TMP Worldwide is in the process of trying to buy Austin Knight, it has emerged. David Basham, Corporate Affairs Director at Austin Knight, told MediaTel: “TMP has made an offer and this is now subject to a shareholders meeting on 22 September.”The Austin Knight identity will be retained and no immediate changes are planned. TMP’s… Continue reading TMP Set To Buy Austin Knight
Danny Baker’s Saturday evening football phone-in programme, 5.30 – 7.30pm on Talk Radio, is to be sponsored by the News of the World newspaper. The deal, worth £250,000, runs throughout the 1997/97 football season and follows the news that Talk Radio has secured the football commentary rights for the Nationwide League previously held by Radio… Continue reading News Of The World To Sponsor Baker Show
William Arnold, previously publishing director at EMAP Media and responsible for the development of Brad’s electronic service has been appointed Business Development Director of the high-tech Internet news service, NEWSdesk International Limited. Arnold will preside over the expansion of the NEWSdesk formula into other industry sectors.At the same time, Jane Brown, former publisher of Press… Continue reading Arnold Leaves EMAP For NEWSdesk
IPC’s Southbank Publishing Group has announced that there is to be a restructuring of the ad sales team working across all 17 of the group’s titles. The new structure will mean that there will be only two tiers of ad sales management – Ad Directors and Ad Managers and will come into effect from 1… Continue reading IPC Changes Ad Sales Structure
According to the report Social Focus on Families published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) the image of the traditional family is disappearing. The number of first time marriages has halved, while the number of divorces has increased by three times. Lone parents now account for around a quarter of all families with children.… Continue reading Traditional Family Structure Changing Says New Report
The Media Centre began trading as MediaVest this week. The rebranding reflects a general restructuring of the MacManus Group’s media businesses. As part of this Jim Marshall, managing director of the Media Centre, becomes chief executive of MediaVest. “Vest” is believed to represent the word “investment.”
CIA MediaLab has published details of its latest Sensor survey which was carried out by BMRB. It states that only 21% of the British public have an understanding of the Internet, which is up from 8% in 1995.Among 15-24 year olds it is reported that 35% are familiar with the Internet, a figure that has… Continue reading Internet Increases Its Popularity Among The Young
Adrian Ford has left Pilat Media, the company which runs the NOMAD advertising booking system, to join Coral Racing as Business Development Manager.
Agency estimates put the combined ITV/C4 revenue for June at £184.2m, while Channel 5 brought in £9.7m . ITV’s revenue was put at £140.2m, while C4’s was £44m.It was the London broadcasters which experienced the greatest year on year changes among the ITV contractors, with Carlton seeing an increase in share of 1.57% points to… Continue reading TV Round-Up – June
Chrysalis Group announced this morning that it will be buying the Kiss radio stations in Manchester and Yorkshire.The deal values the stations at £17.5m and Chrysalis, which owns the Heart and Galaxy 101 stations, will be funding the expansion through a £20m placing and open offer at 525p a share.Kiss 102, in Manchester, has a… Continue reading Chrysalis Buys Kiss Stations
