TalkSport is launching a new advertising platform through a partnership with AdsWizz that will allow the station to tailor targeted advertisising to its international listeners, in what it claims to be a technological first.
LONDON - UBC Media Group, the company behind a range of businesses serving the radio sector, reported an increase in revenues to £1.9m in the six months to the end of September, up 9% year on year.
LONDON - Media regulator Ofcom is freezing staff pay and senior executives' bonuses this year, citing "pressure on public finances".
LONDON - The Advertising Standards Authority has promoted manager Shahriar Coupal to secretary to the Committee of Advertising Practice (CAP) and the Broadcast Committee of Advertising Practice (BCAP), the bodies responsible for writing and enforcing the UK Advertising Standards Codes.
17 Mar 2009
| by Staff
GCap, Emap Radio and Virgin Radio have now been in the hands of private owners for some time. But, with radio ad spend set to fall rapidly in Q1, has private ownership worked out for radio?
LONDON - TalkSport, the national speech radio station, is rolling out an ad campaign across 650 of London's black taxis.
LONDON - UTV is putting its Edinburgh radio station, talk107, up for sale as part of a cost-cutting drive.
LONDON - Trinity Mirror-owned Scottish titles the Daily Record and the Sunday Mail have signed a year-long deal to sponsor the breakfast show on GMG-owned Smooth Radio 105.2 in Glasgow.
LONDON - Commercial radio lobby RadioCentre has named Dianne Thompson, chief executive of National Lottery operator Camelot, as its new non-executive chairman.
LONDON - The Digital Radio Development Bureau is to become the central consumer marketing point for digital radio - taking on the role previously handled by individual radio multiplex operators.