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The Guardian Media Group (GMG) has made a takeover offer for Jazz FM, the radio station confirmed this morning. GMG has tabled a £41 million offer for Jazz, representing 180p per share – a 30% premium on Friday’s closing price of 139½p. The offer has not yet been fully accepted and the Board of Jazz… Continue reading Guardian Media Group Makes £41m Offer For Jazz FM

The Advertising Association (AA) has welcomed the publication of this week’s draft Communications Bill as a “complex and wide-ranging” piece of legislation but has taken issue with the proposals on advertising content regulation.The Government is urging the advertising and broadcasting industry to come up with concrete proposals for a more co-regulatory regime for monitoring advertising… Continue reading AA Takes Issue With Communications Bill Proposals

Guardian Media Group Makes £41m Offer For Jazz FMThe Guardian Media Group (GMG) has made a takeover offer for Jazz FM, the radio station confirmed this morning. GMG has tabled a £41 million offer for Jazz, representing 180p per share – a 30% premium on Friday’s closing price of 139˝p.The offer has not yet been… Continue reading Guardian Media Group Makes £41m Offer For Jazz FM

Magazines in Australia managed to hold a 6.8% share of adspend throughout 2001, despite overall media declining by AUS$566 million – a 6.2% drop from 2001 to AUS$8.4 billion, according to data from the Commercial Economic Advisory Service of Australia (CEASA), as reported by FIPP. Magazines’ 6.8% share of the market represents AUS$566 million, which… Continue reading Australian Mags Hold Market Share, Newspapers And TV Decline

Initial reaction is already emerging in response to the publication today of the draft Communications Bill:Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell’s opposite number on the Conservative benches, Tim Yeo, has said: “I give a cautious welcome to the publication of this Bill. I however, remain disappointed that Tessa Jowell has not followed her own logic and fully… Continue reading Reaction To Draft Bill Begins

The growth of media and entertainment via the internet is set to continue, with films, games and animations all to drive revenues in multi-platform online entertainment, according to a new report from Screen Digest. The total western world revenues for multi-platform web content are forecast to reach E3.2 billion by 2005, with western Europe accounting… Continue reading Internet To Offer More Movies And Entertainment

Granada Enterprises has secured Felix cat food as the sponsor of ITV1’s You’ve been Framed in a deal worth £1m.The deal, which includes broadcast sponsorship of the weekend video clips show alongside an integrated online sponsorship, is intended to drive brand status and reinforce the “mischievous” positioning of Felix.Terry Gorst, who negotiated the deal on… Continue reading ITV Puts Felix In The Frame

Websites for the Radio Advertising Bureau and MediaTel are the most popular and highly regarded of all media websites, according to a poll conducted by media intelligence and technology company Media-i (see Poster Publicity Launches Media Intelligence Outfit).The survey, which asked UK media planners and buyers to list their top media sites, placed the RAB’s… Continue reading RAB And MediaTel Top Industry Web Poll

Health and fitness media operator QJ Media has secured the contract to install poster sites in Fitness Exchange health clubs across the UK.The deal will see QJ Media install three six-sheet poster sites in each of the health chain’s 14 clubs in London, Oxford, Manchester and Norwich.Commenting on the deal, QJ Media’s managing director, Niall… Continue reading QJ Media Shapes Up With Fitness Exchange

JCDecaux Airport has launched incentivised airport poster packages in an effort to capitalise on the increase in the number of holidaymakers passing through airports in July and August.The company predicts that up to 30 million passengers will travel through JCDecaux affiliated airports this summer and the poster packs are aimed at encouraging new advertisers into… Continue reading JCDecaux Airport Unveils Summer Packages