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Eurosport has announced that Patrick Irwin will become the channel’s new sales manager. Irwin was previously business development manager at sports consultancy SIS.Eurosport: 0171 468 7777

News Corporation today announced full year financial results which showed a disappointing 2.5% increase in pre-abnormal net profits to A$1.295 billion (£602m), which is below the expected A$1.4 billion. A A$1.3 billion buyback of the company’s shares was also announced.The UK however was one of Mr Murdoch’s better performing regions, where operating income from businesses… Continue reading Profits Slow At News Corp

Trinity International has said that it intends to buy Dublin-based Post Publications for £4.9m. Post publishes The Sunday Business Post, which has a circulation of around 42,000. The deal is subject to approval by the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment in Ireland.Trinity appears keen to take a dominant position in the Irish regional newspaper… Continue reading Trinity Buys Dublin Publisher

The Advertising Standards Authority has followed the ITC’s recent lead by criticising car advertisers which sell their products by focusing on speed and acceleration.A number of complaints were received by the ASA regarding press and poster ads for Audi and Volvo cars. Objections, including one from the Department of Transport, to a poster for an… Continue reading ASA Upholds More Car Ad Complaints

Agency estimates put the total terrestrial TV revenue for July at £160.320m. Of this, ITV brought in £116.25m , Channel 4 £36m and C5 £8.07m. All of these figures are down on the previous year. LWT put in the strongest performance among the ITV areas, with a year on year increase of 0.2% points to… Continue reading TV Revenue – July

British American Tobacco is rumoured to be planning to buy a Formula 1 motor racing team in a bid to escape the tobacco advertising ban which will be implemented by the new Labour government.BAT would have to spend around £175m to become involved in this side of the sport and Marketing magazine names racing car… Continue reading BAT Set To Dodge Tobacco Ad Bans

The Radio Advertising Bureau has launched a new guide entitled “How Advertisers Use Radio”, which aims to demonstrate the types of analyses which can now be conducted using the available radio analysis systems. It also highlights the variety of approaches taken by advertisers when using radio.According to the RAB, a large proportion of Commercial Radio’s… Continue reading RAB Launches Radio Ad Guide

The average weekly Cinema admission figure for July was 2.57 million, which is a 12.3% increase on the same month last year. Total admissions for the month amounted to 11.391 million compared to 10.142 million last year.Subscribers can access the Cinema Database by selecting “Cinema” from the drop-down box at the top of this page.Source:… Continue reading Cinema Admissions Up 12% In July

National display advertising revenue in the regional and local press has grown by 14.4% year on year to £55.5 million for the first quarter of this year, according to the Advertising Association’s latest survey. This is the highest growth the regional press industry has achieved in a decade.It also outperforms TV (up 6.7%), national press… Continue reading Regional Press Ad Revenue Grows

Carlton Communications today announced that it had acquired rights to the Rohauer Film Collection, which includes over 600 films, for its digital TV movie channel as well as export abroad.The collection contains mainly early films such as The Birth of a Nation, The Mark of Zorro, The Thief of Bagdad and The Phantom of the… Continue reading Carlton Buys More Films