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Nicky Lee and David Casson become Press Buying Directors at Zenith after Steve Booth’s departure to start KLB (NewsLine 3/10).

Squires Robertson Gill have opened a new office in Cardiff; the first media independent to operate in South Wales. Speaking to MediaTel today Managing Director of SRG London Mike Gill said: “The main reason for opening the office was to take advantage of the available media talent in the area.”The office is run by Peter… Continue reading SRG Open Cardiff Office

The director general of the Cable Authority, Jon Davey, speaking at the Financial Times Conference on ‘Investm- ent Opportunities in British Broadcasting’, yesterday set out four guidelines controlling the sale or takeover of cable franchises. Davey said the following guidelines are likely to be adopted by the ITC next January:(1) Any change of ownership requires… Continue reading Cable Franchise Guidelines

Kiss FM has released its first audience research data based on a survey conducted by Audience Selection to JICRAR specifications. The telephone survey, involving 1000 people aged 10+, found that the station has a weekly audience of 0.75m and that 60% of this audience are aged 15-24. Weekly Reach By Age Group: 15-34 – 17%… Continue reading Kiss FM Research

The GWR Group has published its second Independent Radio Industry Report focussing on the potential of radio in the 1990s. The report includes contributions from Radio Clyde, Capital Radio and Saatchi & Saatchi. Among its findings is the prediction that radio’s share of ad spend will grow from 2.1% to 2.6% by 1995 and that… Continue reading GWR Radio Report

Former Allen Brady and Marsh media planning director Bob Nowak has been appointed commercial director of sales and marketing at AGB (081 997 8484).

The Association Of Media Independents has altered its membership rules so that independents with 20% or more of their shares owned by working directors can become members; only fully independent companies had been admitted previously

The House of Lords last night defeated an attempt to impose stricter controls on cross-ownership of satellite TV and newspapers. The main stumbling block proved to be the fact that the rules would not extend to non-domestic services such as Rupert Murdoch’s Sky Television.

Capital Radio has launched the Capital Radio Campaign Evaluation Service, a new permanent panel of Londoners, enabling advertisers to research their campaigns on both the FM and Gold services. Drawing on Capital’s previous research experience the panel will be made up of 10,000 individuals from which a sample from any particular target group can be… Continue reading Capital Radio Evaluation Service

The men’s magazine For Him (071-247- 5447) has apologised to the Audit Bureau of Circulations for exaggerating its sales figures for the periods July to December 89 and January to June 90. For Him published a circulation figure of 57,198, for July to December 89, before it had been certified by the ABC who gave… Continue reading For Him Exagerated Sales