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It has just been announced that Capital Radio has entered into an agreement to acquire 90.1% of Xfm , the London-based alternative music radio station.More details will be available shortly.Capital Radio: 0171 766 6000

Andrew Marr is rumoured to be about to resign from his post as editor-in-chief of the Independent titles. The latest rumpus at the troubled newspaper is thought to stem from reports that the replacement for Rosie Boycott, who left the title last week (see Boycott Joins Express), is Simon Kelner, editor of the Mail on… Continue reading Marr Rumoured To Be Quitting Independent

ITV has announced the appointment of Andrew Chowns as project director for ITV2, the Network’s digital terrestrial TV channel.In this newly-created post, Chowns will be responsible for bringing ITV2 to the air in late 1998 and will be working in tandem with Brian Barwick, ITV2’s director of programmes.Chowns is currently controller of legal and business… Continue reading ITV Appoints Digital Chief

Mark Dickinson, managing director of web design company Index Finger, has told Newsline that the company has closed. While rumours regarding the company’s demise began circulating earlier this week, Index Finger was denying this as recently as yesterday.The two-year old business, which Dickinson ran along with IT director Robert Hamilton, is the latest new media… Continue reading Index Finger Closes

The ITC’s new website has been launched at http://www.itc.org.uk/. It is aimed at providing easy access to ITC material for licensees, the TV industry and the viewing public. It includes latest news from the Commission, a licensees database and on-line versions of the ITC’s codes.Watch out for a review of the site in a forthcoming… Continue reading ITC Launches New Website

Commercial radio continued to pull away from the BBC in terms of share of listening for RAJAR Q1 1998: all commercial achieved a share of 50.1% (up from 49.4% last year) while the BBC’s share stood at 47.7% (down from 48.4% last year). Overall, all national commercial stations had a listening share of 10.2% (up… Continue reading Commercial Radio Grows At BBC’s Expense

Associated New Media’s Soccernet website achieved over 12 million page impressions in March according to the latest audit by ABC //electronic. The site, at http://www.soccernet.com/, recorded 12,617,704 page impressions for the audit period 1 March – 31 March 1998.Soccernet editor, Greg Hadfield, claims that this audit demonstrates that the site is one of the busiest… Continue reading Soccernet Audience Grows By 60% In 3 Months

Joanna Baldwin has joined London-based Bates Europe as new business director. She will join Bates on 1 July from Publicis, where she was a managing partner and head of international business.Baldwin will have overall responsibility for driving new business growth in Europe and will report to Jean de Yturbe, chairman of Bates. The new business… Continue reading New Director At Bates Worldwide

Virgin Cinemas is launching a television service which will appear in the foyers of its cinemas. The VCTV service will show an hour-long programme of film trailers, music and ads.Advertising for the first programme has been taken by Snickers and The Gap, which will each receive six 70-second ad breaks during the programme’s broadcast from… Continue reading Virgin Launches Cinema TV

The Newspaper Publishers Association has said that the results of a research report into the National Readership Survey are due in tomorrow. The NPA stressed that the analysis, conducted by consultants, is private and its results may not be published publicly.It is understood that the analysis is concerned with the new test questionnaire for newspaper… Continue reading NPA NRS Analysis Due Tomorrow