More Industry News articles

GCap’s national sales director, Simon Daglish, is set to leave the company following the planned merger of the Global Radio and GCap Media’s sales teams.Ashley Tabor, founder of Global Radio, announced to his staff that Daglish would be departing and the teams would come together in a central London location by the autumn.He said: “My… Continue reading Daglish Set To Leave As Global And GCap Sales Teams Merge

Bauer Media’s men’s style magazine Arena has appointed Glenn Waldon as style director, with Anthony Noguera, Bauer Media men’s lifestyle editorial director taking a more hands on role at the title.Noguera will be closely managing the editorial development of Arena, in addition to his current responsibilities.Waldon is a former editor of i-D magazine and currently… Continue reading Arena Makes New Appointments

Redwood has announced the launch of a digital format for Electric!, the bi-monthly entertainment magazine for Virgin Media customers.The digital edition of Electric!, Virgin Media’s entertainment magazine for 18 to 55-year-olds, aims to bridge the gap between the print magazine, website and regular Electric! email newsletters sent to customers.The e-zine will be created using the… Continue reading Virgin Media’s Electric! Goes Digital

German market research group GfK has announced that it is no longer pursuing a possible offer for TNS. According to a report in the Financial Times, GfK’s discussions with Apax, the private equity group it hoped would jointly bid for TNS, collapsed over price. The announcement comes after Sir Martin Sorrell’s WPP made a £1.08… Continue reading GfK No Longer Pursuing Offer For TNS

BBC One managed to win the battle of the new programmes with ITV1 last night, topping the ratings with the first in the series of Mutual Friends.The new comedy drama, starring Marc Warren and Alexander Armstrong, pulled in more than 4.5 million average viewers with a 19.6% audience share between 9pm and 10pm.ITV1’s rival show,… Continue reading BBC One And ITV1 Came Head To Head With New Shows Last Night

Johnston Press has reported a year on year fall of 9.5% in advertising revenues for the first half of 2008. The regional newspaper group’s total revenue was down 6.3% to £293.1 million for the six months to the end of June, while operating profit fell 15.6% to £81.6 million. Pre-tax profit was down 18.1% to… Continue reading Johnston Press Reports Fall In Ad Revenues

German market research group GfK has announced that it is no longer pursuing a possible offer for TNS.According to a report in the Financial Times, GfK’s discussions with Apax, the private equity group it hoped would jointly bid for TNS, collapsed over price.The announcement comes after Sir Martin Sorrell’s WPP made a £1.08 billion hostile… Continue reading GfK No Longer Pursuing Offer For TNS

Five could launch a children’s channel based on its Milkshake pre-school programmes, according to its director of programmes, Ben Gale.Speaking at the MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival, Gale said Five had begun a feasibility study into launching a digital channel based on the Milkshake brand, although he added that the service would only launch if… Continue reading Five Could Launch Children’s Channel

Dawn Airey is to take up her role as chief executive of Five in October, six months earlier than previously thought.Airey left her role as managing director of ITV’s global content division in April, having been with the broadcaster for just eight months (see Dawn Airey Leaves ITV For RTL).Gerhard Zeiler, chief executive of RTL… Continue reading Dawn Airey To Join Five In October

New figures from the Office of National Statistics show that 16.46 million UK households currently have internet access, representing 65% of households and an increase of 1.23 million households since 2007.Of all UK households, 56% have broadband internet access, an increase from 51% in 2007, while of the UK households with internet access, 86% have… Continue reading 16.5m UK Households Have Internet Access