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Emap Entertainment is launching an online dieting and healthy eating website from its hugely successful women’s magazine Closer, as part of the company’s strategy to expand key brands across multiple platforms.The site will be promoted heavily via Closer magazine, reaching more than 1.3 million women a week along with support from other on and offline… Continue reading Emap Launches Closer Website

ITV Sales has today announced that Clerical Medical, the pensions and investments provider, is to sponsor a package of prime-time dramas on ITV’s family of channels in a deal worth around £2 million.The deal covers the new series of Life Begins this autumn on ITV1, Where The Heart Is, new drama Jane Hall on ITV1… Continue reading Clerical Medical in £2 million ITV Sponsorship Deal

BSkyB could soon enter the “free” broadband battle arena after the company’s chairman, Rupert Murdoch, told investors in his News Corporation that the group would unveil its broadband strategy in the middle of July.The full launch of BSkyB’s internet and voice-call service is expected soon after. The broadcaster is considering offering deals such as free… Continue reading BSkyB Could Enter “Free” Broadband Battle

According to reports in the trade press, MTV is looking for a digital agency to provide support for the launch of a user-generated content channel.The reports claim that the broadcaster is intending to launch a television channel made up wholly of user-generated content, with negotiations with the agencies expected to be finalised some time later… Continue reading MTV Could Launch User-Generated Content Channel

Social networking website MySpace has unveiled plans for global expansion and a new mobile phone service that will allow its 87 million global users to connect to the service wherever they are.MySpace chief executive Chris DeWolfe said the site, which has more than three million registered users in the UK, would expand into ten new… Continue reading MySpace Set For Further Expansion And Mobile Network

England’s bitter defeat to Portugal netted a peak of 16.8 million adult viewers on Saturday afternoon for BBC One, with 75.6% of the adult viewing population tuning in.However, this was less than watched the England v Sweden match earlier in the tournament, which drew 17.9 million adult viewers, probably owing to the game falling on… Continue reading 16.8 Million Adults Share England’s Bitter Exit From World Cup

Classic FM, GCap Media’s classical music radio station, has won ‘National Sales Team of the Year’ for the third year running at the Arqiva Commercial Radio Awards.This is the first time the award has been won by the same team three years in a row. GCap Media also received radio station of the year accolades… Continue reading Classic FM Wins Another Award For GCap Media

Financial freesheet City AM plans to raise its readership further by giving away 100,000 copies each day, a much higher distribution than paid-for sales at the Financial Times, which sold just over 92,500 copies in Britain and Ireland last month.City AM‘s advertising is exceeding expectations and the paper will break even in its second year… Continue reading City AM Set To Distribute 100,000 Copies Per Day

DC Thomson is about to increase its stake in UBC, the UK’s largest independent radio production company, according to reports in the Financial Times. The report says that with 13% the publisher, based in Redhill in Surrey, would become the largest outside investor in UBC. In March this year DC Thomson purchased Aberdeen Journals (giving… Continue reading DC Thomson To Increase Stake In UBC

Paul Davidson, chairman and chief executive of Newsquest Media Group, officially becomes president of the Newspaper Society tomorrow, succeeding Sir Nicholas Hewitt Bt, chairman and managing director of the Barnsley Chronicle. Davidson has been chairman of Newsquest Media Group since August 2003, and chief executive since August 2001. He began his newspaper career with Thomson… Continue reading Paul Davidson Appointed President Of The Newspaper Society