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Northern Echo blames 'economic downturn' for job cuts and edition changes
From Press Gazette. Posted June 25 2008, 12.00am
Newsquest said today there would be no compulsory redundancies at the Northern Echo and confirmed it was cutting its editions from five to two. (more)

Jobs and editions axed at Northern Echo
From Hold the Front Page. Posted June 18 2008, 3.40pm
Journalists' fears over future of major regional title (more)

Jobs and editions to go at Northern Echo
From Hold the Front Page. Posted June 18 2008, 2.30pm
Journalists' fears over future of major regional title (more)

Northern Echo cuts editions and staff
From Press Gazette. Posted June 18 2008, 12.00am
The Northern Echo is to cut 18 staff as part of plans to cut the paper down to a single edition, the NUJ claims. (more)

Prime minister's support for Spitfire monument plan delights the Echo
From Hold the Front Page. Posted June 10 2008, 8.40am
Gordon Brown is backing a regional newspaper's campaign to create a landmark monument (more)

Bristol Evening Post's Blackadder is made editor of the Gloucestershire Echo
From Press Gazette. Posted June 10 2008, 12.00am
Kevan Blackadder, assistant editor of the Bristol Evening Post, will be the new editor of Gloucestershire Echo following the departure of Anita Syvret. (more)

Dorset Echo rapped over cystic fibrosis story
From Media Guardian. Posted May 30 2008, 2.50pm
The Dorset Echo has been censured by the press watchdog for running a story about a man with cystic fibrosis against his wishes. By Stephen Brook (more)

Echo rapped for revealing that man needed new heart and lungs
From Hold the Front Page. Posted May 30 2008, 1.20pm
Dorset Echo 'did not remedy man's concerns' over accuracy and privacy breaches (more)

Dorset Echo rapped by PCC over "new heart and lungs" story
From Press Gazette. Posted May 30 2008, 12.00am
The Dorset Echo has been censured by the Press Complaints Commission over a story headlined “Mum’s plea over organ donations” which was inaccurate and intrusive. (more)

Long-serving Echo reporter dies aged 61
From Hold the Front Page. Posted May 14 2008, 6.10am
Brian Redhead spent many years covering his hometown in North Yorkshire (more)

Editor Anita Syvret leaves the Gloucestershire Echo after 18 years
From Press Gazette. Posted May 13 2008, 12.00am
Pioneering editor leaves but says local papers have a bright future (more)

Online coverage for Post and Echo newspapers in 'election 2.0'
From Hold the Front Page. Posted May 1 2008, 10.10am
Multimedia reporters to blog, report, map, SMS and video breaking news (more)

'No regrets' for Echo editor after 18 years with paper
From Hold the Front Page. Posted May 1 2008, 8.00am
Anita Syvret reveals why now is the time to make the break from local newspapers (more)

Regional press editor to leave Echo hotseat
From Hold the Front Page. Posted April 29 2008, 12.11pm
Media consultancy move for long-serving news chief (more)

Anita Syvret steps down after 18yrs at Gloucestershire Echo
From Press Gazette. Posted April 29 2008, 12.00am
One of the few women to edit a major UK regional newspaper, Anita Syvret, is leaving the Gloucestershire Echo to set up a media consultancy business. (more)

Anita Syvret quits after 18 years at Gloucestershire Echo
From Press Gazette. Posted April 29 2008, 12.00am
One of the few women to edit a major UK regional newspaper, Anita Syvret, is leaving the Gloucestershire Echo to set up a media consultancy business. (more)

Loughborough Echo goes back to Gothic roots
From Press Gazette. Posted April 24 2008, 12.00am
The Loughborough Echo has undergone a major redesign this week and revived the 117-year-old title’s original masthead. (more)

Echo reporter plans to ride his way to the end of the land
From Hold the Front Page. Posted April 23 2008, 7.40am
Newsman joins old school mates and teachers for second crack at 300-mile charity bike ride (more)

