The European Commission has approved under the EU Merger Regulation the proposed acquisition of British and Irish pay TV operator BSkyB by News Corporation, a global media and communications company headquartered in the US.
A full merger between Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation and satellite broadcaster BSkyB will not weaken competition in the UK, the European Commission has ruled today.
Assuming control of a business is never easy, so imagine taking the reins from the founder and chairman of the UK's largest private magazine business, a former deputy prime minister, in the grip of the worst advertising recession in living memory. And he's your dad.
29 Oct 2010
| by Ben Bold and Katherine Levy
Mindshare is moving from its conventional grey London office building on the Strand into the seventh and eighth floors of a garishly coloured, ecologically advanced, mixed-use development designed by world-renowned architect Lorenzo Piano.
01 Oct 2010
| by Staff
BBN Network, the ad network for the business-to-business community, has launched in the UK with six UK publishers this week.
ITV has sold its 50% stake in US cinema ad company Screenvision, to private media equity firm Shamrock Capital Growth Fund 11, for $80m, in a bid to reduce its debts.
13 Sep 2010
| by Staff
NEW YORK - The Hollywood Reporter, part of E5 Global Media, is to cease daily publication and become a weekly magazine as disappearing advertisers and loss of status in an industry that is dominated by entertainment blogs takes its toll.
Pearson, owner of the Financial Times, has reported a strong first half for 2010, with and a return to advertising growth for its business newspaper.
01 Jun 2010
| by Ben Bold
Regional publisher Johnston Press is kicking off a £2m, four-month ad campaign to extend the reach of its Scotsman.com/jobs recruitment site.
27 May 2010
| by Mark Banham
LONDON - The Daily Mail and General Trust, publisher of the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday has posted a 20% boost in its pre-tax profits in the six months to 4 April, despite revenue falling 10%.