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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

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

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

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

Guardian Media Group chief executive Carolyn McCall believes that the Guardian could charge for some specialist content on its website.Speaking at this week’s FIPP World Magazine Congress in London, McCall said that sections such as MediaGuardian.co.uk could eventually see users paying for the content.“More people are looking seriously at how they can make money charging… Continue reading Guardian could charge for online content

Magic 105.4 remains above all the other London stations for the ninth consecutive quarter in terms of weekly reach, despite falling behind Heart 106.2 FM in both share of listening and average hours per listener, according to RAJAR figures for Q1 2009.Magic’s average weekly reach in London is back above the 2 million listeners’ mark… Continue reading RAJAR Q1 09: London Stations

This analysis is comparing the weekly reach of the breakfast shows of the London stations and not the time slots. Heart 106.2 FM’s and Magic 105.4’s breakfast shows currently run from 6am-9am, while 95.8 Capital Radio’s runs from 6am-10am.Johnny Vaughan’s 95.8 Capital Radio breakfast show remains on top in the Capital with a weekly reach… Continue reading RAJAR Q1 09: Breakfast

Channel Five’s owner RTL has announced its interim results statement for the first three months of the year, which claims that Five “underperformed” in the UK TV ad market.The pan-European TV broadcaster said Five’s ad spend was down by more than 17% year on year in Q1 2009 and that TV advertising “declined by double-digit… Continue reading RTL unveils Five’s Q1 performance

Felix Dennis, founder and chairman of Dennis Publishing, has said that magazine publishers should take advantage of the current economic downturn to focus on innovation.Speaking at this week’s FIPP World Magazine Congress, Dennis urged delegates to look at the success of Maxim magazine, which he launched in the US during tough economic times in 1997.He… Continue reading Felix Dennis calls for magazine innovation