Outdoor advertising giant, Viacom Outdoor has appointed former Opus sales chief, Peter Charlton as its new sales director replacing Laura Doughty and joining the company’s senior management.Reporting to joint managing director, Tim Bleakley, the move will see Charlton fill Doughty’s shoes following her exit in March to work on Labour’s election campaign.Reports today suggest that… Continue reading Viacom Outdoor Raids GWR For Sales Chief

Ellis Watson, managing director of Trinity Mirror’s nationals division, has announced he is to leave the business to return home to Scotland, after joining the company as general manager in 2003.Ellis was appointed managing director of the publisher’s nationals division in May last year, holding responsibility for both UK and Scottish national titles.The newspaper boss… Continue reading Trinity Loses National Managing Director

Media group Chrysalis has revealed a dramatic drop in its profits for the first half of the financial year, attributing the decline to falling audiences and a difficult period of trading in its books division.The results show group turnover to have dropped to £78.4 million for the six months ended 28 February 2005, compared to… Continue reading Chrysalis Reveals Drop In First Half Profits

Emap has appointed Andrew Jeffries as the new programme director for its Kiss radio stations, a role which will see the new output boss take control of the network’s national and local content, building on his past success with both digital and FM incarnation’s of Emap’s Kerrang!Having launched Kerrang 105.2 in June 2004, Jeffries is… Continue reading Emap Signs New Programme Boss With Kiss

ITV will this year celebrate its 50th birthday, having made its inaugural broadcast on 22 September 1955, championing itself as the largest commercial broadcaster in Europe and “the home of some of television’s best-loved programming”.The broadcaster will mark the occasion with a variety of one-off programmes and live events, designed to entertain and involve viewers… Continue reading ITV To Celebrate 50th Anniversary This Year

ITV has axed its high profile Celebrity Wrestling after just three weeks, citing an ever declining audience share as the reason for its demise.The show, pitted against BBC1’s Dr Who, suffered from the offset, with its debut appearance drawing a peak of 3.8 million although the programme’s audience regularly waned, dipping below the 3 million… Continue reading ITV Drops Wrestling As Ratings Hit The Floor

Media group Chrysalis has revealed a dramatic drop in its profits for the first half of the financial year, attributing the decline to falling audiences and a difficult period of trading in its books division. The group shows turnover to have dropped to £78.4 million for the six months ended 28 February 2005, compared to… Continue reading Chrysalis Reveals Drop In First Half Profits

United Business Media (UBM) will pay outgoing chief executive, Lord Hollick, a £250,000 bonus despite an expected revolt by shareholders at this week’s annual meeting. According to a report in the Financial Times , UBM recently wrote to key shareholders in an attempt to pacify them, arguing that the company is “legally” obliged to make… Continue reading UBM To Pay Hollick £250k Bonus

Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) is poised for significant growth, with a report from analysts eMarketer predicting the next two years to mark the turning point for the technology. The new VoIP: Spending and Trends report focuses on the many factors driving VoIP adoption. Steve Butler, eMarketer senior analyst and author of the report said:… Continue reading VoIP To Increase Penetration In Two Years

Reports this morning suggest an imminent consolidation of the UK’s cable TV industry, with operators Telewest Global and ntl believed to be preparing a £5.5 billion merger.The move would create a more unified rival to BSkyB’s dominant digital satellite service, with ntl employing Goldman Sachs to advise on the planned merger, according to today’s Times… Continue reading Cable Giants Mull Merger To Tackle Sky