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Trinity Mirror has agreed to sell its magazines and exhibitions business Inside Communications Ltd (‘ICL’) for £41.5m. ICL is being acquired by ICL’s existing management team and Ocean Media Ltd, a company set up for the transaction that is backed by private equity firm, Ion Equity. ICL publishes trade and consumer magazines and runs exhibitions… Continue reading Trinity Mirror Agrees To Sell Magazines And Exhibitions Business

Five has signed a deal to show CSI:Crime Scene Investigation, CSI:Miami and CSI:NY, on the channel’s forthcoming video-on-demand (VOD) service being launched later in the year.The deal been has signed with Alliance Atlantis to licence certain second window and exclusive VOD rights for the CSI franchise.Five says that this negotiation, part of a pan-RTL Group… Continue reading Five To Show CSI On-Demand

Trinity Mirror has agreed to sell its magazines and exhibitions business Inside Communications Ltd (‘ICL’) for £41.5m.ICL is being acquired by ICL’s existing management team and Ocean Media Ltd, a company set up for the transaction that is backed by private equity firm, Ion Equity.ICL publishes trade and consumer magazines and runs exhibitions including one… Continue reading Trinity Mirror Agrees To Sell Magazines And Exhibitions Business

Marketing budgets have been revised down for the fifth consecutive quarter as companies seek to reduce costs due to weaker than expected sales, according to the Q2 2006 Bellwether Report, the quarterly survey of marketing spend from the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising (IPA).Of the main marketing categories monitored by the Bellwether survey, main media… Continue reading IPA Bellwether: Marketing Budgets Revised Down For Fifth Consecutive Quarter

The use of low power FM transmitters which are used to wirelessly connect MP3 players and other personal audio devices to radios and in-car entertainment systems could be legalised following proposals from Ofcom.The devices, such as the iTrip, are legal in other countries and allow users to listen to music transmitted from an MP3 player… Continue reading Ofcom Proposes Legalisation Of Wireless MP3 Transmitters

Owners of the Telegraph Group, the Barclay brothers, could re-launch their loss-making Sunday newspaper, the Business, as a magazine.According to reports in the trade press, Sir David and Sir Frederick will in the next few days decide whether to convert the title into a weekly magazine.The paper apparently loses about £3 million a year and… Continue reading Barclay Brothers Could Re-Launch The Business

Marketing budgets have been revised down for the fifth consecutive quarter as companies seek to reduce costs due to weaker than expected sales, according to the Q2 2006 Bellwether Report, the quarterly survey of marketing spend from the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising (IPA). Of the main marketing categories monitored by the Bellwether survey, main… Continue reading Q2 2006 Bellwether: Marketing Budgets Revised Down For Fifth Consecutive Quarter

ITV1 seems to be showing little sign of an upturn in fortunes, with media buyers estimating that advertising bookings for September will be down 12% year-on-year, according to reports in the Financial Times.The paper reports media buyers as saying that the channel could suffer a year-on-year decline of between 10% and 12% in September early… Continue reading Decline For ITV1 Advance Bookings

BARB believes that the forthcoming trial it will conduct with RAJAR is currently the best option for obtaining accurate television audience measurement data, but that the broadcasting body is open to fresh concepts of measurement in Britain’s ever-evolving media landscape.Speaking at last night’s Media Research Group meeting, BARB research director, Tony Wearn, said the organisation… Continue reading BARB ‘Keeping Its Options Open’ For Future Of Audience Measurement

ITV’s interactive advertising revenues have increased by 175% to £3 million in the first six months of 2006 and the broadcaster feels that with 20 interactive campaigns having already run this year, the new revenue stream will grow further.Heineken’s interactive sponsorship of ITV’s UEFA Cup coverage was accessed by over 3.8 million adults every month,… Continue reading ITV’s Interactive Advertising Revenues Increase 175%