Guardian Media Group chairman, Paul Myners has been appointed as the first non-executive director on the BT Wireless board. He has been appointed alongside Andrew Sukawaty, former chief executive of NTL, who becomes deputy chairman.Chairman David Varney whose board preparing for a future demerger, described the pair’s experience as “invaluable”.Subscribers can access ten years of… Continue reading GMG Chair On BT Wireless Board
The Newspaper Association Of America reports that newspaper advertising expenditure for Q1 2001 will come in at around $10.4 billion, a decline of 4.3% over 2000, according to preliminary estimates. “Obviously, it would be hard to match the incredible gains of last year, particularly in national, which registered an 18.7 percent gain in the first… Continue reading US Newspaper Adspend Declines For The First Time Since 1992
UK cable market leaders NTL and Telewest have joined forces in a national marketing campaign designed to boost British broadband uptake. Both companies offer customers broadband cable modem internet services at £24.99 per month which compares favourably with BT’s £39.99 per month ADSL access.Currently broadband cable access is available to around 9 million homes in… Continue reading NTL Teams With Telewest
Digital One has reached 80% transmission coverage of the UK mainland population by switching on four new transmitters. Digital radio is now available to a potential 44.85m people in the UK, although only a fraction of this number have the equipment to listen to digital radio broadcasts. The licence requirement for Digital One is to… Continue reading Digital Radio Reaches 80% Coverage
Capital Interactive (CI), the online music arm of Capital Radio, today announced a deal to become the first web-radio provider for MSN.co.uk, supplying MSN’s 11m monthly users with three narrowcast web-radio stations.ATK13, Chyra and Glisn will be available on the MSN site around the clock from 23 July. ATK13 will be found on the MSN… Continue reading Capital In Web Deal With MSN
Attic Futura has announced that Shine magazine is to close. Publication of the women’s health and beauty glossy, which launched two years ago, will be suspended from August.According to the publisher, sales of the magazine have proved difficult to sustain in recent months and the decision to fold comes after “disappointing sales in a highly… Continue reading Lights Out For Shine Magazine
MondayMediaTel’s weekly media focus and analysis, Media Track, is featured in Media Business.WednesdayTotal Publishing opens its show and conference at Earls Court. Free seminars include an interview with IPC chief executive Sly Bailey.ThursdayTotal Publishing Show continues. Interviewees at free seminars include Sally O’Sullivan, chief executive of Cabal Communications and Mark Frith, editor of last year’s… Continue reading The Week Ahead
A sharp fall in the market value of Future Network has led the company to issue a reassuring statement this morning. Future says that there has been no deterioration in its financial condition, the performance of its businesses or in the company’s expectation of its performance since the previous trading statement was posted on 8… Continue reading Future Reassures Investors
The Radio Authority has awarded the Yorkshire regional radio licence to the Guardian Media Group (GMG) which will begin broadcasting its Real Radio format in the region early next year.The licence will give GMG access to a potential audience of 3m listeners, and is one of the last big regional licences to be awarded before… Continue reading GMG Wins Yorkshire Regional Licence
Emap have used the launch of their latest online offering, kissonline, to create a cross-media package for Ford and its rebranded Ka.The three month cross-platform advertising campaign is the first to make use of the recently launched website and will target Kiss 100 FM listeners. The promotion will be driven by a strong online and… Continue reading Emap To Push Ka With Kissonline
