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ITV chief executive Charles Allen will present his future strategy for the broadcaster at a crucial board meeting next week as shareholders call for clarification of his plans for competing in the digital age.The board meeting will be chaired by ITV chairman, Sir Peter Birt, who is understood to have been talking to the company’s… Continue reading Allen To Clarify ITV Strategy At Crucial Board Meeting

ITV chief executive Charles Allen will present his future strategy for the broadcaster at a crucial board meeting next week as shareholders call for clarification of his plans for competing in the digital age. The board meeting will be chaired by ITV chairman, Sir Peter Birt, who is understood to have been talking to the… Continue reading Allen To Clarify ITV Strategy At Crucial Board Meeting

Giant poster contractor Megaposter has secured the mobile phone operator O2 as its first customer for a new 224 square-metre site in the heart of Birmingham city centre.The poster site is currently being used to promote O2’s Business Zones service, but has been booked up for the next three months by other advertisers keen to… Continue reading Megaposter Signs O2 For Massive Midlands Site

The epic bidding process for the Telegraph newspaper titles entered its final stage yesterday as the deadline for finalised bids closed, with Axel Springer and media magnates the Barclay brothers emerging as the two front runners.The bidding process for the titles has rumbled on for six months since the departure of Conrad Black as chief… Continue reading Telegraph Bids Go Head To Head In Final Furlong

As Google and Yahoo! enter in to the local search advertising market, a new report from eMarketer warns local newspapers and yellow pages this is very bad news. Last year in the US, $22 billion was spent on local advertising by small and medium businesses, a much bigger prize for Google and Yahoo! when compared… Continue reading Google And Yahoo! Threaten Local Advertisers

Publishing house Highbury Lifestyle has revamped its Pregnancy title to capitalise on the growing market and appeal to a more fashion conscious audience.The new look will debut in the magazine’s July issue and is the result of research conducted by Highbury showing a 4% rise in the number of births during 2003, a statistic which… Continue reading Highbury Expecting Success with New Look Pregnancy Title

Wanadoo, the UK’s largest internet service provider, has secured a high-profile deal to promote its range of internet services in more than 85 Maplin Electronics stores across the country.The new deal, which soft-launched last month, will see Wanadoo become Maplin’s exclusive internet provider, which means that computers bought from the electronic retailer’s stores will come… Continue reading Wanadoo Bolsters High-Street Presence With Maplin Deal

Culture secretary, Tessa Jowell, has reaffirmed calls for a clear strategy for the digital switchover and has asked the country’s terrestrial broadcasters to draw up an appropriate timetable for the move to be made.The call came as Jowell told MPs that ‘switchover between 2006 and 2010 remains attainable’ and explained that round table talks between… Continue reading Jowell Calls For Switchover Date To Be Set

Radio group GWR was seen in focus yesterday, scoring a massive 8.95% rise to 246˝p. The company was bolstered by investors’ growing favour towards a merger with rival group Capital, which itself saw a rise of 1.63% ahead of interim results due to be published today.Earlier this year GWR quashed rumours of such a merger,… Continue reading Sharewatch: GWR Rises Amid Merger Hopes With Capital

News International’s recent decision to increase the cover price of its flagship Sunday tabloid, News of the World, means that readers now pay around 17% more for the title than they did five years ago.Last week the paper announced that it would raise its price by 5p to 75p in a move that brings it… Continue reading Price Rises For Sunday Tabloids As Circulations Dip