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Trinity Mirror is to close the Daily Mirror’s two Saturday magazines M and Look, as part of a wider cost cutting strategy being launched by the publisher. The company told staff yesterday that the flagship weekly magazine, M, and the listings title, Look, are to close with the loss of almost 30 jobs. The move… Continue reading Trinity Mirror Closes Saturday Magazines To Cut Costs

Sunrise Radio’s bid to acquire Mean Country 1035 AM has been given preliminary approval by the Radio Authority, following the passing of the Government’s Communications Act last week (see Parliament Finally Green Lights Communications Act).Sunrise, which operates radio stations for Asian listeners in London and across the UK, is planning to takeover Mean Radio Holdings,… Continue reading Watchdog Shines On Sunrise Radio’s Mean Country Bid

Emap’s Metro Radio has teamed up with wireless marketing company Flytxt to create a new campaign aimed to help build its SMS database and increase its number of listeners.The special promotion, entitled ‘Topless for Summer’, will invite listeners to text their details and listen to Brian Moore’s Breakfast Show to see if they have won… Continue reading Flytxt Teams With Emap For New Radio Promotion

Sales of smart phones the UK have increased by almost 250% since last year, with mobile users attracted by the new generation of handheld devices, including camera phones. The telecoms research firm Canalys reports that shipments of smart phones, including the Nokia 3650 and Sony Ericsson P800, totalled almost 1.7 million in the second quarter… Continue reading UK Consumers Wise Up To Smart Phones

Culture secretary, Tessa Jowell, has admitted that Lord Puttnam’s last minute plurality test amendment to the Communications Bill was an improvement to the recently passed legislation (see Parliament Finally Green Lights Communications Act). The Government was forced to accept the eleventh hour proposal after a group of rebel peers threatened to vote down the Bill… Continue reading Jowell Admits Plurality Test Improved Communications Act

Ambient media group, HubAds, which pioneered advertising on the hubcaps of cars and lorries, is expanding into taxi advertising.The newly created group will focus on developing a specialist cab division to provide ad solutions across the UK. It will offer the complete range of taxi advertising formats, including graphic design and vinyl covers for seat-back… Continue reading HubAds Expands Into Taxi Advertising

The text messaging phenomenon continued to grow in June, with an average of 55 million person to person text messages sent across the four UK GSM networks per day, according to statistics from the Mobile Data Association (MDA). The latest figure represents a solid increase on June 2002, when an average of 45 million text… Continue reading Text Messages Staying Up For The Summer

Global information group, Reuters, has this morning unveiled a first half pre-tax profit of £87 million, following a loss of £10 million for the same period in 2002. This figure is substantially ahead of a £57 million forecast from Merrill Lynch. However, despite the strong pre-tax profit figure, Reuters’ overall revenues were down by 12%… Continue reading Reuters Moves Into Profit As Savings Plan Pays Dividends

The Financial Times has appointed Gill Hart to the position of marketing director for the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region.The role includes responsibility for all marketing strategy and activity in the EMEA region, which covers the FT newspaper and FT.com in the UK.Hart was previously marketing and operations director for the Financial Times… Continue reading FT Appoints Hart As Marketing Director For EMEA Region

The concept of on-demand television has remained tantalisingly out of reach of both consumers and telecoms operators for a good number of years now. Often hailed as a potential revolution in viewing habits and as a key source of new revenue for cable and telco companies, the video on-demand (VOD) sector has nevertheless so far… Continue reading INSIGHTanalysis: Video On-Demand Remains On Hold