Virgin Radio owners Scottish Media Group have confirmed the sale of Virgin Radio to a consortium including The Times of India Group for £53 million by the end of June.The station will be renamed, in order to ensure there are no branding restrictions imposed by Sir Richard Branson which could affect the new owners freedom… Continue reading Virgin Radio Sale Confirmed
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Bauer’s Kiss Radio has announced the signing of its latest ambassador, DJ Paul Oakenfold, to represent its ‘Music is Life’ philosophy.The DJ will present a series of music programmes featuring the history of dance music from the last 20 years, starting with a special Ibiza broadcast later this month.Oakenfold first broadcast on Kiss in 1985… Continue reading Kiss Signs DJ Paul Oakenfold as New Ambassador
GCap Media’s Classic FM announced it will sponsor a series of classical concerts at London’s indigO2 and O2 arena in a new seven figure deal.Classic FM has teamed up with the owners and operators of the O2 – AEG – to be both the sponsor and media partner for the concerts, which are set to… Continue reading Classic FM Signs Major New Concert Deal
Bauer’s Kiss 100 is set to launch its first major marketing campaign for the Rickie and Melvin breakfast show.The campaign comes as part of a £1.5 million investment in to the radio station over the summer and is due to launch across London this month.ODD designed the creative – which features Rickie and Melvin having… Continue reading Kiss 100 Kick Starts A New Breakfast Show Campaign
Jamie Theakston has signed a three-year extension to his current deal presenting the Heart 106.2 breakfast show, which will see him remain in place until the start of 2011.Heart’s owner, Global Radio, has also signed a similar deal with Nick Ferrari, presenter on London speech station LBC 97.3.Theakston and co-host Harriet Scott saw the weekly… Continue reading Theakston Gets Three More Years At Heart 106.2
Britons, on average, are spending just 4% more time online a month than they did a year ago, according to new research from Nielsen Online.The biggest increases in online time were for consumer generated media (47%), search (13%) and entertainment (8%) sites, with the biggest decreases coming for communication (-10%), and content sites (-3%). How… Continue reading Britons Spending 4% More Time Online Per Month
Google has integrated Google Analytics with its Google TV Ads programme to allow marketers to track the impact their TV ads are having on site traffic.Users can upload their TV ad as a video file to their AdWords account and then start a campaign by choosing TV stations to air the ad on. Advertisers can… Continue reading Google Analytics Integrates TV Ads Programme
AOL has announced the expansion of its ad-network Platform-A into Europe, naming Brendan Condon as head of international operations.Randy Falco, AOL chairman and CEO, said: “By bringing Platform-A to Europe, we can offer advertisers the best marketing tools and technologies available to help them effectively and efficiently deliver their messages to online audiences across Europe.“This… Continue reading AOL Expands Platform-A Ad Network Into Europe
Simon Long is to take up the newly created position of daytime editor at Bauer Radio’s dance music station, Kiss 100.Long will be responsible for managing the daytime schedule of the Kiss 100 station, executing programmes, working with presenters and ensuring engaging content is produced to run on Kiss’ on-air and off-air platforms.He will report… Continue reading Kiss Appoints New Daytime Editor
The latest research from Mediacells reveals that mobile sports pages were accessed an average of ten times per unique user, with 58% of visits made via Nokia phones.The data, taken from a survey of 50 million mobile internet pages, also revealed that the peak time for accessing mobile sports pages is 4pm.Sony Ericsson’s are the… Continue reading Sports Pages Popular With Mobile Users
