Radio & Telly (Free subscription) | 17/09/2008
The UK commercial radio industry's set for something of a shake-up. Global Radio's the largest player in British commercial radio after acquiring GCap Media and Chrysalis Radio earlier this year. Over the next 12 to 18 months, they're set to re-brand 29 of their local radio stations to either Heart or Galaxy, according to Radio Today . Names such as Invicta, Fox, 2 Ten FM, Chiltern, Essex FM, GWR,...
Express & Star (Free subscription) | 15/09/2008
Global Radio, Britain’s biggest commercial radio operator, will this week start the sale of stations in the West Midlands. They include BRMB and Heart, which it may continue to run as a franchise. Global offered to sell the stations after it bought GCap Media, the owner of Beacon Radio and Classic FM. It must offload stations to [...]
Simon Willison's Weblog (Free subscription) | 03/09/2008
The team at Global Radio (formerly GCap Media ) is the largest group of Django developers I’ve personally worked with, consisting of 14 developers split into two scrum teams, all contributing to the same overall codebase. Working with that many developers makes smart tools and processes essential, and in some cases we’ve had to develop our own. Today, we’re releasing one of them as an open source...
Reckon viewpoint: Franck (Free subscription) | 27/08/2008
OFT grounds (96 pages, PDF) for clearing the merger of Global Radio and GCap Media subject to divestments in the Midlands. In London, the merger brings under common ownership the Heart, Galaxy, LBC, Capital Radio and Classic FM stations. In the OFT's view, the merger combines essentially complementary businesses in terms of the demographics that they offer to advertisers, and: 30 ... there is compelling...
phpied.com (Free subscription) | 13/08/2008
Stuart Colville has put up a proposal for the South By Southwest Interactive 2009 conference, or SXSWi 2009 for short. This is a panel with me and Nicole from Yahoo!'s performance team and Stuart and Ed (ex-UK-Yahoo!s, currently in GCAP Media). In Stuart's own words: ... a panel on practical performance techniques featuring Stoyan Stefanov and [...]
Express & Star (Free subscription) | 09/08/2008
Wolverhampton’s Beacon Radio was today facing an uncertain future after it was revealed that it is up for sale. The Tettenhall Road station is on the market following Global Radio’s £375 million takeover of GCap Media. The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) raised competition concerns about the merger, which saw Global become the country’s largest radio group. BRMB, [...]
Times Online (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
Trade deficit Britain’s global trade deficit rose in May to £4.2 billion, from £4.1 billion in April, although the deficit on trade in goods was stable at £7.5 billion. The underlying deficit, excluding oil and erratic items, was also unchanged at £7 billion. The data showed a further surge in Britain’s import bills, with the prices of imports rising by 1.9 per cent in May alone, and by 14.5 per cent...
FT.com (Free subscription) | 27/06/2008
GCap Media, the UK's largest commercial radio group, was hit with a £1.1m fine yesterday, by far the largest in radio history, following an investigation into a...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 26/06/2008
GCap Media has been fined a record £1.11m by communications regulator Ofcom for running a radio competition that listeners had no chance of winning. By John Plunkett
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 26/06/2008
Today's £1.11m sanction against GCap Media brings to 13 the number of fines of £50,000 or more that have been handed out by regulators
the INQUIRER (Free subscription) | 26/06/2008
Egan Orion the Inquirer , Thursday 26 June 2008. 14:03:00 Listeners had "no chance" of winning competitions UK BROADCASTING authority OFCOM has fined Gcap Media's One Network of 30 local radio stations £1,110,000 ($2,187,322) for unfair practices in their Secret Sound listener competition. In total, it's the largest fine amount ever levied by OFCOM for breaches of the Broadcasting Code....
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 26/06/2008
GCap Media has been fined a record £1.11million by Ofcom for running a competition that listeners had no chance of winning. By John Plunkett
PR-Inside.com Entertainment News (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
LATEST: BLACK SABBATH guitarist TONY IOMMI and JETHRO TULL frontman IAN ANDERSON have helped to save British radio station Planet Rock from closure. The digital station faced being shut down last month (May08) unless parent company Gcap media found a suitable buyer. Queen guitarist Brian May had expressed interest in purchasing the beleaguered station, but it was [...]
The Independent (Free subscription) | 23/05/2008
The chief executive of GCap Media, owner of Capital Radio and Classic FM, is set to leave after only five months in the job when the £371m takeover by Global Radio completes next month.
Times Online (Free subscription) | 22/05/2008
Fru Hazlitt, the chief executive of GCap Media, will leave her post when Global Radio completes its £375 million takeover of Britain's largest commercial radio group on June 6. Richard Eyre, GCap's chairman, will also step down.
