The Radio Advertising Bureau (RAB) has promoted its two founding members of staff – Douglas McArthur and Justin Sampson – to chief executive and managing director respectively. McArthur has been managing director at the RAB since its launch in 1992 and Sampson is currently operations director for the Bureau.The RAB’s chairman Peter Warren says: “For… Continue reading RAB Appoints Chief Executive And Managing Director
The Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) is to review the stringency of its auditing procedures following the discovery of a six year falsification of the figures for three Birmingham newspapers. The Birmingham Post & Mail (BPM) titles – Birmingham Evening Mail, Birmingham Post and Sunday Mercury – were last month found to have been reporting… Continue reading ABC To Review Audit Process Following False Circulation Figures
London’s alternative radio station, Xfm, and EMAP-owned South Yorkshire pop station Hallam FM have each been fined £50,000 by the Radio Authority for breaches of the Broadcasting Act and Programme Code. The fines are the largest that the Authority has ever levied on a station and represent the maximum single penalty which the RA can… Continue reading Xfm And Hallam FM Receive £50,000 Fines
Steven Cain is to step down from his post as chief executive of Carlton Communications, ahead of the proposed merger of the company with United News & Media (see Media Merger May Hit Regulatory Obstacles). Cain will leave the company at the end of January 2000, Carlton announced last night.Cain’s position in a merged Carlton/UNM… Continue reading Cain To Leave Chief Executive Post At Carlton
IPC Connect has unveiled its largest-ever seasonal promotion with a millennium programme worth £1 million. The women’s weekly division, which includes Women’s Own, Women’s Realm and Chat, has designed souvenir issues for its 1 January editions.Chat, in the biggest promotion in its history, will be wrapped in silver foil and each issue will contain either… Continue reading IPC Women’s Weeklies Get Set For The Millennium
The GWR Group’s Now Digital bid has been awarded the digital radio multiplex licence for the Wolverhampton, Shrewsbury and Telford area, the Radio Authority has announced. The licence covers an area with a population of around 1.1 million adults (15+).Now Digital will broadcast a selection of nine programme services drawn from a number of radio… Continue reading GWR’s Now Digital Takes Wolverhampton Digital Licence
Despite a downgrade by Warburg Dillon Read, information group Reuters rose 12˝p yesterday to close at 820˝p.Shares in Pearson fell yesterday despite the release of a good trading report for the group, which emphasised its continued investment in the internet (see Sharewatch). Prices closed down 14p to £18.34p.Telewest jumped 9˝p as the cable group announced… Continue reading Sharewatch
A Net tariff war commenced yesterday as cable company Telewest announced plans to launch SurfUnlimited, a residential unmetered internet access service, for just £10 a month. When it is introduced on Valentine’s Day 2000 it will be the first unmetered service in the UK.The news comes just one week after BT announced its own unlimited… Continue reading Telewest To Launch Britain’s First Unmetered Internet Service
The Independent Television Commission (ITC) has backed the proposed merger between cable companies NTL and Cable & Wireless Communications (CWC), but has said that there are competition issues raised by Vivendi’s plans to take a 24.4% stake in BSkyB. Both proposed deals were referred by the secretary of state for Trade and Industry to the… Continue reading ITC Backs Cable Merger But Raises Questions Over BSkyB/Vivendi Tie In
Inflation has increased over the past month, putting further pressure on the Bank of England to raise interest rates. The November underlying rate of inflation was unchanged at 2.2%, according to figures released by the Office for National Statistics this morning. However, the headline rate of inflation was 1.4% year-on-year, up from 1.2% in October.… Continue reading Headline Inflation Rises In November
