Regional newspaper and magazine publisher, Regional Independent Media (RIM), has announced that it is to axe around 250 jobs in a rationalisation and development programme. The job losses will be spread across the Group’s ten operating companies in the North of England. The greatest losses will be at RIM’s primary production centres in Leeds and… Continue reading Regional Independent To Cut Jobs Under Development Plans
Loot, one of the UK’s top classified publications, has appointed the Mirror Group as its nation-wide distributor. The title is to grow from being a local specialist paper to a national publication.Loot has 23 editions which cover London, the home counties, Manchester, Liverpool and the East Midlands.Wally Cowley, circulation sales director of Mirror Group, said:… Continue reading Loot To Go National
MoreTrans, the transit advertising division of More Group, has won the five-year contract for all interior and exterior advertising at Birmingham International Airport (BIA).The deal is estimated to be worth over £7 million for the five years and will take effect from February next year. The airport currently holds around 95 advertising sites, but it… Continue reading More Group Wins Airport Advertising Contract
Another programme produced by Carlton Television has been found by the Independent Television Commission (ITC) to be in breach of the Programme Code. Omagh: Thursday Night Special was broadcast on ITV just five days after the devastating bomb in the Northern Ireland town.This prompted a number of complaints to both the ITC and the programme’s… Continue reading Second Carlton Programme Breaches ITC Code
Contrary to most current economic forecasts, Zenith Media has predicted that worldwide advertising expenditure growth is to accelerate over the next three years. There is no recession in prospect, the media analysis company says.The global adspend growth of 3.8% for 1998 is the bottom of the market, according to the Zenith report. Growth is predicted… Continue reading Global Advertising Spend To Grow, Predicts Zenith
A series of Government advertisements aimed at encouraging businesses to prepare for the impact of the Euro received several complaints from viewers. The complaints fell into two categories; the first was that people objected to the bullying nature of the boss featured in the advert, and the other was that the advert was nothing more… Continue reading Government Euro Ad Under Fire
A management re-shuffle at Associated Newspapers is to take effect from 1 January 1999.Kevin Beatty will move from being managing director of The Mail On Sunday to MD of The Evening Standard. Mike Ironside will become MD of The Mail On Sunday and Simon Barnes will be promoted to MD of Associated Newspapers new Group… Continue reading Management Re-Shuffle At Associated Newspapers
News International’s (NI) Times and Sunday Times online publications are being expanded following recent increases in traffic to the websites. NI’s Internet Publishing division is injecting money to the sites in order to increase bandwidth and server capacity. This should mean faster access speeds and more services for the websites’ readers.In its latest audit from… Continue reading The Times Online Invests In Faster Service
Leo Burnett is investing in interactive consultancy company Hard Reality. The investment will help Hard Reality to continue the development of its virtual business structure called the Reality Network MUTV has announced that it is to appoint Peter Brookes to the position of Managing Director. Mr Brookes, who joins the company from Birmingham Live, has… Continue reading Newsline Brief
A Carlton television documentary, The Connection, broadcast in October 1996, has been found to be fake after an inquiry into the programme. The Guardian was the first body to make allegations of forgery concerning the documentary, and these were proved right by the enquiry carried out by Carlton executives. The Panel ruled that “the programme… Continue reading Carlton Documentary Found To Be Fake
