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Richard Desmond’s Express Newspapers has appointed Victoria Hazell, former advertisement manager at IPC Connect, as its group magazine controller with responsibility for a range of celebrity titles including OK!, New! and Star.The move will see Hazell charged with some of the company’s biggest brands, as well as the Daily Express and Sunday Express‘s magazine supplements.… Continue reading Express Plunders IPC For New Celebrity Magazine Head

Scottish Radio Holdings today announced that group revenue for the first half of this year has jumped by 10%, spurred on by strong press and radio performance throughout the period.Group turnover, for the period ending 31 March 2004, grew by 14% to £47.2 million, up from £41.5 million on the same period last year, with… Continue reading Strong Radio And Press Revenue Spur On Profits At SRH

Wanadoo, the UK’s largest internet service provider, has secured a high-profile deal to promote its range of internet services in more than 85 Maplin Electronics stores across the country.The new deal, which soft-launched last month, will see Wanadoo become Maplin’s exclusive internet provider, which means that computers bought from the electronic retailer’s stores will come… Continue reading Wanadoo Bolsters High-Street Presence With Maplin Deal

Culture secretary, Tessa Jowell, has reaffirmed calls for a clear strategy for the digital switchover and has asked the country’s terrestrial broadcasters to draw up an appropriate timetable for the move to be made.The call came as Jowell told MPs that ‘switchover between 2006 and 2010 remains attainable’ and explained that round table talks between… Continue reading Jowell Calls For Switchover Date To Be Set

Capital radio today announced that further commercial success opportunities could be created by acquiring new radio licenses this year. Revenues at the group rose by 4% to £59 million for the first half of this year, citing ten months of consecutive growth, though group profit only inched up by £100,000 on last year to £12.1… Continue reading Modest Revenue Improvements For Capital

Scottish Radio Holdings (SRH), today announced that group revenue for the first half of this year has jumped by 10%, spurred on by strong press and radio performance throughout the period. Group turnover, for the period ending 31 March 2004, grew by 14% to £47.2 million, up from £41.5 million on the same period last… Continue reading Strong Radio And Press Revenue Spur On Profits At SRH

Radio group GWR was seen in focus yesterday, scoring a massive 8.95% rise to 246˝p. The company was bolstered by investors’ growing favour towards a merger with rival group Capital, which itself saw a rise of 1.63% ahead of interim results due to be published today.Earlier this year GWR quashed rumours of such a merger,… Continue reading Sharewatch: GWR Rises Amid Merger Hopes With Capital

Telecom operators are hoping that broadband will help them cash in on the new revenue streams being created by entertainment services, says IT research group, Analysys. One of the big attractions of rolling out broadband is to enter in the three main entertainment revenue sources; video on demand, audio and online games. However, Analysys said:… Continue reading Entertainment Unlikely To Be Profitable For Broadband Providers

News International’s recent decision to increase the cover price of its flagship Sunday tabloid, News of the World, means that readers now pay around 17% more for the title than they did five years ago.Last week the paper announced that it would raise its price by 5p to 75p in a move that brings it… Continue reading Price Rises For Sunday Tabloids As Circulations Dip

Capital Radio today announced that further commercial success opportunities could be created by acquiring new radio licences this year.Revenues at the group rose by 4% to £59 million for the first half of this year, citing ten months of consecutive growth, though group profit only inched up by £100,000 on last year to £12.1 million.Capital… Continue reading Modest Revenue Improvements For Capital Radio