Virgin dumps chart for older music

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United Kingdom's Virgin Radio is changing its format from top 40 to a more contemporary mix in an effort to reposition itself and appeal to the 30 to 40 year old listening audience. Research shows that 38% of the 30 to 40 years olds polled feel that enough radio stations play music from the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, and 65% of those polled preferred music from these decades. Heading up the marketing initiative is John Pearson who was appointed chief executive of radio holdings within a year of Scottish Media Group PLC acquiring Virgin's parent, Ginger Media Group.

Asset sales & divestitures, Acquisitions & mergers, Radio Broadcasting, Marketing procedures, Research Findings, Positioning, Statistical Data Included, Mergers, acquisitions and divestments, Marketing, Polling Data, Ginger Media Group, Scottish Media Group PLC, Pearson, John, Virgin Radio Ltd.

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ITN's headline act

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When news trainee Stewart Purvis started at ITN in 1972, it supplied news to ITV twice a day. Twenty-eight years later Purvis is the chief executive, and ITN supplies news to ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5 and owns ITN News Channel, Euronews, a web service, and three radio stations.

United States, Strategy & planning, Use of services, Television Broadcasting, France, New orders received, Television broadcasting stations, Telephone communications, exc. radio, Satellite Telecommunications, Executive changes & profiles, TV Networks, Satellite TV Communications, TV Stations, Management, Officials and employees, Television broadcasting industry, Contracts, Satellite communications services industry, Television networks, Independent Television Network Inc., Satellite television, Channel 5 Broadcasting Ltd., Independent Television (United Kingdom), Television stations, Channel 4, Purvis, Stewart, ITN News Channel, Euronews Services de Presse S.A.R.L.

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