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Channel 4’s pithy Saturday morning music show, Popworld, has launched a dedicated online music portal, providing viewers with access to up and coming acts, and boosting the profile of struggling artists.Centred around a chart of unsigned acts, the new Popworld Promotes site enables users to listen and vote on their favourites. The most popular artist… Continue reading Channel 4 Show Launches Community Portal For New Music

Radio giant GCap has backed down from its threat to sue media regulator Ofcom over the creation of a second national DAB multiplex.GCap, which holds the majority share in the UK’s only national digital network, Digital One, had previously threatened legal action against the watchdog, with claims that it had acted unfairly and, according to… Continue reading GCap Abandons Legal Action Over Second Multiplex

Newspaper giant Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN), has appointed David Emin as its new director of advertising, poaching the media heavyweight from an identical post with arch rival News Group Newspapers.Emin currently oversees the ad operations of The Sun and News Of The World, but will now be responsible for heading up advertising sales across the… Continue reading MGN Poaches News Corp Ad Boss For National Position

Emap’s Kerrang! magazine is to create a unique musical proposition next month, with a one off re-recording of Metallica’s iconic rock album, Master Of Puppets, gracing the cover of its magazine.The special re-recording by eight of the hottest new rock bands is intended as a celebration of album’s twentieth anniversary, with magazine editor Paul Brannigan… Continue reading Kerrang! Re-Records Classic Rock Album For Unique Covermount

Total UK online advertising expenditure in the UK rose by 65.6% in 2005, reaching £1.4 billion and enjoying a market share of 7.8%. According to new figures released by the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB), online media is driving the growth of the entire advertising market. Adspend across all other media combined fell by almost £200… Continue reading UK Online Adspend Up By 65.6% In 2005

Emap has announced that it is trading in line with full-expectations, outperforming the market in the group’s consumer magazines and radio division, with its business to business division expected to deliver strong underlying growth. The publishing body expects full-year revenues to rise by 8%, helped by a 5% increase in underlying revenues from UK consumer… Continue reading Emap Outperforms Consumer Magazine and Radio Market

Channel 4 has fixed its focus firmly on emerging media platforms, hiring brand consultancy Branded to shape its long-term strategy ahead of a push into video on-demand and mobile media.Channel 4 director of marketing, Polly Cochrane, has brought Branded in to combat the threat of the broadcaster’s brand being diluted in the move to increasingly… Continue reading Channel 4 Strategy To Push VOD And Mobile

Independent News & Media PLC (INM) has bought the entire issued share capital of PropertyNews.com, along with the PropertyNews monthly newspaper, covering Northern Ireland and neighbouring countries in the Republic of Ireland. The acquisition of PropertyNews.com is part of INM’s strategy of becoming the number one classified website in every market in which it operates,… Continue reading Independent News & Media PLC Extends Reach In Property Field

Independent News & Media PLC (INM) has bought the entire issued share capital of PropertyNews.com, along with the PropertyNews monthly newspaper, covering Northern Ireland and neighbouring countries in the Republic of Ireland.The acquisition of PropertyNews.com is part of INM’s strategy of becoming the number one classified website in every market in which it operates, with… Continue reading Independent News & Media PLC Extends Reach In Property Field

Emap has announced that it is trading in line with full-expectations, outperforming the market in its consumer magazine and radio divisions, with its business to business division expected to deliver strong underlying growth.The publishing body expects full-year revenues to rise by 8%, helped by a 5% increase in underlying revenues from UK consumer magazine advertising.In… Continue reading Emap Outperforms Consumer Magazine and Radio Market