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Following a full review of ABC’s certification rules, the Farnham Herald Series and the Richmond and Twickenham Times Series are no longer members of ABC.ABC: 01442 877407

GWR, the UK commercial radio group, has confirmed that it is pulling out of its £70m bid for Westcountry Television. Contrary to GWR Bids £70m For Westcountry , the board has reassessed its bid and has decided that GWR’s resources would be stretched too far.The decision to pull out could lower the price for other… Continue reading GWR Pulls Out Of Bid

The Times today increased its cover-price by 5p to 35p. This mirrors a move by the Daily Telegraph which this week increases by the same amount to 45p *Telegraph Increases Cover Price. The Monday edition of both papers however remains aloof from price increases: the Times is still selling at 10p and the Telegraph remains… Continue reading Times Joins Telegraph In Price Hike

Radio group GWR has made a bid of £70m for Westcountry, the privately-owned ITV company. While it is believed that Westcountry’s financial advisers would prefer the company to float on the Stock Market bids are currently being sought.Other interested parties are thought to be HTV and Carlton Communications, though their bids are reported to have… Continue reading GWR Bids £70m For Westcountry

Party Zone, MTV’s weekly dance show, will be sponsored by the Sony Corporation from this month. Running alongside the sponsorship deal is an advertising campaign targeting the youth audience with Sony’s MiniDisc system.Boris Kaz, senior vice president of advertising sales for MTV Europe said: “We’re delighted that Sony is joining forces with MTV. Sony’s campaign… Continue reading Sony In Party Zone Campaign

Unofficial Astra figures show that Granada Plus, the UK Gold-type channel launched by Granada Sky Broadcasting last week, was the most popular of the GSB channels.Overall, Granada Plus’s highest viewing share amongst all individuals was on the first day of transmission with 1.4%. This declined during the week, reaching a low of 0.4% on Friday… Continue reading Granada Plus Most Popular GSB Channel

Gilly Cubitt, former editor of Essentials magazine, has been appointed as the new editor of BBC Vegetarian Good Food Magazine. Cubitt, who takes up her new position from today, will hope to build on the current success of the magazine.NRS figures for Vegetarian Good Food Magazine for the period March-August 1996 showed an increase of… Continue reading Vegetarian Magazine Appoints New Editor

Today sees the launch of the Independent‘s new, revamped second section. The paper states that the aim of The Tabloid, as it is now called, is “to offer intellectual, emotional and visual pleasure; to follow the movement of cultural and social life in the way Independent readers would wish”.The first issue however offers basically the… Continue reading Independent Gets New Look Section Two

Maid, the on-line information provider, is in the process of finalising the development of a new financial news service that could rival Reuters and Bloomberg. According to rumours in this weekend’s press, the service will include the transmission of financial data to hand held devices using mobile phone technology.A spokesperson from Maid refused to comment… Continue reading Maid To Launch A New Financial News Service