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Iran and Turkey agree to closer media ties
From Media Network Weblog. Posted October 13 2008, 11.07am
Iran and Turkey have signed a memorandum of understanding to develop closer media ties. The agreement came during a visit to Ankara by Ezatollah Zarghami, the head of Iran’s national broadcaster, IRIB. The MOU covers a range of areas including the exchange of movies and serials, the development of technical, educational and international cooperation and [...] (more)

HSBC edges closer to Shanghai listing
From Daily Telegraph. Posted July 20 2008, 12.01am
HSBC has held talks with China's main sovereign investment fund over a potential investment in Europe's largest bank, The Sunday Telegraph has learned. (more)

Sky edges closer to 9m subscribers
From Digital Spy. Posted April 30 2008, 10.11am
Sky records 56,000 third quarter net customer additions, reaching a new total of 8.89m subscribers. (more)

Closer to classy
From Media Guardian. Posted February 4 2008, 12.01am
The News of the World has launched its highly anticipated new magazine, Fabulous. But does it really live up to its name? Alice Wignall reports (more)

Clear Channel closer to sale
From Financial Times. Posted January 25 2008, 2.00am
Clear Channel's nearly $20bn buy-out cleared a hurdle yesterday when the Federal Communications Commission granted its approval to the radio group's sale to two... (more)

Guardian to use Pluck technology for closer engagement with social networks and to power community features
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted January 7 2008, 12.00am
Texas-based Pluck SiteLife technology to power reader interaction and engagement with social networks for the redeveloping newspaper website    (more)

Sierra Leone: privatisation of SLBS getting closer
From Media Network Weblog. Posted November 26 2007, 12.13pm
Sierra Leone’s Information Minister, IB Kargbo, gave an update at his weekly press conference on the privatisation of the Sierra Leone Broadcasting Service (SLBS). The Minister reminded journalists that efforts to privatize SLBS started in 2003 when some of Sierra Leone’s development partners advised that SLBS should be privatized. The Information Minister insisted, “but a lot of [...] (more)

BBC staff edge closer to strike over job cuts
From Media Guardian. Posted November 20 2007, 5.44pm
BBC staff moved a step closer to strike action today after the first in a series of meetings between unions and management ended in stalemate. By Owen Gibson (more)

BBC Resources sale closer
From Rapid TV News. Posted November 4 2007, 10.23pm
In what can be seen as a precursor to the sale of BBC Resources the group's Post Production division is launching a new consultancy service for independent and commercial producers. (more)

Emap names deputy editor for Closer
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted October 15 2007, 12.00am
Promotion for Sophie Barton at Closer magazine    (more)

Brightcove launches new service to bring broadcast-quality internet TV closer
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted October 9 2007, 12.00am
Brightcove Show could accelerate move to longer form video from its content publishers    (more)

JACK fm gets closer to launch
From Radio Today. Posted September 19 2007, 9.39am
JACK fm will launch in the UK next month on 106.8 and on DAB next year, with an official start date to be confirmed. In the meantime, the Oxford-based station has appointed First Radio Sales as their national sales house. (more)

Closer gets new editor
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted July 12 2007, 3.20pm
Emap appoints acting editor Lisa Burrow to the fulltime role   (more)

Closer brand turns into radio
From Radio Today. Posted July 8 2007, 11.08am
Emap is to turn another magazine in to a radio station thanks to the awarding of the new national DAB digital radio multiplex to 4 Digital Group this week. Closer Radio joins other Emap magazines such as Smash Hits, Q, Heat and Kerrang! (more)

Emap will Launch Closer Radio on DAB
From Merry Media. Posted July 6 2007, 3.07pm
Emap will be launching Closer Radio which will be available on the new UK digital multiplex which Ofcom awarded to 4 Digital Group today. The 'Closer' magazine is a popular celebrity weekly magazine in the UK with supporting websites.. (more)

Closer launch editor Jane Johnson to be NoW deputy editor
From Media Guardian. Posted June 13 2007, 1.00am
10.45am update: Jane Johnson, the launch editor of Emap's Closer magazine, is the new deputy editor of the News of the World. By Stephen Brook (more)