Liverpool Echo picks up three regional media awards
From Press Gazette. Posted April 17 2008, 12.00am
Mary Murtagh of the Liverpool Echo was crowned news reporter of the year in the first regional O2 Media Awards for newspapers, broadcasters and online journalists across Cheshire and Merseyside. (more)

Echo reporter's advice helps family overturn court anonymity order on rapist
From Hold the Front Page. Posted April 15 2008, 8.40am
Family wanted people to know what paedophile had done (more)

Mail and Echo sweep the board at new press awards
From Hold the Front Page. Posted April 10 2008, 10.10am
Johnston Press celebrates the best in news, features and photography at it north-east titles (more)

Donovan hopeful for 'Echo Beach' return
From Digital Spy. Posted April 8 2008, 3.54pm
Jason Donovan is hopeful that ITV soap Echo Beach will return. (more)

Trio of journalism awards for Echo reporter
From Hold the Front Page. Posted April 8 2008, 6.00am
Jon Austin scoops his third of the year at Newsquest's company celebration (more)

Record traffic for Sunderland Echo website
From Hold the Front Page. Posted March 19 2008, 2.50pm
Wide appeal is the secret of success (more)

Former Echo editor launches university's latest media training course
From Hold the Front Page. Posted March 7 2008, 8.45am
The course details practical methods of reaching an audience through effective media management (more)

Tiscali to move Homechoicers 'this month'
From Digital Spy. Posted March 5 2008, 11.23am
Homechoice subscribers will be offered a Tiscali TV package this month. (more)

'Wallpaper' to return, 'Echo' waits to hear
From Digital Spy. Posted February 25 2008, 2.50pm
ITV confirms a second run of Moving Wallpaper - with Echo Beach to return in a "different format". (more)

Mike gets the nod at Echo
From Press Gazette. Posted February 24 2008, 12.00am
Trinity Mirror Regionals’ head of multimedia, and acting editor at the South Wales Echo, Mike Hill, has been appointed editor of the title. (more)

'Echo Beach' sinks to new low
From Digital Spy. Posted February 19 2008, 9.29am
Echo Beach sunk to a new audience low on Friday and left ITV1 trailing its rivals, figures show. (more)

Echo Beach flounders
From Media Guardian. Posted February 18 2008, 12.37pm
ITV1's struggling soap Echo Beach dipped to a new ratings low when it pulled in just 1.9 million viewers at 9.30pm. By Leigh Holmwood (more)

South Wales Echo names its editor
From Hold the Front Page. Posted February 14 2008, 1.00pm
Acting editor Mike Hill confirmed in role (more)

Trinity names Mike Hill as new editor of South Wales Echo
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted February 14 2008, 12.00am
Former head of multimedia for Trinity Mirror Regionals has been appointed Mike Hill has been appointed editor of the South Wales Echo    (more)

Trinity Mirror Regionals multimedia chief named editor of South Wales Echo
From Press Gazette. Posted February 14 2008, 12.00am
In an appointment that reflects newsroom integration efforts, Trinity Mirror Regionals' head of multimedia Mike Hill has been appointed editor of the South Wales Echo (more)

'Echo Beach' fails to resonate
From Digital Spy. Posted February 11 2008, 3.07pm
Echo Beach made ITV1 the least watched terrestrial channel in its Friday night slot, figures show. (more)

Toffees boss Moyes cleared of FA charge thanks to Echo evidence
From Hold the Front Page. Posted February 7 2008, 12.55am
Football Association throw out charges after press quotes mix up (more)

Former Corrie actor guests in 'Echo Beach'
From Digital Spy. Posted February 2 2008, 12.02am
Chris Bisson makes a one-episode appearance in ITV's unique soap concept. (more)

Manchester United PR boss echoes Blair's "feral beasts" speech
From Press Gazette. Posted January 30 2008, 12.00am
The changes in political journalism that Tony Blair deplored in his “feral beasts” speech last year also apply in sports journalism according Manchester United’s director of communications. (more)

