Newsquest has announced details of its flotation plan which will see around £100m of extra funds being raised. The float, due to take place on October 23, would see the regional publisher valued at £540m, with shares being offered for between 250p and 290p.Newsquest is now thought to be on the look-out for acquisitions in… Continue reading Newsquest Raises £100m And Looks To Expand
Sunday Business advertisement director, Peter Gould, has announced that Vicki Beazley has joined the paper as advertisement manager. Beazley moves from the Evening Standard‘s ES Magazine and Hot Tickets where she held the same role.The new Sunday Business commercial team has been built from scratch following European Press Holdings’ take-over of the title on 26… Continue reading New Advertisement Manager Joins Sunday Business
Chief executive of ITV Richard Eyre, and director of programmes David Liddiment, have promised a new programming and scheduling strategy in an attempt to halt declining viewing figures.The announcement was made at the ITV 98 presentation for advertisers and agencies where Ricahrd Eyre asked for a hundred days to implement the strategy. A progress report… Continue reading ITV Heads Promise New Schedule
Cordiant today announced the demerger plans which will see it split into two separately listed companies – Saatchi & Saatchi plc and Cordiant Communications Group plc. The new shares will appear on the stock market on 15 December while Bob Seelert will become chief executive of the Saatchi & Saatchi group and Michael Bungey will… Continue reading Cordiant Confirms Demerger Plans
In order to fully implement digital terrestrial broadcasting (DTT) some television sets will have to be retuned to prevent clashes between the analogue and digital signals.British Digital Broadcasting, who were granted the contract to broadcast DTT from the ITC in June, will have to retune what they describe as a very small number of homes,… Continue reading BDB Will Have To Retune Television Sets
Following the closure of Capital Radio’s sales house, Media Sales & Marketing (subscribers see Capital Restructures Sales), GWR has decided to establish its own national sales team to service its local radio brands. This sales operation is to co-locate with Classic FM in London in order to keep the sales team in close proximity to… Continue reading GWR Announces New Sales Operation
The Haymarket title Marketing is to launch a revamped Website on 1 October. Marketing Online (http://www.marketing.haynet.com) will feature more functionality including a new interactive recruitment section.The relaunched Marketing Website was constructed and is hosted by MediaTel Interactive.Haymarket: 0171 413 4136 MediaTel Interactive: 0171 439 7575
Accurate cinema admissions data by contractor share, which will enable the UK’s two cinema sales houses to calculate their correct market share, is to become available to the cinema industry.This is the result of an agreement between the Cinema Advertising Association and the Cinema Exhibitors Association which means that CEA members are recommended to release… Continue reading New Cinema Share Data To Be Released
Charterhouse Communications has released a new title this month called Investor. The magazine is targeted at the top end of the personal investment market and will focus on equities and other ‘sophisticated’ investment products. There is also an online version of the whole publication which appears as part of the Infotrade/Mitsubishi financial information service (http://www.infotrade.co.uk).The… Continue reading Charterhouse Launch New Magazine And Website
