The 65 job losses, which affect every station, are part of an ongoing plan that will see a reduction of approximately 200 roles – roughly 15% of the division’s headcount – between 2012 and 2017.
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Instagram, the enormously popular photo-sharing app, has announced that ads are to roll-out on the platform in the UK later this year, with Canada and Australia to follow.
Station face-lifts, pop-up malls and grocery delivery lockers across all zones will be commonplace over the next 24 months says TfL’s retail development lead.
‘After Midnight’, which will run until 3am, will seeing hosting duties split over the week between long-standing night owls, Janice Long and Alex Lester.
The editor-in-chief of MOJO and Kerrang! magazines, Phil Alexander, has also assumed responsibility for music monthly Q, extending his remit across Bauer Media’s music brands, it has been announced.
Reported to use a new interface called Pono, Android TV – a platform rather than a device – is expected to offer users tailored recommendations for content including films, games and other third-party apps.
Electronic sell-through, whereby consumers pay a one-time fee to download a media file, is set to become a “legitimate alternative” to buying physical products such as DVDs, a leading NPD researcher has claimed.
Future publishing is to sell its sports and craft portfolio to Immediate Media for a total consideration of up to £24 million. The move will see Future cut around 170 jobs in the UK and a further 40 in the US.
The move will see the Financial Times offer advertisers ad time as opposed to ad space, with the newsbrand’s commercial lead describing the current system of buying a set number of impressions as “fundamentally inequitable.”
Available via the on-demand Freetime service, the new player marks the first time Freesat has offered paid for content and gives users access to films such as Blue is the Warmest Colour and Amour.