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thelondonpaper racked up losses of almost £13 million and nearly doubled the size of its overdraft to over £26 million in the 12 months to the end of June 2008.News International’s NI Free Newspapers subsidy, which was specifically set up to publish the Murdoch-owned freesheet, reported a pre-tax loss of £12.9 million, according to accounts… Continue reading thelondonpaper cuts losses but doubles overdraft

IPC Media has launched its third international edition of interiors monthly title Living etc in India.The English-language magazine, which will be published by Images Group under a licence in India, is set to launch with a cover price of 100 Rupees (£1.35).IPC has also launched international versions of Living etc in Thailand and Cyprus.“The last… Continue reading Living etc launches in India

Afternoon freesheet thelondonpaper has relaunched its website with a fresh look designed to be more engaging to users.The new-look site, designed by agency Nomensa, features more advertising opportunities and allows readers to include their interactions with the paper on their Facebook page.Serena Kutchinsky, former managing editor of Time Out has been hired as editor of… Continue reading thelondonpaper revamps website

The latest RAJAR figures, for Q1 2009, are released today, with Magic 105.4 recording the highest weekly reach in London for the ninth consecutive quarter.Johnny Vaughan’s 95.8 Capital Radio breakfast show, meanwhile, remained the Capital’s top morning listen, with a weekly reach of more than 1 million, after an impressive year on year increase of… Continue reading RAJAR Q1 2009: Round-up

Although BBC Radio 2 once again had the largest weekly reach figure of any national station, it was down 1.3% year on year to around 13.5 million listeners.BBC Radio 1 remained unchanged year on year, at 11 million listeners, according to the latest RAJAR figures, for Q1 2009.Commercial chat and sport station talkSPORT suffered a… Continue reading RAJAR Q1 09: National Stations

JCDecaux has revealed that UK street furniture and billboard revenues declined in the first quarter of 2009. Chief executive of JCDecaux, Jean-Charles Decaux, predicted a group-wide revenue decline of 15% for the first half of 2009, as the company posted a revenue decline of 11.9% in Q1. Across the group, the company’s street furniture revenue… Continue reading JCDecaux sees Q1 decline in UK street furniture and billboard revenues

Sir Alan Sugar’s on-going quest for The Apprentice pulled in the highest ratings during the all-important 9pm to 10pm peak-hour last night with more than 8.1 million peak viewers.Around 7.8 million average viewers tuned in to watch the aspiring entrepreneurs test their sales skills in the North-West of England, only to find another one of… Continue reading The Apprentice comes up trumps

Total US advertising expenditures declined 4.1% year on year in 2008, to $141.7, according to new data from TNS Media Intelligence. TNS found that ad spending during the fourth quarter of 2008 plunged 9.2% against the same period in 2007. Jon Swallen, SVP research at TNS Media Intelligence, said: “The ad market at 2008 year… Continue reading US ad expenditures fall 4.1% year on year

Rupert Murdoch said he plans to charge users to read The Times‘ and The Sun‘s online content following the success of the Wall Street Journal‘s pay model.Murdoch said he would test the pay model on his stronger titles, in a similar way he charges people for the WSJ’s online business news, and if it proves… Continue reading Murdoch set to charge for online content

All Commercial radio enjoyed a year on year rise in weekly reach in the three months to the end March, according to the latest RAJAR figures.Its share of listening was down 0.6 percentage points period on period, although it was up year on year.Share of ListeningAll Commercial saw its share of listening rise 0.5 percentage… Continue reading RAJAR Q1 09: BBC & Commercial