL claims it has become the most popular teen magazine on the site and is heavily plugging MySpace in its November music special edition. Editor Celia Duncan said it’s not an either/or situation between MySpace and the official CosmoGIRL site: “Cosmogirl.co.uk serves an entirely different purpose, acting as a far broader platform. Our MySpace is only one page deep, and acts as a community for very loyal readers.”

RDF launches digital division: Launching RDF Digital Media, CEO David Frank said broadband would be an important source of income for the independent production group, hinting at new media acquisitions. RDF announced strong results with gross profits of its core UK production business up 30 percent.

This article originally appeared in MediaGuardian.

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