Derek Morris, Ivan Pollard and Andy Tilley, the three senior media executives who are forming a partnership to launch a media consultancy firm *Media Consultancy To Launch, are slowly spilling the beans on their new venture. It has been reported that the new agency will open for business on July 4 and will be based… Continue reading July 4 Day Launch Date For New Independent
Capital 95.8 FM has signed up Jeff Young for its Saturday night spot. Young has worked at Radio 1 and Jazz FM and has most recently presented the Saturday and Sunday lunchtime shows on Kiss 100FM.This move suggests that Capital is trying to move away from its mainstream image to attract a more sophisticated audience.Capital… Continue reading Capital Tries To Broaden Its Audience
The KPMG Commercial Radio Awards have been announced and the winners are as follows:Essex FM were named Commercial Radio Station Of The Year, this was due to a major turnaround in all aspects of local involvement, output and revenue.Ian Axton and Gary Haberfield of Spire FM took the award for Excellence In Station Marketing.Tina Fewster… Continue reading The Commercial Radio Awards
The informal group of electronic publishers and new media sales houses which formed last year has called itself the Interactive Ad Group. The Group includes representatives from the electronic arms of Conde Nast, the Telegraph and the Mirror Group as well as New Media Marketing & Sales and aims to promote Web advertising to agencies… Continue reading Interactive Ad Group Launches
Up until the end of last year EMAP’s Empire and Premiere titles were the only mainstream news-stand magazines which catered for film fans. Then, as if publishers all of a sudden woke up to the fact that the movie magazine market was just waiting to explode, four new titles were launched in the space of… Continue reading Film Magazines – Market Round-Up
In the dispute between CableTel UK Ltd and L!VE TV, the High Court has ruled that CableTel had technically met its carriage operation contract with the TV company.The cable channel had been excluded from the First Choice package recently launched by CableTel; L!VE challenged the legality of this. In May, a court order ruled that… Continue reading L!VE Cable Dispute
Three key employees of Independent Radio Group have cut their links with the company. Neil Jones, the sales and marketing director, has left; the individual stations will now take full responsibility for their sales and marketing needs. Peter Milburn, managing director of 1458 Lite AM, and Ian Smith, marketing director of Scot FM, have also… Continue reading Movement In The Ranks
Dedicated radio services licensed by the Radio Authority, will be covering a number of major sporting and music events this Summer.For the first time Royal Ascot Day Radio took to the airwaves on 17-21 June and Special Olympics FM is also broadcasting for the first time for three weeks leading up to the National Summer… Continue reading Dedicated Radio Services To Launch This Summer
Anna Ford, a presenter on Radio 4’s Today Programme, has been reprimanded for saying ‘shit’ while on-air. The Broadcasting Standards Commission upheld the complaints of viewers, and said that there had been no justification for the bad language.In a separate case, three viewers complained about a sex scene in McCallum, a drama about a pathologist.… Continue reading Swearing Today
Revenue The combined terrestrial TV revenue for May, according to agency estimates, came in at £193.31 million which is a drop of 3.83% year-on-year. ITV’s revenue fell 5.7% year on year to £148.81m while Channel 4’s rose 2.2% to £46.5m. The ratio between ITV and C4 revenue for May was 76:24. It is also estimated… Continue reading TV Round-Up – May
