LONDON - News Corp Europe and Asia chief executive James Murdoch has introduced a raft of top level changes at UK subsidiary News International to reflect merged commercial operations between Times Media and News Group Newspapers.
LONDON - News International has announced that it is to appoint a chief marketing officer across its group amid a number of other management reshuffles, as reported in Marketing last week.
LONDON - The BBC has publicly laid out its support for allocating assistance to its commercial rivals, in an attempt to fend off the threat to the licence fee.
23 Jun 2008
| by Jacquie Bowser
LONDON - The Independent on Sunday has slashed its cover price from £1.80 to £1 again.
LONDON - The National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain (NYO) is mounting a direct and digital campaign to raise funds on its 60th anniversary.
LONDON - Independent.co.uk, which posted its first ABCe figure of 6.5 million unique users in May, has revealed the number of unique UK users accessing the site has risen by 86% since December.
23 Jun 2008
| by Kate Langtry
LONDON - Virgin Media has released a cinema ad featuring animated versions of Simply Red singer Mick Hucknall and Sir Richard Branson, the first in a series of celebrity ads designed to promote its video-on-demand offering.
LONDON - UK brewer Greene King is launching a fresh website for its Old Speckled Hen ale brand.
LONDON - The Digital Radio Working Group, DRWG, has failed to set a switch-off date for the analogue signal in its interim report, released today, but has urged larger FM stations to begin to migrate to DAB with total migration completed by 2020.
23 Jun 2008
| by Ann-Marie Corvin
LONDON - AOL UK is set to roll out a mobile content store across its mobile and web-based portals.