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AOL Time Warner has appointed Michael J. Kelly as its new president of global marketing solutions, with responsibility for developing and implementing cross-platform marketing solutions across its portfolio of products. Kelly will report to Dan Logan, chairman of AOL Time Warner’s media and communications group, who commented: “His experience and skills are ideally suited to… Continue reading AOL Appoints New Marketing Supremo

Northcliffe Newspapers, a subsidiary of Daily Mail and General Trust plc, has been fined £1.32 million by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) for predatory pricing among its Aberdeen Journals titles.John Vickers, director general of OFT, commented: “Aberdeen Journal’s, deliberately incurred losses in a persistent campaign to remove its only direct rival from the market.… Continue reading Northcliffe Newspapers Fined Over Predatory Pricing

Lastminute.com has reached a pivotal point in its history with the announcement that it will post its first pre-tax profits in the current quarter. Last month, the high profile online retailer revealed that pre-tax losses had narrowed to £3.9 million in the three months to June (see Lastminute Strives To Get In The Black). It… Continue reading Lastminute Issues Profits Promise

Speaking at the recent Royal Television Society conference in London, Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, Patricia Hewitt, responds to Lord Puttnam’s Joint Scrutiny Committee by outlining the Government’s aims for the pending Communications Bill.The aim of the [Communications] Bill is to make Britain the most dynamic and competitive, innovative and exciting broadcasting market… Continue reading Hewitt Outlines Aims For The Communications Bill

The prolonged saga of talks between News Corp and Vivendi over the future of Telepiù is set to reach a conclusion with Rupert Murdoch’s organisation prepared to acquire the Italian pay-TV operator for almost one billion euros. News Corp now seems likely to merge Telepiù with its own pay-TV operation Stream to create a single… Continue reading News Corp Closes In Deal To Take Telepiu

Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell today announced her decision to approve BBC3 with a series of stringent conditions.Announcing the decision after a series of delays and disagreements (see Government Says No To BBC3 Government Says No To BBC3Government Says No To BBC3The stringent guidelines come after Greg Dyke’s BBC has been criticised for concentrating too much… Continue reading Government Finally Gives BBC3 The Go Ahead

Advertising volumes at the Wall Street Journal declined by 14.8% during August, the newspaper’s parent company, Dow Jones, has announced. This puts Q3 figures down by 16% to date, according to analysts at Merrill Lynch. General advertising volumes at the paper were down by 22.4%, according to the broker, with declines in auto, healthcare and… Continue reading Revenues Remain Weak At Wall Street Journal

Radio stations have more listeners than they are credited for under the current radio audience measurement system, according to the results of research released by Kelvin MacKenzie’s Wireless Group.MacKenzie, who has been an outspoken critic of RAJAR’s diary system of audience measurement (see Commenting on the results of the research, he said: “For the first… Continue reading TWG Research Claims Radio Listening Is Under-Represented

Northcliffe Newspapers, a subsidiary of Daily Mail and General Trust, has been fined £1.3 million by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) for predatory pricing by its Aberdeen Journals division. John Vickers, director general of OFT, commented: “Aberdeen Journals deliberately incurred losses in a persistent campaign to remove its only direct rival from the market.… Continue reading Northcliffe Receives £1.3m Fine For Predatory Pricing

ISBA is supporting ITV and Channel 4 in their bid to prevent the BBC cutting the number of commercial channels they will be able to show on the corporation’s new digital terrestrial platform, due to launch this autumn (see ITV Digital Will Be Sold As ‘Going Concern’).The BBC has told the ITC that only four… Continue reading ISBA Backs Commercial Broadcasters In Freeview Struggle