Monday December NRS data is out and will be available in MediaTel’s Press Planner.Tuesday BSkyB interim results are released. Slowing growth and increased investments are expected to cause a 5% drop in profits to £126 million.Wednesday Granada will be holding its annual general meeting.Friday RAJAR quarter 4 results are released at noon and will be… Continue reading The Week Ahead
Xfm sales director Martin Ball will be leaving the station at the end of February to take up the position of sales and marketing director at Solent Radio. The move is due to the fact that Ball lives in the New Forest and found the daily commute to London “exhausting”.IPC has also announced a raft… Continue reading Appointment Briefs
30/01/98McCann-Erickson has won this month’s Aerial Awards. The ad, for Optrex, is entitled “Moonlight”, and was written by Rob Brown and Jason Gill.The judges were Ajab Singh and Julian Dyer of Saatchi & Saatchi. Singh says:”It’s a simple idea, with simple production values. The voiceover draws you in and delivers a very funny and unexpected… Continue reading McCann-Erickson Wins Aerial Award
A series of industry round-ups for 1997 are now available to subscribers in the “Research” features list of Newsline.A TV Data Round-Up for 1997 is also available in the TV features list.
CompuServe, the UK internet service provider, will be moving its ad sales business in-house. This will mean the disbandment of the joint sales venture it ran with Ziff Davis.Both parties decided they wanted to concentrate on different areas of online sales, with CompuServe looking for expansion in the high-end consumer markets while Ziff wants to… Continue reading CompuServe Moves Sales In-House
BBC Magazines will be launching a new technology title called Tomorrow’s World on 5 March.The title, based on the BBC programme of the same name, aims to achieve a circulation of around 80,000 and will be aimed at attracting older ABC1 men.BBC Magazines: 0181 576 3000
Andrew Marr has left the Independent as editor and Rosie Boycott, currently editor of the Independent On Sunday is expected to replace him. It is possible that she will retain her position on the Sunday title and become editor-in-chief of both papers.Mirror Group: 0171 293 3000
British Digital Broadcasting has appointed Stephen Grabiner as its chief executive. Grabiner was previously an executive director at United News & Media. He will join BDB in January next year.BDB: 0171 663 6363
Capital Radio has received the green light from the Radio Authority to extend its Capital Gold 1548 AM service across all its other AM stations in Hampshire, Sussex, Kent and Birmingham.The new network, to be called Capital Gold, will roll out to Kent next month and will then be followed by the others in early… Continue reading Capital Gold To Extend Reach
Capital Radio has said that it will challenge the Monopolies and Mergers Commission regarding its decision on Capital’s proposed takeover bid of Virgin (subscribers see MMC Report Could Curtail Capital’s Expansion Plans).While a judicial review is not expected to occur, Capital will be commissioning independent research from Case Associates to show that a Capital/Virgin merger… Continue reading Capital To Challenge MMC Decision
