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Emap has promoted FHM features editor Ross Brown to take over from departing editor David Davies at the helm of its market leading men’s lifestyle magazine.Brown takes over as editor at a difficult time for FHM, which has been hard hit by the multimillion launch of weekly rivals, Nuts and Zoo, which entered the sector… Continue reading FHM Appoints New Editor As Competition Hots Up

The latest ABC regional newspaper figures for the six months to June 2004 open a mixed bag of results for the UK’s top ten paid regional newspaper groups, with the highest circulating publishers amongst the worst hit. The market leading Sunday World All Editions Group suffered a decline in combined circulation of 3.7% year on… Continue reading ABC Regional Newspapers: Jan-Jun 2004

Sky One will receive an extensive revamp this autumn as its on and off-air branding is updated with a range of new idents and a new logo designed to coincide with the launch of the broadcaster’s new schedule.A spokesman for Sky One confirmed that the new branding would accompany Sky’s high-profile new acquisitions. He said:… Continue reading Sky One Gets Facelift In Time For Autumn Schedule

The Hallmark Channel is launching a national advertising campaign to support the UK premier of US police dramas Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and Law & Order: Criminal Intent, which will air on the channel next month.The marketing campaign, which has been created by Skin Media, launches this week and runs until mid-September with… Continue reading Hallmark Launches Campaign To Push Police Dramas

Cash-strapped Cosmopolitan readers have been thrown a lifeline by the magazine’s website as it prepares to launch a new online service offering impartial financial advice.The new service, dubbed CosmoMoney, will build on the popularity of the magazine’s website, cosmopolitan.co.uk and will offer advice on getting the best deals on everything from household bills to personal… Continue reading Cosmopolitan Offers Online Readers Financial Advice

MSN UK has restructured its sales team in an attempt to increase revenues and improve client services as the boom in internet advertising continues.The shake-up has seen the sales division doubled over the last three months to include 43 members, with a new sales strategy and planning team created to support the existing advertising, agency,… Continue reading MSN Restructures Sales Team To Cash In on Web Boom

As a result of better than expected advertising revenue at Johnston Press, Merrill Lynch has revised upwards its advertising growth forecast for the regional newspaper publisher to 5.3% this year and 4% in 2005. In light of Johnston Press posting impressive profit growth of 16%, to £77.3 million from January to June 2004, Merrill Lynch… Continue reading Latest Johnston Press Forecasts From Merrill Lynch

Bluewin, a division of Swiss telecoms group, Swisscom, is set to become the first European commercial trialist of the new Microsoft television system, which will initially provide 600 homes with 25 channels via broadband telephone lines. As well as receiving multiple new channels from September, participants will also have access to five pay-television channels and… Continue reading Trials Of Microsoft TV Begin In Europe

Merrill Lynch has today announced that it is revising down its 2004 and 2005 US advertising forecast to 6.5% and 5.2% respectively, due to increased pressure being put on advertising agency margins. Despite slightly tweaking down the targets in the US, the global advertising forecast remains unchanged for this year at 5.5%, with 2005 sliding… Continue reading Merrill Lynch Lowers US Ad Forecasts For 2004 & 2005

BSkyB was seen in focus yesterday with a good day’s trading pushing the broadcaster’s share price up by 1.38% to close at 477˝p. Sky One recently unveiled its autumn schedule with a focus on ‘distinctive, high quality and high concept’ programming in an attempt to clean up its image (see Sky One Cleans Up Schedule… Continue reading Sharewatch: BSkyB Sees Rise As Schedules Cleaned Up