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BSkyB and Carphone Warehouse are competing head to head in the race to buy AOL’s UK arm, with the ISP likely to fetch well below the £1 billion price tag previously suggested.According to a report in the Times, the Internet Service Provider is being fought over by the two companies after Orange pulled out of… Continue reading BSkyB And Carphone Warehouse In Race For AOL UK

All print and online news desks at the Financial Times will be fully integrated as of October 1, according to the paper’s editor, Lionel Barber.Speaking to the Guardian, Barber said the reorganisation into a multimedia newsroom, which resulted in staff job cuts at the title (see FT Job Cuts Aid Multi-Media PlansFT Job Cuts Aid… Continue reading Financial Times Integration Plans Are Go

Yahoo! is said to be in talks to buy MySpace and Bebo rival Facebook, for a figure thought to be close to $1 billion (£526 million).Any move on the social networking site, which is the seventh most visited site in the US, could anger Microsoft. Last month, the software giant signed an online advertising deal… Continue reading Yahoo! Could Buy Social Networking Site

IPC Country & Leisure Media (CALM) has announced the promotion of Adrian Booker to associate publisher of its sports titles.Booker joined IPC Media in 2000 as the first intake of the graduate training scheme run by the UK’s magazine distribution company, Marketforce.He worked as a circulation executive within CALM for two years before moving to… Continue reading IPC Promotes Booker

Bravo has announced its first major marketing campaign in five years and the launch of a new channel, Bravo 2.As well as a new channel, Bravo will also be launching a new on and off-air identity. Bravo says that the new look will comprise a more classic on-air and off-air logo and includes a new… Continue reading Bravo Launches Major Marketing Campaign

RAJAR will assess the data from its forthcoming trial with BARB on a continuous basis to obtain unprecedented insight into a number of performance measures, according to Paul Kennedy, research director at RAJAR.Speaking at the recent Media Research Group evening meeting, Kennedy said: “The panel allows us to investigate trends of radio behaviour that have… Continue reading BARB And RAJAR Trial To Yield Unprecedented Audience Insight

Ofcom’s current chief operating officer, Ed Richards, is said to be the favourite to take the role of chief executive of the communications regulatory body, succeeding Stephen Carter.Six candidates have been shortlisted for the post, with two other internal candidates, executives Kip Meek and Sean Williams, challenging Richards for the £400,000 a year job.Meek, who… Continue reading Frontrunner For Ofcom Top Job Is Named

Virgin Radio and TalkSport could have their AM radio licences removed by Ofcom by 2012, so that the regulator can use the spectrum for new digital radio stations.Three new national stations and a range of local stations could be made out of the spectrum used by the two national AM services, according to Ofcom’s director… Continue reading Virgin Radio And TalkSport Could Lose AM Licences

BT has announced that Future Plus, the customer-publishing agency of Future Publishing, will be supplying editorial content for BT Vision, its TV-via-broadband service.The deal will see Future supply BT Vision’s editorial requirements for the TV service and the BT Vision online store. Future will provide news, independent reviews of entertainment and programme listings for the… Continue reading Future Signs BT Vision Deal

Virgin Radio is to launch a huge multi-platform station promotion, incorporating a series of TV, cinema and outdoor ads, as well as an online viral marketing campaign.The campaign, which has been dubbed ‘Big Star’, will launch on the Christian O’Connell Breakfast Show and run across all Virgin Radio shows throughout the schedule.30-second TV ads will… Continue reading Virgin Radio To Launch Massive Multi-Platform Promo