More Audio Site articles

GCap Media has entered a co-marketing campaign with iTunes including a series of integrated initiatives aiming to simplify the consumer journey between music discovery and purchase.Specific initiatives will see GCap embed contextual links to the iTunes store within their online players, playlists and relevant articles across the portfolio of 53 websites.Radio listeners will also be… Continue reading GCap And iTunes In Co-Marketing Campaign

Fru Hazlitt has been appointed chief executive of GCap Media with immediate effect. Hazlitt currently serves as an executive director of GCap as managing director, GCap London.As announced by GCap on November 23, 2007, current Chief Executive Ralph Bernard signalled his intention to step down on appointment of his replacement (see Ralph Bernard Steps Down… Continue reading Fru Hazlitt Appointed GCap Chief Executive

Guardian Media Group is about to begin the marketing campaign for its new Smooth Radio station in the north east of England next week.The campaign for the new station, which will be aired from new studios in Gateshead on January 8, begins on December 26.It will include TV ads showing music artists such as Rod… Continue reading GMG To Begin Marketing Campaign For New Smooth Station

The broadcast premiere of Lee Hall’s The Pitman Painters and Douglas Coupland’s Girlfriend In A Coma are among the mix of new writing and stage transfers on BBC Radio 3’s winter drama season.The Pitman Painters is an inspirational and potent drama telling the story of a group of Thirties Northumbrian miners who, after starting an… Continue reading BBC Radio 3 Unveils Winter Drama Season

Heart 106.2 is shaking up its schedule in the new year, hiring four new DJs and launching a new show.A new late night show, Heartbrakers, will launch, hosted by Simon Beale, while Matt Wilkinson, formerly of Nottingham’s Trent FM, will front the evening show in the 7pm to 10pm slot.Wilkinson, who joins in February, replaces… Continue reading Four New DJs For Heart 106.2

Capital 95.8 today announced that programme director Scott Muller will be leaving the station at the end of December, although he will remain within GCap in a group programming role.Last week, it was reported that Bam Bam was to leave the station, to be replaced on by current drive and Hit40 presenter Lucio.Margherita Taylor is… Continue reading Muller Leaves Capital 95.8

Advertisers in the UK spend more money per person on internet advertising than any other country, at £33, according to Ofcom’s second annual International Communications Market Report. The regulator said that this is twice as much as France, Germany and Italy combined. At 14% of total revenues, spend in the UK on online advertising overtook… Continue reading UK Advertisers Spend More Per Person Online Than Any Other Country

Sample size and robustness are the key to RAJAR’s future success, rather than a focus on electronic measurement, according to some of the panelists at today’s MediaTel Group seminar on ‘The Future Of Radio’.Ralph Bernard, chief executive of GCap Media, said: “I’d love RAJAR to be more regular, more electronic and I’d love it to… Continue reading Radio Seminar Looks At Future Of RAJAR

One of the big talking points at today’s MediaTel Group seminar on ‘The Future Of Radio’ was whether there will be a continued consolidation of the commercial sector, with one of the panelists saying that it remains to be seen if H Bauer’s recent acquisition of Emap’s radio division could have “put a spoke in… Continue reading Continued Consolidation For Commercial Radio?

Speaking at today’s MediaTel Group seminar on ‘The Future Of Radio’, Ralph Bernard, chief executive of GCap Media, said that digital radio cannot flourish unless Ofcom sets a date for switching off the analogue radio signal.He added that there is a £10 million loss per annum on digital and the industry “won’t sit and accept… Continue reading Bernard Calls For Radio Switchover Date