Murdoch edges closer to WSJ deal
From Press Gazette. Posted June 5 2007, 12.00am
Rupert Murdoch appears to be at least one step nearer in his bid to buy the Wall Street Journal, America’s number one business daily. (more)

Closer checks on CBS web content after discovery of plagiarism
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted April 12 2007, 3.02pm
News anchor Katie Couric's voice over for a web video broadcast found to be 'similar' to Wall Street Journal articleemail this article   digg this   del.icio.us (more)

Picture Editors' Awards a step closer to being saved
From Hold the Front Page. Posted March 27 2007, 12.00am
Five new sponsors pledge to support industry event - but organisers say more help is needed (more)

Samurai victory draws closer in Echo ban bid
From Hold the Front Page. Posted March 9 2007, 12.00am
Home Office says sword sales could be outlawed by end of the year (more)

Launch of RTÉ Television in Britain draws closer
From Media Network Weblog. Posted February 14 2007, 4.42pm
The start of TV broadcasts in Britain by Irish public broadcaster RTÉ is moving closer after it was revealed that detailed work on the new service is under way. Senior RTÉ figures have confirmed to the Irish Post that a team is already working on a proposed schedule of programmes to be beamed into Britain. And the last barrier [...] (more)

BBC gets closer to Salford
From Radio Today. Posted December 19 2006, 6.42am
Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell has told MPs the BBC should carry out its planned relocation of various departments, including Radio 5 Live, to Salford Quays. Jowell wants to make sure the move will happen regardless of the licence fee settlement, which is due in the new year. (more)

CNN forges closer ties with audience through event marketing
From Brand Republic. Posted October 6 2006, 11.10am
NEW YORK - CNN has formed an event division in an attempt to forge closer brand ties with its audience and expand its offering to advertisers. (more)

Return of Big L on 1395 kHz appears to be getting closer
From Media Network Weblog. Posted September 19 2006, 1.38pm
The forum of UK-based commercial broadcaster Big L contains some new pictures of the Trintelhaven transmitter site taken yesterday by Dutch forum member Peter Vrakking. He was the person who took the photo that we published in July showing an empty site. Now, several large crates have arrived, apparently containing the transmitter and generator needed for Big [...] (more)

Emap's Closer and Heat hog readership increases
From Brand Republic. Posted September 18 2006, 8.09am
LONDON - Emap has underscored its growing success in women's weeklies with big increases in Closer and Heat's readerships over the space of a year, according to the latest National Readership Survey figures. (more)

Queen bee Johnson's strategy to bring Closer to the top
From Press Gazette. Posted September 14 2006, 12.00am
Ask Jane Johnson if there are secrets of the stars so heinous, so saucy, so jawdroppingly libellous, that she cannot print them, and she says: “We always try to get the story and put it out there.” Darn. What I really meant is, go on Jane, tell us some really juicy gossip. (more)

Mag ABCs: Closer leads way in celeb gossip weeklies
From Press Gazette. Posted August 17 2006, 12.42pm
The appetite for measuring celebrity waist sizes showed no signs of abating as four of the top five celeb gossip weeklies showed continued growth in the ABCs year on year. (more)

Murdoch closer to deal with Malone
From The Times. Posted June 29 2006, 12.00am
RUPERT MURDOCH said yesterday that he intends to sell some of News Corporation's local US television stations within the next year and may use the sale to buy back an 18 per cent stake in the company owned by John Malone, the billionaire... (more)

Free London evening paper comes a step closer as TfL starts tender process
From Brand Republic. Posted April 10 2006, 1.04pm
LONDON - The launch of a free evening newspaper in London moved a step closer today as Transport for London kicked started the process with a tender, which could see the launch of a new title distributed on the Underground competing with the Evening Standard. (more)

Talks move Africa closer to 2nd pay-TV service
From Media Network Weblog. Posted April 3 2006, 4.57pm
Botswana regulators have indicated they may be ready to grant a licence for a new African pay-TV network, increasing the likelihood that South Africa's DStv could face a continent-wide rival, officials said today. Black Entertainment Satellite Television (BEStv), to be based in Gaborone and owned by Johannesburg-based Black Earth Communications, said it was optimistic it could strike a licence (more)