First run sells out for Echo celebration of the local coastline
From Hold the Front Page. Posted January 28 2008, 12.00am
Book from the Bournemouth Daily Echo and Dorset Echo proved so popular it sold out in days (more)

Former Echo journalist witness to civil unrest in Kenya
From Hold the Front Page. Posted January 11 2008, 12.00am
Journalist who now works in politics tells of braving daily threat of violence (more)

Martine had doubts over 'Echo Beach' part
From Digital Spy. Posted January 5 2008, 11.47am
Martine McCutcheon admits that she had doubts about her role in Echo Beach. (more)

ITV ?Moving Wallpaper, Echo Beach? poster
From UTalk Marketing. Posted January 3 2008, 1.06pm
New work from BBH (more)

Echo and Gazette set record straight on explicit text message story
From Hold the Front Page. Posted November 21 2007, 12.00am
Former police officer complained about coverage - plus more resolved complaints from the PCC (more)

Echo probe reveals scores of weapons confiscated from inmates
From Hold the Front Page. Posted November 14 2007, 12.00am
Plus: Archant's geo-mapping, a Forester appeal - and more regional press news in brief (more)

Northern Echo scoops top national award
From Hold the Front Page. Posted November 12 2007, 12.00am
Switch to compact helps Echo to be named Regional Newspaper of the Year (more)

Page turned for Les Echos
From Financial Times. Posted November 6 2007, 10.39pm
French financial newspaper Les Echos is off the streets again as journalists strike in protest at its sale to luxury goods group LVMH (more)

Les Echos journalists vote to cancel edition of paper
From Financial Times. Posted November 6 2007, 6.59am
Journalists at Les Echos, the Financial Times' French sister title, last night voted not to publish a newspaper on Tuesday after Pearson, its British owner, finalised a deal to sell the publication and related businesses to LVMH, the French luxury goods group, for €240m in cash (more)

Les Echos sale sparks action
From Financial Times. Posted November 6 2007, 2.00am
Journalists at Les Echos, the Financial Times' French sister title, last night voted not to publish a newspaper this morning after Pearson, its British owner,... (more)

FT publisher agrees to sell French business daily Les Echos
From Press Gazette. Posted November 5 2007, 12.00am
Financial Times publisher Pearson has agreed to sell its French financial newspaper group, Les Echos, to LVMH for €240m (£170m). (more)

FT publisher agrees to sell Les Echos business titles
From Press Gazette. Posted November 5 2007, 12.00am
Financial Times publisher Pearson has agreed to sell its French financial newspaper group, Les Echos, to LVMH for €240m (£170m). (more)

'My life as a journalist and clown', by former Echo writer
From Hold the Front Page. Posted October 30 2007, 12.00am
Roll up, roll up - former features man takes time to look back on an unusual career (more)

Editor named for Northampton Chronicle & Echo's vacant seat
From Hold the Front Page. Posted October 29 2007, 12.00am
Weeklies' group editor appointed to Johnston Press title (more)

Echo accused of hypocrisy over 'sex trade' ads
From Hold the Front Page. Posted October 26 2007, 12.00am
Politician's "double standards" speech calls for press advertising boycott as industry talks are planned (more)

Echo editor quits post
From Hold the Front Page. Posted October 18 2007, 12.00am
Richard Williams to leave Cardiff job after almost three years (more)

South Wales Echo editor resigns
From Press Gazette. Posted October 17 2007, 12.00am
South Wales Echo editor Richard Williams has left the paper. (more)

Echo arts editor back at work after probe
From Hold the Front Page. Posted October 12 2007, 12.00am
Issue resolved as all parties agree to "draw a line under it" (more)

Brown backs Liverpool Echo’s anti-crime campaign
From Press Gazette. Posted October 12 2007, 12.00am
The Liverpool Echo has claimed the backing of Prime Minister Gordon Brown in its campaign to eradicate gun crime on the streets of Liverpool. (more)

