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News International is to use street vendors to sell copies of the Sun in London, following on from its decision to drop the paper’s cover price to 20p in the capital.The popular red-top will be sold during the morning rush – going up against the freesheet Metro – and again from 11.30am to 2.30pm, stopping… Continue reading Street Vendors To Sell The Sun

Coca-Cola has signed a strategic partnership agreement with JCDecaux, encompassing the design of future sites, deployment of new technology and access to the outdoor giant’s most prestigious advertising locations.The agreement, Coca-Cola’s first UK wide-deal, covers the advertising of its full range of brands including Coca-Cola, Diet Coke, Coca-Cola Zero, Powerade and Schweppes.Coca-Cola will be the… Continue reading JCDecaux Unveils Outdoor Partnership With Coca-Cola

The BBC has confirmed that the Bafta-award winning Doctor Who will return for a fifth series in spring 2010.A special episode of the time-travel sci-fi drama starring David Tennant and Kylie Minogue will be broadcast on BBC One in December 2007.Series four, which went into production in July 2007, will hit UK screens in spring… Continue reading BBC Confirms Fifth Series Of Dr Who

A new planning tool which aims to detail the cross-platform readership of local newspapers has been launched today, giving data on 800 of the UK’s 1,100 local newspaper websites.The Newspaper Society’s (NS) Media Portfolio Database, which is described as a “work in progress”, will initially use traffic data directly from publishers, according to a report… Continue reading Local Newspapers Get New Planning Tool

Total advertising expenditures at US newspaper companies were $11.3 billion for the second quarter of 2007, an 8.6% decrease from the same period a year earlier, according to new figures from the Newspaper Advertising Association (NAA). Spending for print ads in newspapers totaled $10.5 billion, down 10.2% versus the same period a year earlier. Advertising… Continue reading US Newspaper Adspend Declines

Andy Barnes, sales director at Channel 4, has been confirmed as a panelist at the forthcoming MediaTel Group full-day seminar on the Future Of Television.Barnes will be taking part in the morning session alongside industry luminaries Jim Marshall, chairman of Starcom Mediavest Group; Mark Howe, country director, UK sales at Google and media journalist Ray… Continue reading Channel 4’s Barnes Confirmed For Television Seminar

August saw the release of a new forecast from OPera Media which predicted that a continuation of strong increases in online search and classifieds will see UK adspend increase by 3.3% this year. OPera added that it expects television revenues to remain static year on year, whilst newspaper circulations will continue to drop in 2007… Continue reading INSIGHTanalysis: Media Healthcheck – August 2007

Last week, SMG confirmed that it is selling its outdoor advertising division, Primesight, to private equity firm GMT Communications Partners for up to £62 million.SMG added that its television and cinema advertising divisions and Virgin Radio continue to trade in line with the board’s expectations for the current financial year (Full Story).Emap released a statement… Continue reading Media In The City: SMG Confirms Primesight Sale

SMG is believed to be delaying the floatation of Virgin Radio following the departure of chief executive Paul Jackson to GCap Media. Richard Huntingford, Virgin’s new chairman, said that an initial public offer could not go ahead without a chief executive. SMG hopes to raise around £85 million from the initial public offering, to reduce… Continue reading SMG Could Delay Virgin Radio Floatation

BT Retail says that it has became the UK’s first broadband supplier to pass the four million customer mark.The acceleration to four million has taken just over five years meaning a new customer has been added on average every 40 seconds since June 2002.This also equates to more than 2,000 new customers each day during… Continue reading BT Retail Passes Four Million Broadband Customers Mark