The second-largest record company in the world is now all Sony’s. As announced in August, Bertelsmann’s 50 percent stake in *Sony* BMG has been acquired by Sony Corp (NYSE: SNE). The former joint venture is now being renamed Sony Music Entertainment – a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Corp. of…

New Virgin Radio owner Absolute Radio will use Bauer Performance digital director Chris Lawson to fill the hole created by the loss of Andy Gumbridge from its equivalent position last week, MediaWeek says. Gumbridge left in a directorial restructure (see our earlier post), with the digital team being merged with…

—Virgin Radio: Virgin Radio, soon to be renamed after SMG sold it to Times of India group’s Absolute Radio, is losing its digital media director Andy Gumbridge as part of a top-level restructure, MediaWeek says, as the radio industry copes with precipitous decline. Instead, the Gumbridge’s digital department is being…

—Style.com UK: CondeNet International will launch its US pure-play brands Style.com and Men’ Style.com for the UK after a test in Italy, NMA says. The publisher already operates mags like Glamour and GQ but says it’s not possible to publish parenting or recipe stories in its existing online portfolio. So…

Catching up on news from the Bank Holiday weekend and the end of last week… —MySpace: The social net has unveiled a UK version of its Scene Junkie entertainment channel - “the place where we show off the most interesting people on MySpace – from the glitziest film stars to…

What’s in a name? Not a chief exec, that’s for sure. - Virgin Media: Virgin Media (Nasdaq:VMED) has appointed head hunters to find a replacement for Steve Burch, who resigned as CEO suddenly last month citing family reasons, FT.com reports: “Mr Burch came from Comcast, and the choice of Spencer…