Robber hands himself in after spotting his pic in the Echo
From Hold the Front Page. Posted October 10 2007, 12.00am
Plus: New jobs service from MEN - and more regional press news in brief (more)

Liverpool Echo arts correspondent keeps job after McGovern comments
From Press Gazette. Posted October 10 2007, 12.00am
The Liverpool Echo’s arts correspondent of 30 years Joe Riley has kept his job despite being publically criticised for his behaviour on radio by film maker Jimmy McGovern. (more)

Could the BBC’s problems echo NHK’s?
From Rapid TV News. Posted October 9 2007, 9.35pm
Japan’s public broadcaster saw its public support drop after a series of scandals. Is the same happening at the BBC? (more)

Echo's longest-serving journalist off work after McGovern comments
From Hold the Front Page. Posted October 2 2007, 12.00am
News publisher considers playwright's remarks made after theatre press preview (more)

Mail and Echo publisher to be renamed Media Wales
From Hold the Front Page. Posted September 28 2007, 12.00am
Cardiff-based company says change will better reflect the breadth of what it does (more)

Echo sports extra celebrates centenary
From Hold the Front Page. Posted September 28 2007, 12.00am
Title is among the oldest in the country - but do you know of one older? (more)

Liverpool Echo launches new fight on gun crime
From Hold the Front Page. Posted September 28 2007, 12.00am
150,000 purple ribbons to be distributed in campaign backed by family of Rhys Jones (more)

EchoStar mulls asset spin off
From Financial Times. Posted September 25 2007, 1.57pm
EchoStar, the second biggest US satellite television provider, said that it may spin off all of its technology and infrastructure assets from its core pay-TV business (more)

Proposal angers Les Echos staff
From Financial Times. Posted September 21 2007, 3.00am
Journalists at Les Echos have reacted angrily to news that the French business newspaper could be "parked" with an investment bank while a planned sale to LVMH clears... (more)

Echo opens its doors as part of city heritage drive
From Hold the Front Page. Posted September 18 2007, 12.00am
Plus: Kent Messenger Group plans record-breaking bid - and more news in brief (more)

EchoStar’s 39th HD Channel goes live
From Rapid TV News. Posted September 6 2007, 10.35pm
US pay-TV operator EchoStar has launched its 39th HDTV service, the History Channel HD. (more)

Reunion planned for Ex-Express & Echo staff
From Hold the Front Page. Posted August 31 2007, 12.00am
Editorial staff who worked at paper between 1965 and 1995 will be among those to attend event (more)

Anfield's Everton tribute was sparked by idea from Echo journalist
From Hold the Front Page. Posted August 30 2007, 12.00am
Feature writer and Kop season ticket holder first floated the idea on his blog and fans responded (more)

Daily Echo number two gets top job at Swindon
From Press Gazette. Posted August 17 2007, 12.00am
Southern Daily Echo deputy editor Dave King has been announced as the new editor of the Swindon Advertiser. (more)

Les Echos bidder 'not newspaper professional', say journalists
From Media Guardian. Posted July 26 2007, 1.00am
4.30pm: Journalists at Les Echos have appealed to potential buyer Bernard Arnault to quit talks over the deal. By Gwladys Fouch�. (more)

Echo delivered by kayak to flood-hit readers
From Hold the Front Page. Posted July 26 2007, 12.00am
Unusual tactic by distribution department adds 450 to the day's sale (more)

Northern Echo compact switch
From Press Gazette. Posted July 25 2007, 12.00am
The Northern Echo claims to have halted its sales slide since going tabloid in February. (more)

Northern Echo sales turnaround after compact switch
From Press Gazette. Posted July 25 2007, 12.00am
The Northern Echo claims to have halted its sales slide since going tabloid in February. (more)

Les Echos staff get three-year job security
From Media Guardian. Posted July 23 2007, 1.00am
1.30pm: Pearson has agreed measures to protect staff at French financial newspaper Les Echos in the event it is sold. By Chris Tryhorn. (more)

