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GMG offloads regional operations in £44.8m deal with Trinity Mirror

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:10:00 GMT

LONDON - Trinity Mirror has agreed to buy GMG Regional Media, which includes the Manchester Evening News, from Guardian Media Group for £44.8 million.

News International ad highlights the power of print

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:25:00 GMT

LONDON - News International, home to The Times and The Sun newspapers, has launched its own advertising campaign to highlight the effectiveness of print for retailers.

AOL UK boosts sales team

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:20:00 GMT

LONDON - AOL has made a number of internal promotions in its senior UK sales team as it looks to build closer relationships with agencies and clients.

BBC and Arqiva given approval to launch two digital TV channels

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:44:00 GMT

Broadcasting regulator Ofcom has given its approval for the BBC and communications infrastructure operator Arqiva to offer two new national terrestrial digital TV channels.

Maxus appoints MCHI's Stephanie Marks to new client services role

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:41:00 GMT

LONDON - Maxus has hired MCHI's media account director Stephanie Marks for the newly created role of client services director.

Paper Round (8 Feb) - a look at the day's newspapers

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:00:00 GMT

LONDON - University funding, Toyota's ongoing crisis and the fallout from the MPs expenses scandal are the stories making headlines today, while The Sun devotes its picture lead to the Haiti charity single.

UK managing director of .Fox Networks departs

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:10:00 GMT

LONDON - Federica Aperio, UK managing director of .Fox Networks, the UK online sales and ad network of Fox International Channels (FIC), has left the company after two years.

R&B star Akon joins Global's 95.8 Capital FM

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:55:00 GMT

LONDON - Senegalese-American R&B star Akon is to present a regular Saturday evening show on Global Radio's 95.8 Capital FM from this weekend.

NatMag to launch its own classified ad network

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 10:45:00 GMT

LONDON - NatMag is bringing its search and contextual ad sales in-house and launching its own classified ad network.

Former Publicis Asia boss Guillaume Lévy-Lambert joins Miroma board

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:23:00 GMT

LONDON - Miroma, the media barter company, has appointed former Publicis regional head Guillaume Lévy-Lambert to its board of directors.

James Power joins JCDecaux

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:24:00 GMT

LONDON - Outdoor media owner JCDecaux has appointed former Forrest sales director James Power to the position of senior business development manager at its phone box media division StreetTalk.

Sporting events like the Super Bowl buck the trend of fragmentation

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:03:00 GMT

LONDON - Major live sporting events, such as this Sunday's NFL Super Bowl in which the Indianapolis Colts play the New Orleans Saints in the US, are reaching larger global television audiences than ever before according to research from Mediabrands' Initiative.

Jon Slatkin leaves Titan Outdoor

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:31:00 GMT

LONDON - Jon Slatkin, former chief executive of Titan Outdoor, has left JCDecaux, the company which bought Titan's assets when it went into administration last month.

Out and About - the best parties of the week in pictures

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:57:00 GMT

Kantar Media's launch party, the Financial Times and CNBC's "nightcap" event at Davos, and the Independent's fancy dress fundraiser for Haiti

MediaCom's Richard Jacobs to join GMG Radio

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 11:00:00 GMT

LONDON - Richard Jacobs, head of radio at WPP's MediaCom, is to join GMG Radio in the new role of head of commercial strategy on 16 February.

Paper Round (5 Feb) - a morning look at the day's newspapers

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 10:17:00 GMT

LONDON - Scandal is all over the papers this morning with MPs being forced to pay back £1m of swindled expenses and The Conservative's shadow home secretary, Chris Grayling, being accused of using figures "likely to mislead the public".

Hulu is best for long-form online video ads, says Vivaki

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 08:56:00 GMT

LONDON - Hulu, the US video-on-demand service, has the best ad-delivery system for long form video, according to a study by Publicis Groupe's trading arm Vivaki.

Rajars: Radio industry mulls mixed results

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:00:00 GMT

The latest Rajar results proved a mixed bag for most radio operators in the UK. Quarterly gains were often offset by annual falls, or vice versa, while overall listening via digital platforms has dropped since the previous report.

TfL delays awarding its London Underground newspaper contract

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:40:00 GMT

LONDON -Transport for London (TfL) has yet to award its once highly coveted seven-year contract to distribute a morning free newspaper throughout the London Underground.

Paper Round (4 Feb) - a morning look at the day's newspapers

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 10:40:00 GMT

LONDON - MPs prepare for the final verdict over expenses, Toyota gets bad press and a £65m stick man walks all over the qualities while Tiffany & Co books a pre-Valentines day ad on the cover of the Daily Telegraph.

Rajars: Global's Heart rebrand fails to boost listenership

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 09:30:00 GMT

LONDON - Global Radio's Heart radio network has steadily lost listeners since it completed a nationwide rebrand which added a further nine local stations in June 2009.