Wednesday Southern Newspaper group release final year financial results.Friday Guardian Media Group release final year financial results.Also this week: WPP is expected to formally announce the merger of Olgivy & Mather’s and JWT’s media buying operations; the Daily Star‘s Website, Megastar, will be Website of the Week; a Web Round-Up will also appear on Newsline.
The BBC Online department will launch a 24-hour news service on its Internet site next month. A BBC spokeswoman said that it is the BBC’s aim to provide continuous news in response to research which confirms that this is what people want. It is reported that the Corporation is putting £10m a year into a… Continue reading BBC Plans To Launch 24-Hour Internet News
Future Publishing, which is part of the international Pearson Plc media group, has appointed James Pembroke as publisher in the Entertainment division. He will be responsible for SFX, the science fiction magazine and the recently launched cult tv title.Pembroke joins Future from The Oldie where he was business manager for the last five years. He… Continue reading New Publisher For Future’s Entertainment Division
Following the purchase of the dance stations Kiss 102 in Manchester and Kiss 105 in Yorkshire, Chrysalis Radio is to rename the stations Galaxy 102 and Galaxy 105 respectively. The stations’ previous owners, Faze FM Radio Ltd, had entered an agreement with EMAP Radio in order to franchise the Kiss brand; Chrysalis, however, believe that… Continue reading Radio Briefs
ITV has announced new marketing initiatives in conjunction with its children’s programming on CITV. In association with its schedule of drama and events, it is offering advertisers the opportunity to sponsor specific programmes and promotions. Advertisers are being offered the chance to use the CITV idents between programmes as a sponsorship vehicle.According to ITV its… Continue reading New Promotional And Marketing Initiatives At CITV
Press Gazette reports today that the new Irish national newspaper, Ireland On Sunday, will be launched this weekend.Incorporating the existing Sunday sports paper, The Title, the paper will be in three sections. According to the editor Liam Hayes, the paper will be “fresh, stylistic, contemporary and fast-moving.” It is backed by a consortium of Irish… Continue reading Ireland On Sunday Launches This Weekend
The Media Business has promoted three of its former associate directors to full directors. Mark Collins, Nick Lawson and David Porter have been promoted in recognition of their contributions to the growth of the agency, according to group managing director, Stephen Allan. The group’s most recent win was the £15m Video Collection International.…Giles Howard will… Continue reading Appointment News
The new teenage cable channel Rapture is to have an air-time sales team based at the ITV sales house, TSMS, which will be led by former broadcast director of Initiative Marketing, Robert Ditcham. TSMS is owned by United News & Media which also has a major shareholding in Rapture.Rapture‘s programming will target the upper end… Continue reading Rapture Sets Up Sales Operation With TSMS
30 Beautiful Homes is dubbed “The magazine you’ve always wanted.” Naturally, this depends on what it is you’ve always wanted to do. On the one hand, you may wish to spend, if you have it, vast amounts of money converting and creating one of these ‘beautiful homes’ and filling it with all manner of antique… Continue reading Pilot Issue Review – 30 Beautiful Homes
Interim pre-tax profits rose 12% year on year to £43.7m for the Mirror Group. Growth in advertising revenue assisted this, with Classified ads being particularly strong with a 24% increase. Losses at L!ve TV fell and it is expected that The Independent will enter into profit next year.Mirror Group: 0171 293 3000