Echo give-away to tackle plastic bags mound
From Hold the Front Page. Posted July 19 2007, 12.00am
5,000 reusable bags on offer in paper's most ambitious campaign to date (more)

'World scoop' for Northern Echo as Blair gives only interview on last day in office
From Hold the Front Page. Posted June 28 2007, 12.00am
Editor Peter Barron and political editor Chris Lloyd join their local MP on the train home (more)

Northern Echo scoops exclusive Blair interview
From Press Gazette. Posted June 28 2007, 12.00am
The Northern Echo scooped a world exclusive interview with Tony Blair on his final day as Prime Minister. (more)

Post and Echo unveil new-look sites in first stage of Trinity Mirror overhaul
From Hold the Front Page. Posted June 27 2007, 12.00am
Upgrade allows users to drive the news agenda and follows extensive user-testing (more)

Chronicle & Echo's Edwards moves to Peterborough
From Hold the Front Page. Posted June 25 2007, 12.00am
Editor is due to begin new role today after more than ten years at Northamptonshire title (more)

LVMH to buy Pearson's Les Echos
From The Times. Posted June 21 2007, 3.22pm
LVMH, the French luxury goods conglomerate, has confirmed it is exclusive talks with Pearson, owner of Britain's Financial Times, to add Les Echos to its small stable of business titles. (more)

Paedophile jailed with help from the Echo
From Hold the Front Page. Posted June 18 2007, 12.00am
Plus: Top crime writing award nomination for former regionals man - and more news in brief (more)

Work begins on new headquarters for Western Mail & Echo
From Hold the Front Page. Posted June 14 2007, 12.00am
�17m office will be home to more than 500 staff from next summer (more)

Editor chairs Echo 'Question Time' debate
From Hold the Front Page. Posted June 14 2007, 12.00am
Event aimed to give local people a voice on radical proposals (more)

Lincolnshire Echo sports title is latest to face axe
From Press Gazette. Posted June 8 2007, 12.00am
The Lincolnshire Echo has closed its Saturday Sports Echo after 76 years of publication and is launching a website in its place. (more)

Sponsorship deal sees city venue become Liverpool Echo Arena
From Hold the Front Page. Posted June 4 2007, 12.00am
Five-year deal to sponsor city's new waterfront venue (more)

Global campaign group backs Echo environmental campaign
From Hold the Front Page. Posted May 23 2007, 12.00am
Friends of the Earth adds its weight to Don't Dump on Basildon fight (more)

Echo's Michelle Fiddler leads the field at regional press awards
From Hold the Front Page. Posted May 18 2007, 12.00am
Click to find all the winners from the Merseyside Media Network event (more)

Post and Echo launch digital replicas
From Hold the Front Page. Posted May 10 2007, 12.00am
Trinity Mirror papers team up with Red Hot Media for new subscription service (more)

Echo editor awarded humanitarian reporting prize
From Hold the Front Page. Posted May 1 2007, 12.00am
Contribution from journalists praised as Rotary picks a winner (more)

Toddler badly burnt in accident prompts Echo to call for law change
From Hold the Front Page. Posted April 26 2007, 12.00am
Paper teams up with victim's family for campaign fighting for pyjamas to be covered by safety rules (more)

Echo aiming to help readers Make A Fresh Start
From Hold the Front Page. Posted April 20 2007, 12.00am
Campaign counts down to the introduction of smoking ban (more)

Colleagues remember Post and Echo editor who had 'essential qualities'
From Hold the Front Page. Posted April 18 2007, 12.00am
John Pugh has died after suffering cancer, aged 79 (more)

Death of former Evening Telegraph and Post & Echo journalist
From Hold the Front Page. Posted March 21 2007, 12.00am
Tributes are paid to "brilliant character" who entertained with tales of his newspaper days (more)

Good first week for Northern Echo's new compact
From Hold the Front Page. Posted March 19 2007, 12.00am
Week-on-week sales up after conversion from broadsheet (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)

Play penned by Echo sub is broadcast on Radio 4
From Hold the Front Page. Posted March 8 2007, 12.00am
BBC performance was the culmination of a three-year project (more)

