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Trinity Mirror has today announced the acquisition of Southnews for £284.6m. The combination of the two regional newspaper groups will increase Trinity’s presence in the South East of England, a lucrative area for advertisers. Under the deal Southnews shareholders will each receive £12.00 per share in cash, a premium of 57% on yesterdayÂ’s closing price.… Continue reading Trinity Mirror Buys Southnews For £284m

Hello! for teenager’s or OK! for kids. Can you imagine that? The thought of a “little brother”-style celebrity lifestyle magazine for the 12-19 year old market left me with a bad taste in my mouth reminiscent of my student days when a good night out was a half-cooked chicken kebab after 10 pints of lager.A… Continue reading First Issue Review: Star

David Elstein, chief executive at Channel 5, has left the channel and been replaced by programming director, Dawn Airey. The channel’s director of sales, Nick Milligan, is to become deputy chief executive.Elstein, who became chief executive seven months before Channel 5 began transmitting in March 1997, is exercising his contractual share options as Channel 5… Continue reading David Elstein Quits Channel 5

United News & Media has announced two senior appointments. Nick Read is to become chief operating officer of Xilerate B2B, the group’s business-to-business publishing, exhibition and online division. His current position is chief financial officer of Miller Freeman Worldwide. Andrew Nugee is to be promoted to CEO of Xilerate from his role as chief operating… Continue reading Appointments Brief

Programmes The return of ITV’s cash cow, Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, has helped ITV find some good cheer out of a poor month. With several top programmes underperforming on previous years’ totals, the big money quiz show gave the channel a dedicated appointment-to-view audience. For this latest extended run Millionaire averaged audiences of… Continue reading TV Viewing Round Up – September 2000

Virgin Radio has announced the signing of its first ten advertisers on its new online radio service. The group was one of the first to offer separate advertising specifically targeting online listeners last month (see Virgin Launches Separate Branding For Online Radio Stream).Direct Line, monster.co.uk, thesun.co.uk and supergoals.co.uk are amongst the founder advertisers to the… Continue reading Virgin Radio Nets First Online Advertisers

Programmes The return of ITV’s cash cow, Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, has helped ITV find some good cheer out of a poor month. With several top programmes underperforming on previous years’ totals.September’s top programme unsurprisingly was Coronation Street, although its popularity has slipped possibly due to the continued fragmentation of television audiences.The other… Continue reading TV Viewing Round Up – September 2000

RevenueTerrestrial television including GMTV saw a 2% fall in total revenue, year on year, during September, recording an overall figure of £257.5m. According to agency estimates, ITV’s revenue dropped by 5.3% during last month, while Channel 5 increased 9.4%.Channel 4 was up 6.3% while GMTV fell 6.5% in a yearly analysis. Total satellite continues its… Continue reading TV Market Round Up – September 2000

The Newspaper Society has formed a working group of experts from the industry to find a more accurate and comprehensive way of measuring the total audience of regional newspaper titles. The group will reassess the systems currently on the market and, as more titles move onto the web, look at ways of fusing print and… Continue reading Regional Press Group Seeks More Accurate Audience Measurement System

RevenueTerrestrial television including GMTV saw a 2% fall in total revenue, year on year, during September, recording an overall figure of £257.5m. According to agency estimates, ITV’s revenue dropped by 5.3% to £174.9m during last month, while Channel 5 increased 9.4% to reach £18.4m.Channel 4 was up 6.3% while GMTV fell 6.5% in a yearly… Continue reading TV Market Round Up – September 2000