The Evening Standard, which has seen competition from the free afternoon papers in London over the past year, is to cut around 30 vendors from the capital’s streets.The move would see the paper’s street sales workforce shrink by about 8%, whilst parent company Associated Newspapers is said to be calling for voluntary redundancies among drivers… Continue reading Evening Standard Cuts Vendors In London

Sky has teamed up with News Group Newspapers (NGN), publisher of the Sun and News Of The World, to launch 24-7 Football, a new on-demand service that offers video highlights and goal clips from the Barclays Premier League and UEFA Champions League on mobile phones.In addition, each of the 92 Barclays Premier League matches broadcast… Continue reading Sky And News Group Launch Mobile Football Highlights

US online consumer spending was up 23% year on year in the second quarter of 2007, according to new figures from comScore. The biggest gains were enjoyed by sales of consoles and video games, up by 159% year on year, with sports and fitness (58%), consumer electronics (51%) and event tickets (44%) also experiencing year… Continue reading US Online Consumer Spending Increases

Trinity Mirror has announced that its operating profit for the 26 weeks ending July 1 increased by 5.9%, reflecting the benefit of a more stable advertising environment and tight cost management. Revenue was broadly flat for the period, reflecting improving market conditions, with underlying digital revenues growing by 23.7%. However, the group said that expectations… Continue reading Trinity Mirror Operating Profit Up

Dow Jones has agreed to a takeover by News Corporation in a deal worth approximately $5.6 billion (£2.8 billion). About 37% of the Bancroft family, who control 64% of Dow Jones voting stock, agreed to the News Corp offer of $60 per share. Murdoch, chairman and CEO of News Corp, said: “I am deeply gratified… Continue reading Dow Jones Agrees Sale

Guardian Media Group (GMG) has published its annual report, showing that its turnover from continuing operations increased to £716.1 million for the financial year ending April 1 2007, up from £700.3 million the previous year. GMG, which owns the Guardian, Observer and Manchester Evening News and the Smooth Radio network, added that Profit before taxation… Continue reading GMG Reports Profits Increase

Trinity Mirror is to sell 27 regional newspapers and nine niche titles in London and the south-east for £18.75 million. The titles, including the South London Press, North London and Herts Newspapers and the Yellow Advertiser, will be sold to Tindle Newspapers. Last month, Trinity Mirror sold 25 weekly regional newspapers to Daily Mail and… Continue reading Trinity Mirror Sells 27 South-East Titles

Reports are breaking that Channel 4 is to cut all profit-making phone-in competitions with the exception of Deal or No Deal, where its share of future profits will go to charity from August 13.The move is the latest in the ever-unfolding phone-in competition scandal, which has now claimed two top execs from GMTV.The controller of… Continue reading Channel 4 To Axe All Profit-Making Phone-In Comps

The repeat showing of forensic crime series, Waking The Dead, once again proved to be the Tuesday night ratings winner for BBC One in the 9pm to 10pm slot, gaining an adult audience of more than 3.4 million on average.The channel had a 17.3% viewing share in the timeslot for the thrilling drama programme, with… Continue reading BBC One Repeat Proves More Popular Than Big Brother

Google remained the most visited property in the UK with 27.7 million unique visitors in June, reaching 88% of the total UK online population, according to new research from comScore.Microsoft and eBay remained the second and third most visited properties in the UK, with 26.8 million and 22.1 million unique visitors respectively.comScore also found the… Continue reading Google Remains Most Visited Site In June