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Classic FM has been awarded a licence to broadcast in Finland. The station in Finland will be a commercial station, aimed at a similar target group to that in the UK and the Netherlands.

With the decision over the National Lottery winner due within two weeks, Rank Organisation is now one of the favourites, together with the Camelot Consortium and the Great British Lottery Company.

According to a report in the Sunday Times this week, the Guardian Media Group is considering merging the troubled Observer paper with the Independent on Sunday. Losses at the Observer are running at an estimated £1m a month. Tentative discussions have taken place with Mirror Group Newspapers.TECHNOLOGY SUPPLEMENT FOR GUARDIANThis Thursday the Guardian is to… Continue reading Observer/IoS Merger?

In response to recent challenges over accuracy of data, the NRS is to release graphs giving long term trends. News International has questioned the discrepancies between readership and circulation figures for the period July – December 1993, when the Sun’s readership figures dropped, despite constant rising circulations. More recent readership data shows Sun readership rising.Roger… Continue reading NRS Response To Readership Discrepancies

The IPA has written to the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, Michael Heseltine, asking for reassurance that the DTI does not intend to overrule the latest ITC statement concerning TV sales limits. The statement said that the combination of The Time Exchange and Laser sales would represent a “significant excess over the 25%… Continue reading IPA Appeals To DTI On Granada Sales

BBC Journalists belonging to the National Union of Journalists yesterday voted by 79% in favour of strike action. This follows the support of staff in the BECTU union in favour of striking. A series of 24-hour lightning strikes is being planned in a dispute over pay and conditions. Sport, news and current affairs would be… Continue reading BBC Strikes More Likely

Attic Futura is planning to launch a magazine aimed at young women, to compete with Emap’s Just Seventeen and IPC’s 19. Details of the magazine are not yet available. Emap is also said to be looking at launching into the young women’s sector, to compete with IPC’s Me.MAGAZINE LATESTAccountancy Age Magazine is to close in… Continue reading Rival To Just 17 And 19

Flextech, Britain’s only quoted cable and satellite TV company, reported pre- tax losses of £6.6m in 1993. Flextech has recently taken a 20% stake in HTV. Roger Luard, managing director said, “The results are academic in the sense that our circumstances have been transformed.” Flextech has merged with United Artists European Holdings.

Westminster Press has launched three weekly newspapers in northwest Yorkshire; The Craven Star, Ilkley Star and Wharfedale Star. Each title will have a pagination of 42, with the combined circulation being 45,000.NOTTINGHAM POST TO BE SOLD FOR £80MThe Nottingham Evening Post is to be sold for more than £80m, according to Media Week sources. The… Continue reading New Yorkshire Titles

John Smith, Labour leader has died this morning after suffering a major heart attack at his London flat. He was 55. Mr Smith was taken to hospital but resuscitation attempts were unsuccessful. He was pronounced dead at 9.15am.He suffered a major heart attack in 1988, but he appeared to have made a complete recovery.