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IPC’s high-profile music weekly NME will undergo a revamp this week, with both its printed and online editions receiving a facelift.The activity, which marks the culmination of over a year of research and development, encompasses a new design and restructuring of the magazine, alongside a complete re-build for the website and a major investment in… Continue reading NME Revamp To Capitalise On Sales Rise

Internet operator Yahoo! is to begin billing itself as a broadcast platform, with the company’s chief executive, Terry Sempel, stating that the company offered other broadcasters the best chance of generating revenue from their archives.Speaking at the Royal Television Society conference in Cambridge, Sempel told delegates that Yahoo!’s online search is an ideal way to… Continue reading Yahoo! To Create Online Television Platform

Daily Newspaper MarketThe daily newspaper market continued to see readership decline during July, with only the Times and the Guardian achieving any year on year increase in readers.The Guardian saw a particularly strong performance, with its readership for July adding 25.1% year on year. The Times also achieved a rise, adding 11.5% in the same… Continue reading NRS National Newspaper Round-Up: July 2005

Culture secretary Tessa Jowell is reportedly considering a one-off cash payment to Channel 4 in order to secure its future following digital switchover, with a paragraph dropped from her speech to the Royal Television Society convention in Cambridge indicating that she is in favour of financial aid to the broadcaster in the near future.The missing… Continue reading Jowell Mulling Licence Fee Gift To Channel 4

The IPA has elected six new agencies into membership at its quarterly council meeting, welcoming several specialists in full service, marketing communications, digital media, direct response, and media planning and buying.The new members, Albion, Chalk & Ward Advertising, Connect Advertising & Marketing LLP, Summit Media, MediaVest (Leeds) and Total Media Direct takes the total number… Continue reading IPA Elects Six New Member Agencies

Today sees the National Readership Survey (NRS) release new data sets for journalists and media commentators, intended to avoid conclusions being drawn on less statistically significant readership changes.The new data sets, covering the six and twelve month periods ending June 2005, are available to NRS subscribers from today and will be updated every quarter.The figures… Continue reading NRS Hopes For Clearer Analysis On New Data

GCap Media has announced the resignation of chief executive David Mansfield, who will leave the company in January to be succeeded by current executive chairman, Ralph Bernard.Mansfield will remain with GCap in order to oversee the final stages of the company’s post-merger integration, which has been on-going since the consolidation of Capital Radio and GWR… Continue reading Mansfield To Leave GCap Media

Daily Newspaper MarketThe nation’s national daily newspapers saw a slip in readership during June, with the market as a whole shedding 7.6% year on year. The dip, which was the result of heavy declines across the mid market and popular sectors, translates to a departure of more than 2 million readers across the daily market.Quality… Continue reading NRS National Newspaper Round-Up: June 2005

ITV has been eliminated in the race for control of Telewest’s Flextech television business, it was claimed over the weekend, with the Sunday Times stating that the broadcaster has failed to pass the second round of bids.According to the newspaper, Deutsche Bank, the investment bank conducting the sale process, has informed ITV of its failure,… Continue reading Flextech Bidding Narrows As ITV Dropped

Virgin Radio has hailed its latest online offering as a success after just two weeks, with the Tim Lovejoy Show rocketing into the top five podcasts in the iTunes chart.The success of the Sunday afternoon sports show follows Virgin’s decision to offer it as a downloadable podcast last month, building on its first podcast exercise… Continue reading Virgin Sees Podcast Success With Tim Lovejoy