The first in a series of digital community web sites was launched today by Northcliffe Newspapers.This is Staffordshire, the new interactive online guide to Staffordshire and south Cheshire, is hosted by Northcliffe’s Stoke-on-Trent Sentinel title. The site, to be found at http://www.thisisstaffordshire.co.uk/, provides “high-value” content and interactive entertainment to local people and visitors to the… Continue reading Northcliffe Launches Community Websites
The latest ABC //electronic audit figures for January 1998 places IPC Magazine’s Uploaded as the UK’s most-used men’s lifestyle website.The site received over 2.2 million page impressions across 141,661 individual users. Publisher Luci Rathan says: “Uploaded totally guarantees 100 per cent new content material exclusive to the site and therefore offers a unique blend of… Continue reading Uploaded Receives Latest ABC //electronic Audit
The top-selling regional and local newspapers were applauded by the industry at the Newspaper Society’s Newspaper Sales Conference and Exhibition.The Doncaster Star won the Bristol Evening Post & Press Trophy for best overall evening newspaper and the Johnston Press Trophy for evening newspapers under 40,000.The Kent Messenger Trophy for best overall weekly newspaper went to… Continue reading Regional Newspapers Celebrate Best-Sellers
Paul Williams has been appointed advertisement director of the IPC Country & Leisure Group with effect from yesterday. He returns to IPC after a year with Emap Nationals as commercial planning director.IPC Press Office: 0171 261 6575
Overall readership in the national newspaper market fell 3% year on year to 72.657 million during January, an actual fall of 2.317 million readers.It was two tabloid papers, the Daily Star and the People, which showed the largest year on year falls, with respective drops of 12.4% and 9.1%. The Independent meanwhile saw its readership… Continue reading National Newspaper NRS – January
Southern Newspapers has released interim financial results for the second-half of the year which show an increase in pre-tax profits from £8.2 million to £9.9 million. Turnover increased from £47.3m to £59.5m.Recruitment, property and national advertising all experienced growth, with ad revenue increasing by 26%. The rise included sales from its South Wales newspapers, which… Continue reading Profits Rise To £9.9m At Southern
Sarah Keith, currently commercial airtime manager at Channel 4, is to join the GWR Group in the new post of inventory controller. Her priorities will be to build an inventory management system for GWR’s portfolio of radio stations.GWR Group sales and marketing director Simon Ward says: “Just weeks after the launch of GWR’s national sales… Continue reading GWR Group Appoints Sales Inventory Controller
The Financial Times launched its new look today. The subtle changes include dividing the paper into six clearly-marked “blocks”: World News; National News; a new features section called Inside Track; Comment and Analysis; Companies and Finance and Stock Markets. There is an enhanced contents box on the back page and extra space for the Lex… Continue reading FT Launches New Look
A report conducted by National Economic Research Associates (NERA), on behalf of the Commercial Radio Companies Association (CRCA), has recommended that the current regulatory controls on the radio industry should be relaxed if the funding required for a successful launch of digital audio broadcasting (DAB) is to be achieved.The Report On UK Commercial Radio’s Future… Continue reading Radio Industry Regulations Should Be Relaxed Says NERA
United News and Media announced at the weekend that it had sold its remaining regional newspapers to venture capital group Candover for £360 million.The sale of the United Provincial Newspapers northern division includes flagship daily titles such as the Yorkshire Post , Yorkshire Evening Post and Lancashire Evening Post among its 44 titles.The titles were… Continue reading United Sells Northern Newspapers
