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GCap Media continues to add to its celebrity line-up of presenters for its flagship radio stations, with actor Richard E Grant becoming the newest recruit.Grant will make his radio-presenting debut on Classic FM towards the end of July with a new programme entitled Great Movie Composers, which explores the lives and music of Hollywood’s greatest… Continue reading Richard E Grant To Present New Classic FM Show

By far the biggest audience last night was for ITV1’s Spain v France World Cup coverage, with a peak of 9.6 million adult viewers watching a great game of football where the French eventually emerged as 3-1 winners.An average audience of 7.2 million adults (a 36% audience share) watched as Spain tried their hardest to… Continue reading France Score For ITV1

Television audiences have been booming at the World Cup and advertisers have beenImpacts have been consistently high for each of the knock out games and evening matches in the second round Cup have been attracting consistently large audiences, with even the dull match between Ukraine and Switzerland peaking at more than 8 million viewers.Meanwhile, Vauxhall… Continue reading BBC Worldwide Reveals Profit Rise Of 62% To £89 Million

Profits at BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the BBC, more than doubled within two years and grew 62% in the year to the end of March, reaching £89 million.2005-6 is the second consecutive year of record profitability for BBC Worldwide. In 2003-4 the company produced a profit of £37 million and in 2004-5 this… Continue reading BBC Worldwide Reveals Profit Rise Of 62% To £89 Million

Emap Advertising in Scotland will get a further boost with the appointment of Jenny Clarke to the new role of head of sponsorship, promotions and client sales.Clarke, who was previously client development group head at GWR Radio, will take up the role at the beginning of next month, reporting to commercial director Barry Wood, who… Continue reading New Appointment To Enhance Emap Advertising In Scotland

Worldwide sales of consumer magazines were up by 100 million copies or 7.4% year on year in 2005, with the industry recording its highest rate of growth in sales for decades between 2004 and 2005.According to the World Advertising Resource Centre’s new Advertising Statistics Yearbook, more than 1.4 billion magazines were sold last year, with… Continue reading Global Consumer Magazine Sales Booming

Times newspapers will run further text offers after the remarkable success of a recent free DVD via text message promotion, which generated 100,000 responses via mobile phones.The promotion ran in both the Times and the Sunday Times, offering children’s films like Alice In Wonderland, The Railway Children and The Jungle Book to readers who sent… Continue reading Times Newspapers To Run More Text Message DVD Promos

WPP worldwide revenues were up 17% for the first five months of the year on a reportable basis, with a growth of over 13% in constant currencies. The trading update was provided at the group’s AGM today by Philip Lader, chairman of WPP. The United Kingdom was the only region not to show double-digit revenue… Continue reading WPP Reports Growth For First Five Months of 2006

GCap Media has shelled out £2.6 million in severance payments to ousted directors, and chairman of the company’s remuneration committee, Alastair Ross Goobey, has apologised to shareholders. The non-executive issued an unprecedented statement offering a full explanation for the sums paid to David Mansfield, the former chief executive, and other former colleagues. Mansfield left the… Continue reading GCap Media Says Sorry To Shareholders

UBC Media has raised £3 million in order to invest in digital music download technology that allows listeners to buy music from radio stations via a handheld mobile device.The songs will be available for download from digital radio stations, with reports in the trade press putting the cost of each song at £1.25 (60p more… Continue reading UBC Media To Invest In Digital Radio Download Technology