Patrick Smith
Aug 12, 2009 5:17 AM
—Sky Digital Media: It carries out online sales duties for 133 sports websites but BSkyB’s digital sales division is to stop representing 25 of them as part of a refocusing of its portfolio. It could be the sites, thought to include smaller, amateur sports clubs, teams and gyms, have severed…
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Patrick Smith
Jun 10, 2009 9:50 AM
A huge slump in profits at Express Newspapers: the Daily Express and Daily Star publisher, owned by pornography tycoon Richard Desmond, saw its pre-tax profits nose-dive from £54.9 million in 2007 to £4.8 million last year, leading to an operating loss of £2.6 million for 2008, according to documents newly…
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Patrick Smith
May 6, 2009 5:13 PM
—BBC News cuts: More retrenchment at the BBC, which is cutting almost 90 News staff jobs by April next year in a bid to save £155 million. The BBC’s multimedia newsroom will see 18 and a half jobs go; the UK newsroom will suffer 49 redundancies; the programmes department will…
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