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After much speculation over its future, Attic Futura is set to be bought by the French media group, Hachette Filipacchi for around £40 million. The UK publisher was put up for sale last year by its Australian owners, PMP. However, the German company, H Bauer soon pulled out of the bidding and a proposed £55… Continue reading Attic Futura Set To Go Continental

WPP’s Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide division has acquired 70% of Era Public Relations Company, one of Taiwan’s leading technology-specialist public relations firms, the group announced this morning. Era provides communications services to blue-chip clients including Hewlett Packard, Dell Computer and Oracle and reported revenues of US$1.5 million for the year ended 31 December 2001 and… Continue reading WPP Acquisition Builds Asia-Pacific PR Network

One of the best media share performers yesterday was radio group GWR which saw a 4.7% increase in share price to £2.45. Another good performer was Cable & Wireless, which, along with other telecoms shares, rose 7˝p to £1.79ź.Conversely, advertising giant WPP lost 27p or 4.86% to £5.28 following a downgrade. Negative movement was also… Continue reading Sharewatch

The advertising market is improving more quickly than was predicted just a few months ago, Doug Flynn, CEO of Aegis, has told the Wall Street Journal in interview. The paper reports that Aegis is now expecting US adspend to rise 1.5% in 2002, up from a previous forecast of -0.2%. Whilst Asia is also predicted… Continue reading Aegis Chief Sees Improvement In Media Spending

Capital Radio Group is to be the first group in the UK to use the Powergold music scheduling system, replacing its current DOS based selector software.Capital Radio Group programme director Keith Pringle, said: “Capital Radio was the first UK company to innovate music radio by using computer aided music scheduling. Now fifteen years later we’re… Continue reading Capital Adopts New Scheduling Technology

There will be approximately 27 million ‘e-workers’ across Europe by the end of the decade, according to the UK Institute for Employment Studies (IES). Currently, more than 9 million people, or 6% of the entire European workforce, have a job which involves an element of IT. By 2010, this will have risen to a sixth… Continue reading Number Of Euro ‘E-workers’ To Treble By 2010

Recent weeks have seen much discussion of how the Communications Bill will affect TV- the licence fee, regulation and the digital switch over. However, the Bill will also have huge implications for radio, as Gareth Jones, assistant editor of MediaTel’s NewsLine, outlines here.Consolidation was the hot topic at last week’s Radio Festival in Cambridge, which… Continue reading NewsLine Column: Radio Looks At A Consolidated Future

The market’s fear of the internet, prevalent since the collapse of the dotcom ‘bubble’, may now be showing signs of waning, as the number of company closures begins to fall. The fall-out of the internet and technology markets over the last couple of years has led to the demise of a large number of companies,… Continue reading Insight Analysis: Is Investor Confidence In The Web Returning?

After much speculation over its future, Attic Futura is set to be bought by the French media group, Hachette Filipacchi for around £40 million.The UK publisher was put up for sale last year by its Australian owners, PMP. However, the German company, H Bauer soon pulled out of the bidding and a proposed £55 million… Continue reading Attic Futura Set To Go Continental

By 2006, Germany will have overtaken the UK to become Europe’s most profitable digital pay-TV market, according to business information company, Datamonitor. The UK market was rated the most valuable in Europe last year, bringing in $3.5 billion in revenues. By contrast, the preponderance of free to air channels and licence free public funded channels… Continue reading Germany Set To Take Digital Crown