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The Competition Commission has today announced that it will force Global Radio to sell stations in seven areas of the UK as part of a fair acquisition of Real and Smooth.

Trader Media Group has completed its transition to an online digital business and will publish the final edition of its entire magazine portfolio next month after huge declines in print sales over the last ten years – but with 11 million unique users to Autotrader.co.uk each month, things still look good for the business.

Channel 4 beats BSkyB and Channel 5 to sign an exclusive, three-year deal to partner for TV ad sales on three BT Sport channels.

CBS Outdoor, one of the UK’s leading outdoor media companies, has questioned whether London advertising should be up-weighted to match the vast economic differences between the capital and the rest of the country.

CBS Outdoor, in association with MediaTel, is holding the ‘All Eyes on London’ event on Friday 26th April at London’s Living Room at City Hall, and will give insight into the UK’s prosperous capital city and the effects that it has – and will continue to have – on both the media and the advertising industry.

Simon Fox, chief executive of Trinity Mirror has said that his publishing group will not place any of its content behind a paywall, choosing instead to expand the reach and quality of his publications, as Lord Rothermere, chairman of DMGT, has said that the MailOnline will also remain free, but the media wing of his business is experimenting with ‘freemium’ models with the launch of Daily Mail Plus.

The Guardian has today launched a new digital platform that will allow readers to contribute to live news and other content in a bid to build upon its “open journalism” publishing drive.

Guardian Media & News and Faber and Faber will be joining forces to offer a unique publishing opportunity built upon “independence, innovation and quality” in a bid to supplement decreasing ad revenues that print is struggling to sustain.

After 37 years at the company, Sylvia Auton has announced her retirement as CEO of IPC Media and will step down this coming May.

MediaTel is launching a brand new event at the end of this month, covering the rapidly growing online video market, which was valued at £70 million last year.