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Deborah Bonello, assistant editor at Newsline for the last 12 months, is leaving the company this afternoon. Deborah has been top fun to work with and we all wish her the very best in her new job.Cheers and good luck, Dee….

US celebrity magazine, Globe, is to launch in the UK next Friday 23 June with an initial print run of 200,000. The weekly UK version, to be called The American Globe, will cover celebrity stories, interviews, gossip, scandals and crime stories.Advertising for the UK version of the magazine is being sold through the Publishing Constancy;… Continue reading US Celebrity Mag Launches In UK

Emap Metro has made three redundancies from the editorial team of its weekly entertainment title Heat. Martin Asteon, its music editor, is to go, as is Lisa Andrews – one of its news reporters. Phil Brooke from the subbing team is also to leave the magazine.Heat currently has a circulation of 65,000, but the publisher… Continue reading Staff Feel The Heat At Emap Metro

Carlton Online is losing its managing director, Carol Dukes, who is leaving the group to establish a new internet business of her own.Dukes, who has been with Carlton Online for 15 months, commented: “The start up phase of Carlton Online is complete. We’ve built a business with a strong team and award-winning websites. I now… Continue reading Carlton Online MD Departs To Start Internet Group

The Broadcasting Standards Commission’s (BSC) annual report, out this week, reveals that the number of complaints for the year ended March 1999 increased by 37%. Almost a quarter of these complaints were concerned with the portrayal of sex on television, a subject which an increasing number of people complained about last year.The first episode of… Continue reading Watershed To Remain At 9pm Despite Increased Complaints About Sex

News International (NI) chairman Les Hinton has appointed Alasdair MacLeod as the managing director of News International Digital Publishing (NIDP), the company’s internet and electronic media division. MacLeod is currently the general manager of Times Newspapers and takes up his new role next week.MacLeod’s responsibilities at NIDP will include the CurrantBun.com ISP, launched in March… Continue reading Times Newspapers Manager To Head NI Digital Publishing

Beck’s has resumed its sponsorship of drama output on Channel 4 (see Channel 4 And Beck’s Sign £2m Drama Sponsorship Deal) following a withdrawal from the £2 million deal in March this year. Beck’s pulled out of the deal whilst C4 was showing the hard-hitting gay drama series, Queer As Folk.The brewer’s decision to pull… Continue reading Becks Resumes Drama Sponsorship With Channel 4

Cable & Wireless dropped 34p to 799˝p following reports that the UK candidates interested in buying its One2One mobile phone operator had pulled out. Cable & Wireless Communications, on the other hand, enjoyed a 39p rise to 696˝p after rumours that it was to announce a merger deal with either NTL or Telewest continued. Telewest… Continue reading Sharewatch

The Radio Authority has received one application for the local digital multiplex service licence for the South Yorkshire area, which was advertised in March (see Newsline). Emap Digital Radio was the only group to submit a bid by the closing date yesterday.The broadcaster has proposed to run a total of eight services on a round-the-clock… Continue reading RA Receives One Application For South Yorkshire Digital Licence

Digital terrestrial television broadcaster, ONdigital, last night lost its chief executive, Stephen Grabiner, who has left the company to join Rupert Murdoch’s internet venture, eVentures.More details will follow shortly on Newsline.