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National advertisers’ radio spend was down 21.2% year on year in the fourth quarter of 2008, with total spend in Q4 down 14.5% to £129 million. According to figures from the Radio Advertising Bureau, total ad spend for the year was £560.2 million. National advertisers’ spend for the year was down 9.6% to £304.8 million.… Continue reading National advertisers’ radio spend down 21.2% in Q4 2008

Digital-only radio station Planet Rock is parting company with First Radio Sales, the company that has represented it for the past six months.FRS said that the decision to end the sales agreement was mutual, adding that it wants to focus on servicing its local radio stations.Planet Rock became the first digital-only station to be sold… Continue reading Planet Rock parts company with First Radio Sales

Ofcom has today published a consultation on a local commercial radio format change request, received from Liverpool’s 24-hour speech radio station City Talk 105.9.Bauer Radio, City Talk’s owner, has proposed all-speech content at peak times, which would include weekend breakfast, weekend late breakfast and drivetime, but wants to add a mix of music and speech… Continue reading Ofcom considers City Talk’s format change

Former BBC broadcaster Henry Bonsu and ex-pirate Gordon (Mac) McNamee have joined forces to launch Colourful Radio on DAB in London on March 2.The new DAB station, which will play a mix of soul, jazz, reggae and r’n’b from the sixties to the current day, is expected to go out to a potential audience of… Continue reading Colourful new DAB station to launch in London

Yahoo! has launched a new mobile service intended to be a highly-personalised mobile starting point to the internet.Yahoo! Mobile will be available on the mobile web, as an app developed for the iPhone, and as an app developed for smartphones from Nokia, RIM, Samsung, Sony Ericsson and Motorola as well as those powered by Windows… Continue reading Yahoo! launches personalised mobile internet service

Two new national commercial digital stations could launch if regulation in the sector is cut, according to a leaked report.The report, by Ingenious Consulting and commissioned by the RadioCentre, suggests that commercial radio could launch a 24-hour national news and speech station and a national music-based entertainment service on the DAB platform, said MediaGuardian.co.uk.However, for… Continue reading Two new commercial DAB stations could launch if regulation is cut

NME is giving out free copies of its weekly magazine in digital format for three months as part of a promotion drive in the lead-up to the festival season.The long-running music magazine has teamed up with John Menzies Digital to deliver free copies of the digital copy to thousands of readers who already interact with… Continue reading NME offers free copies of digital mag

Bauer Radio’s managing director of national brands and managing director of Magic 105.4, Mark Story, is set to leave the company.Story has worked for Bauer (formerly Emap) since 1990 and played a key role in launching Magic 105.4 and revamping Kiss 100, as well as working on a number of digital launches and Kerrang! 105.2.He… Continue reading Magic’s Mark Story steps down

The Radio Advertising Bureau is set to launch a new radio campaign later this week in a bid to promote the use of radio in a downturn.The series of ads are due to run across the Commercial Radio network and will feature Alan Partridge actor and comedian, David Schneider.Three major radio advertisers will also feature… Continue reading RAB launches new radio campaign

Specialist radio group UBC is to sell its traffic and travel news business to US radio company Global Traffic Networks for £9 million in cash.A deal was going to happen last year but was not completed at the time due to what UBC said were unfavourable economic conditions.However, both companies have now entered into a… Continue reading UBC to sell traffic and travel news business