LONDON – ISBA has urged advertisers to stand up to publishers of broadsheet newspapers over the issue of production costs incurred in new tabloid editions.
LONDON – IPC Media aims to boost the circulations of its subscription magazines, including monthly glossies Marie Claire, In Style and lads magazine Loaded, with a radio campaign featuring 'Cutting It' star Lucy Gaskell.
LONDON - Grey Worldwide London is to take a significant stake in Naked’s new venture Naked Ambition, which is to become the media communication firm's second string agency.
LONDON - The film distributor United International Pictures has shifted its £28m media planning and buying account out of Mediaedge:cia and into ZenithOptimedia.
LONDON – Hachette Filipacchi UK is to take its teen title, ElleGirl, monthly in February and put it in direct competition with rivals including the National Magazine Company's CosmoGirl!.
LONDON – Graham Duff, the new managing director of ITV Sales, has shortlisted three candidates for the number two job of sales director at the merged sales house, including Carlton sales managing director Steve Platt.
LONDON – The Daily Mail & General Trust has called in merchant bank Merrill Lynch to advice it on any possible takeover of Lord Conrad Black's Daily Telegraph Group.
Future Publishing's Total Film magazine has increased its pagination as part of a major revamp.
PROJECT TYSON: Mark Dinning, former features editor at Empire, is to take up the same role at Emap's new weekly, codenamed Project Tyson. The editor will be Paul Merrill, who joins from IPC's Chat in January 2004. Associate editor will be Ben Knowles, Andrew Pettie is to be TV editor and Matt Mason...
LBC: Paul Ross is to replace Matthew Wright as host of London radio station LBC 97.3's Saturday morning show. Yana Groves, who is Wright's producer, will remain in charge of the slot, despite the change of presenter from January 2004. The station, owned by Chrysalis Radio, was relaunched earlier this...
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