Sales for the Lincolnshire Standard group of weekly newspapers have been moved from A Plus Media to Amra, after APM decided to move away from regional press and concentrate on consumer magazines. The Lincolnshire Standard’s titles include the Boston Standard and Gainsborough News.Amra: 071 820 1000CHESTERFIELD FREE LAUNCHNorth Derbyshire Newspapers has launched the Chesterfield Express,… Continue reading Lincolnshire Standard Moves To Amra
The Department of Trade and Industry is expected to announce its decision on the future of the Time Exchange and Laser before the end of the month. The Office of Fair Trading this week passed on to the DTI its recommendations on Granada’s sales operation.
HTV chairman, Louis Sherwood, has attacked the Government and current broadcasting legislation for allowing ITV to fall into the “hands of a few would-be global media barons.” Sherwood denounced the idea that ITV needs to comprise of one or two large companies in order to export programmes successfully around the world and called for a… Continue reading HTV Attacks Broadcast Laws
CIA has reorganised its main media division and created a new unit called CIA MediaLab to act as an ideas hotshop for clients. The unit will be run by Marco Rimini and Graeme Hutton. Anthony Jones, currently a media research manager at BSB Dorland, has been appointed to manage MediaLab on a day-to-day basis. Jones… Continue reading CIA Restructure
Bill Patterson is to become chief executive of Lansdown Conquest in mid July, moving from O&M Media, where he is managing director. Patterson will be responsible for building a third international network for the WPP Group, alongside O&M and JWT.
National Magazines has revealed that its new women’s magazine is to be called Zest and that the first issue will appear in October with a print run of 300,000. It will be a health and beauty title aimed at ABC1 20-40 year olds.The new magazine is being launched off the back of Cosmopolitan, which has… Continue reading Nat Mags Launch Details
CLT, the European media group, has made a recommended takeover bid for Chiltern Radio, valuing the company at £16.9m. CLT currently owns 80% of Atlantic 252 and was a former owner of the now deceased Radio Luxembourg. A takeover bid for Chiltern has been expected for some time, although Capital Radio or the Daily Mail… Continue reading CLT Bids For Chiltern
Michael Grade has proposed an alliance between Channel 4 and the BBC to strengthen their position against ITV and the satellite broadcasters. Addressing the Broadcasting Press Guild in London yesterday, Grade suggested that C4 and the BBC jointly make and produce programmes and buy in programmes from Hollywood. C4 has tried unsuccessfully to enter into… Continue reading C4 Proposes Link Up With BBC
Classic FM has released the findings of a radio recall study entitled ‘The Jigsaw Test,’ which indicates that commercials using humour provide a higher level of recall and that the position in a break has no bearing on recall. The study, the first since the Ironing Board Survey conducted in the 1980s, involved 296 respondents,… Continue reading Classic Recall Research
The Chiltern Radio group has achieved a pre-tax profit of £10,000, this compared to a loss of £0.33m last year. Turnover fell slightly from £2.75m to £2.73m .
