Today sees the National Readership Survey (NRS) release new data sets for journalists and media commentators, intended to avoid conclusions being drawn on less statistically significant readership changes.The new data sets, covering the six and twelve month periods ending June 2005, are available to NRS subscribers from today and will be updated every quarter.The figures… Continue reading NRS Hopes For Clearer Analysis On New Data

GCap Media has announced the resignation of chief executive David Mansfield, who will leave the company in January to be succeeded by current executive chairman, Ralph Bernard.Mansfield will remain with GCap in order to oversee the final stages of the company’s post-merger integration, which has been on-going since the consolidation of Capital Radio and GWR… Continue reading Mansfield To Leave GCap Media

Daily Newspaper MarketThe nation’s national daily newspapers saw a slip in readership during June, with the market as a whole shedding 7.6% year on year. The dip, which was the result of heavy declines across the mid market and popular sectors, translates to a departure of more than 2 million readers across the daily market.Quality… Continue reading NRS National Newspaper Round-Up: June 2005

ITV has been eliminated in the race for control of Telewest’s Flextech television business, it was claimed over the weekend, with the Sunday Times stating that the broadcaster has failed to pass the second round of bids.According to the newspaper, Deutsche Bank, the investment bank conducting the sale process, has informed ITV of its failure,… Continue reading Flextech Bidding Narrows As ITV Dropped

Virgin Radio has hailed its latest online offering as a success after just two weeks, with the Tim Lovejoy Show rocketing into the top five podcasts in the iTunes chart.The success of the Sunday afternoon sports show follows Virgin’s decision to offer it as a downloadable podcast last month, building on its first podcast exercise… Continue reading Virgin Sees Podcast Success With Tim Lovejoy

The Newspaper Society (NS) has called for the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) to reconsider its opinion on the current system of magazine distribution claiming that losing sales restrictions would pose a threat to smaller retailers.According to the NS, the loss of passive sales restrictions would result in a dismantling of the system in its… Continue reading Newspaper Society Pushes OFT On Magazine Distribution

The BBC has revealed plans to launch enhanced radio content on its Digital Terrestrial (DTT) service, allowing listeners tuning into its national digital radio service to browse genre and programme-related content.Listeners will be able to view and browse interactive content while they listen to BBC digital radio networks, integrating the news, sport and weather headlines… Continue reading BBC Unveils New Radio Content On DTT

The Daily Telegraph has continued its recruitment drive, hiring one of Britain’s best known and most influential business commentators Jeff Randall as its new editor-at-large, contributing two weekly columns to the paper.Randall will leave the BBC, where he has been business editor for the last four years, to take up his new post, leaving behind… Continue reading Telegraph Poaches BBC’s Randall For Business Role

Freeview penetration is predicted to overtake BSkyB as the UK’s leading digital television platform by 2010, with research from media consultancy Spectrum Strategy forecasting the platform to enjoy a healthy performance over the coming years. The latest figures for digital adoption in the UK, published by Ofcom yesterday, reveal that 63% of UK households have… Continue reading Freeview To Overtake Sky By 2010

Outdoor advertising in the states is outpacing all other media, with new figures from the Outdoor Advertising Association of America (OAAA) for Q2 2005 showing the medium to have reached revenues of $1.8 billion, an increase of 10.2% year on year. According to the figures, industry revenue reached $3.2 billion for the first half of… Continue reading Outdoor Advertising Outpacing Other Media