Lord Rothermere’s Daily Mail and General Trust has announced the purchase of classified advertising specialist Bargain Pages Media for a total of £8.5 million.The move will see the Birmingham based operation form part of DMGT’s regional newspaper division, Northcliffe Newspapers Group. The company currently publishes the Bargain Pages newspaper in three editions to most of… Continue reading Daily Mail Snaps Up Midlands Bargain Papers
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Interactive television specialist, Press Red, is attempting to make the switch to interactive advertising easier than ever with the launch of a new version of its BlackBox advert creation tool designed to woo more brands to the fledgling medium.The software has been accredited by Sky Interactive for use by agencies in creating campaigns using the… Continue reading Press Red Launches New Interactive Tool For Agencies
Kelvin MacKenzie’s national speech-based radio station, talkSPORT, is launching a major television campaign worth £500,000 this week as it attempts to drive listening amongst the highly targeted male audiences watching Sky Sports.The campaign, which breaks on 4 September, features three different commercials to be broadcast over two months during Sky’s range of live sports programming.… Continue reading talkSPORT To Boost Listening With Television Push
The UK’s largest commercial broadcaster, ITV, has joined the Board of the UK Association of Online Publishers, the trade body charged with representing the interests of online publishers.The move brings ITV into line with rival online operators such as the BBC, BSkyB, Emap, FT.com, Guardian Unlimited, Haymarket and Times Online. The broadcaster’s head of online… Continue reading ITV Joins Association of Online Publishers
ITV has secured First Choice Holidays the exclusive broadcast sponsor of the fourth series of its highly successful reality-TV format I’m A Celebrity – Get Me Out of Here, which will return to the channel later this year.The last series of the antipodean gameshow proved a solid ratings winner for ITV1 with an average of… Continue reading I’m A Celebrity Is First Choice For Holiday Firm
Lord Rothermere’s Daily Mail and General Trust has announced the purchase of classified advertising specialist Bargain Pages Media for a total of £8.5 million. The move will see the Birmingham based operation form part of DMGT’s regional newspaper division, Northcliffe Newspapers Group. The company currently publishes the Bargain Pages newspaper in three editions to most… Continue reading Daily Mail Snaps Up Midlands Bargain Papers
Hollinger International has announced that an internal investigation has found former executives, including ex-chief executive, Lord Black, guilty of taking $400 million of the group’s money. According to BBC News online, the investigation papers said that the sum, which accounted for 95.2% of its adjusted net income between 1997 to 2003, was used to ‘line… Continue reading Hollinger Investigations Show Executives Took $400 Million
The MRG Cricket XI pulled off a narrow eight run win in the closely contested final game of the annual Tashes series against a joint BMRB/Ipsos team. After a 3-0 series win last time around, this result gave the MRG a 1-1 draw this year (with one game rained off).After last time’s washout, the teams… Continue reading MRG Maintain A Hold On Their Tashes After Nerve-Jangler
Supermarket giant Tesco has fired the latest salvo in the increasingly fierce cut-price broadband war with the launch of a new service costing less than £20 per month to complement its existing dial up, mobile and home telephone products.The high-street stalwart’s 512k service, pitched at entry level broadband users, ranks behind its rivals in terms… Continue reading Tesco Enters Cut-Price Broadband Market
RTL, the owner of television broadcaster Five, yesterday tried to avoid adding further fuel to the rumours surrounding a merger with Channel 4, by saying it had to decide how to develop its multi-channel strategy first before any discussions take place. At a presentation to unveil the group’s interim results, chief executive, Gerhard Zeiler, refused… Continue reading RTL Boss Deflects Talks Of Five/Channel 4 Merger