Global Radio has offered to sell three stations, Real Radio XS in Manchester and Scotland, and Gold in the East Midlands, in response to the Competition Commission's provisional findings on its merger with GMG Radio.
BSkyB is set to become the UK's second largest broadband provider following a £200m deal with Telefónica to acquired its O2 and BE consumer broadband and fixed-line telephony business.
Bauer Media has bought the digital radio station Planet Rock, in a deal valued by insiders in the region of £1.3m.
ISBA, the advertisers' trade body, has said a "behavioural merger remedy might be appropriate" in the merger of Global Radio and GMG Radio, in its submission to the Competition Commission.
Absolute Radio's owner, Bennett, Coleman & Co, is understood to have recommenced talks with potential buyers, after calling off a sale last year.
22 Nov 2012
| by Ben Bold
Steve Auckland, the soon-to-be chief executive of Local World, the new regional newspaper group formed from the sale of Daily Mail & General Trust's (DMGT's) local newspapers, said he wants to create a regional digital offering as compelling as Mail Online.
The Competition Commission (CC) has outlined the issues its investigation into Global Radio's purchase of GMG Radio will scrutinise, including the impact of the merger on radio ad sales as well as cross-industry initiatives such as Rajar and Newslink.
UK outdoor media owner Eye has appointed Matthew Wilkinson to the role of business leader, mobile, with immediate effect, as its new Australian owner seeks to sell the UK business on.
Magazine publisher Bauer Media has taken a minority stake in StorkUp, a social commerce community for parents to recommend, find and buy baby and child-related products that is yet to launch.
Real and Smooth Limited has offered to provide more regional and local news in north and mid Wales to prevent its merger with Global Radio from being referred to the Competition Commission on plurality grounds.