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Emap Entertainment is launching an online dieting and healthy eating website from its hugely successful women’s magazine Closer, as part of the company’s strategy to expand key brands across multiple platforms.The site will be promoted heavily via Closer magazine, reaching more than 1.3 million women a week along with support from other on and offline… Continue reading Emap Launches Closer Website

Thanks to a surge in advertising in the last quarter, Avanti Screenmedia has been able to exceed its budget for the period by 10%. David Williams, Avanti chief executive, said of the advertising performance: “We believe that this is partly as a result of increased market acceptance of our medium, following sustained ground work by… Continue reading Avanti Screenmedia Exceeds Budget

ITV Sales has today announced that Clerical Medical, the pensions and investments provider, is to sponsor a package of prime-time dramas on ITV’s family of channels in a deal worth around £2 million.The deal covers the new series of Life Begins this autumn on ITV1, Where The Heart Is, new drama Jane Hall on ITV1… Continue reading Clerical Medical in £2 million ITV Sponsorship Deal

NTL Telewest has completed its £962.4m takeover of Virgin Mobile, and says it will provide consumers with their first opportunity to buy a ‘quadruple-play’ of TV, internet and fixed and mobile telephony services from a single operator. The two companies will continue to operate as separate organisations until early 2007, when they will start marketing… Continue reading NTL Completes Acquisition Of Virgin Mobile

Orange may win the auction to buy AOL UK, the internet business owned by Time Warner, the US Media conglomerate, according to reports in the Sunday Telegraph. The paper says that the bid from the France Telecom owned company is motivated by fear of its rival, BSkyB, getting hold of it. Carphone Warehouse’s offer of… Continue reading Orange And BSkyB In Battle Over AOL UK

Last week’s announcement that UBC Media would invest in digital music technology that allows listeners to buy music from radio stations via a handheld mobile device, received a positive boost today at the annual Radio Festival in Cambridge.In a session discussing radio’s future funding, the ability of radio stations to offer instant opportunity to purchase… Continue reading Mobile Purchasing Is Key To Digital Radio’s Future

Orange may win the auction to buy AOL UK, the internet business owned by Time Warner, the US Media conglomerate, according to reports in the Sunday Telegraph.The paper says that the bid from the France Telecom owned company is motivated by fear of its rival, BSkyB, getting hold of it.Carphone Warehouse’s offer of free broadband… Continue reading Orange And BSkyB In Battle Over AOL UK

This year’s MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival could be the last to focus solely on TV, according to Alison Sharman, 2006 advisory chair and ITV director of factual and daytime, who reflected on the festival’s possible direction for the future at the event’s launch this morning.With the dramatic and rapid evolution of broadcast that is… Continue reading MediaGuardian TV Festival Could Have Future Focus On All Media

Classic FM, GCap Media’s classical music radio station, has won ‘National Sales Team of the Year’ for the third year running at the Arqiva Commercial Radio Awards.This is the first time the award has been won by the same team three years in a row. GCap Media also received radio station of the year accolades… Continue reading Classic FM Wins Another Award For GCap Media

Financial freesheet City AM plans to raise its readership further by giving away 100,000 copies each day, a much higher distribution than paid-for sales at the Financial Times, which sold just over 92,500 copies in Britain and Ireland last month.City AM‘s advertising is exceeding expectations and the paper will break even in its second year… Continue reading City AM Set To Distribute 100,000 Copies Per Day