Chris Evans yesterday announced that he would be leaving BBC Radio 1’s Breakfast Show at the end of March. His decision follows various wranglings with the station’s controller Matthew Bannister, though the catalyst seems to have been the fact that his request to have every Friday off was refused. In the past he has failed… Continue reading Evans Leaves Radio 1
Emap Computing, a branch of Emap magazines, has joined forces with New York-based CMP Media Inc to launch Information Week.Information Week will be a fortnightly, information technology, news magazine. Launching in March, it is to be based on CMP’s successful US title of the same name. It will be targeted at IT decision makers whose… Continue reading Emap Looks Stateside
According to the trade press, Centaur Communications, the publishers of Money Marketing and Marketing Week, is to go to the stock market for a full listing in the Autumn. Centaur have an estimated market price of £150 million. Floatation will give the company funds to continue its proposed programme of magazine launches and moves into… Continue reading Centaur To Go Public
News International has declared a price war in Scotland by selling the Monday edition of the Sun for just 10p. This once weekly price drop of 12 pence is to continue for an indefinite period. Not to be outdone The Mirror cut its price on Monday and is threatening further price cuts.Meanwhile, the Daily Mail… Continue reading Paper Price War In Scotland
XFM, the indie rock station which has won the new FM licence for London, is set to Launch on 1 September. Its backers include CLT (owners of Atlantic 252 and London’s Country FM), which has a 20% stake, The Cure’s Robert Smith and Harvey Goldsmith, the concert promoter. The station told Newsline however that details… Continue reading Xfm To Launch In September
Taylor Nelson AGB now has an advertising tracking system that will enable the market research company to compete with Millward Brown, the field leader. Taylor Nelson’s new system, BrandVision tracks consumer commitment to a brand. It is also hoped that it will discover what makes a consumer switch brand and how likely this is to… Continue reading New Ad Tracking System Hits The Market
Car company Renault UK has signed a sponsorship deal with Classic FM’s Hall of Fame ’97 in an on-air package worth £120,000.The three month promotion, which runs until the end of March, gives listeners the chance to win a top of the range Renault Megane Classic RXE, worth £15,000.Listeners enter the competition by voting for… Continue reading Classic FM Wins Renault Sponsorship
Thomas Crosbie Holdings (T.C.H.L), has withdrawn from the Radio Ireland Consortium within which it had a 15% stake. T.C.H.L. stated that it has quit the Consortium as a result of “specific concerns which emerged in recent negotiations between the Independent Radio and Television Commission, I.R.T.C, and Radio Ireland.”The I.R.T.C, however, wish to make it clear… Continue reading Stakeholder Withdraws From Radio Ireland Consortium
TheIndependent On Sunday is getting bigger on January 19. It is also going to get better and brighter if you believe the marketing hype.In terms of page space it is certainly expanding. The news section will have extra pages of comment and analysis and two, brand new, separate sections have been added. The first will… Continue reading Independent On Sunday Expands
Channel 5 has revealed that its news coverage, 5 News, will focus on people more than politics in an attempt to offer the younger viewers a fresh current affairs perspective.In an interview to Press Gazette magazine, Tim Gardam, controller of Channel 5 News, said that the key differences to the Nine O’Clock News and News… Continue reading C5 News To Be People Led