Echo reporter named outstanding trainee
From Hold the Front Page. Posted March 7 2007, 12.00am
Twenty-two-year-old is to receive the James Arlott Memorial Award (more)

Tiscali TV replaces Homechoice
From Digital Spy. Posted March 1 2007, 11.43am
Homechoice rebrands to Tiscali TV ahead of a national rollout of the ISP's IPTV service. (more)

Echo marks compact conversion with souvenir edition
From Hold the Front Page. Posted March 1 2007, 12.00am
Famous front pages recreated in 32-page supplement as 137 years of broadsheet come to an end (more)

Echo helps to save music festival
From Hold the Front Page. Posted February 20 2007, 12.00am
Promise of "top-level sponsorship" and change of venue cuts cost of event (more)

Northern Echo ditches broadsheet and turns compact
From Press Gazette. Posted February 16 2007, 1.04pm
The Northern Echo is to switch to a tabloid format on 26 February after 137 years as a broadsheet. (more)

Express & Echo launches web TV with factory fire exclusive
From Press Gazette. Posted February 16 2007, 1.00pm
The Express & Echo in Exeter launched its new TV studio on the day a factory blaze broke out near the paper's offices. (more)

Echo spreads love in the city with its own online version of cult dating show
From Hold the Front Page. Posted February 13 2007, 12.00am
Reporters play match-makers in new video feature aimed at attracting younger audience (more)

Northern Echo to go compact six days a week
From Hold the Front Page. Posted February 12 2007, 12.00am
Broadsheet version scrapped after success of Saturday tabloid trial (more)

City fire prompts late edition plus online and video news from Echo
From Hold the Front Page. Posted February 12 2007, 12.00am
Blaze broke out on industrial estate which is home to daily newspaper (more)

Northern Echo: Readers should write to their MPs
From Press Gazette. Posted January 18 2007, 1.37pm
Editor of the Northern Echo Peter Barron is passionate about avoiding limits on the FoI Act and is actively encouraging readers to speak out. (more)

Liverpool Echo cracks underworld dog-dealing code
From Press Gazette. Posted November 8 2006, 10.38am
The Liverpool Echo claims to have cracked a code used by underworld dog dealers to sell banned breeds like pit bulls in local newspapers. (more)

Echo journalists to strike next week
From Press Gazette. Posted October 17 2006, 4.32pm
NUJ members at the Southern Daily Echo in Southampton are to walk out on strike next Wednesday and Thursday. (more)

Liverpool Echo topples MEN
From Media Guardian. Posted August 31 2006, 1.00am
Regional newspaper ABCs: The Liverpool Echo has overtaken the Manchester Evening News. By Stephen Brook. (more)

Soviet troops plundered Czechoslovak Radio building in August 1968
From Media Network Weblog. Posted August 22 2006, 10.48am
Yesterday, 21 August, was the 38th anniversary of the invasion of Czechoslovakia by Soviet troops. For the first time, a Czech daily newspaper, Mlada fronta Dnes, has revealed some details of what happened inside the Czechoslovak Radio building that was occupied by the troops. Citing documents stored in Prague’s National Archives which have never been published, the paper [...] (more)

Homechoice moves into Tiscali UK in �60m deal
From Brand Republic. Posted August 14 2006, 9.08am
LONDON - Tiscali UK has acquired Homechoice for around �60m in a deal it says will allow it to launch a 'triple-play' internet TV, broadband and fixed-line phone offer by the end of the year. (more)

Tiscali mulls Homechoice merger
From Digital Spy. Posted August 10 2006, 11.47am
Internet service provider Tiscali is considering merging with DSL TV operator Homechoice. (more)

Child killer turned in by prisoners reading Echo
From Press Gazette. Posted August 9 2006, 11.00pm
The detective superintendent who spent three years hunting the killer of seven-year-old Toni-Ann Byfield told the Liverpool Echo it "cracked the case" through its coverage and appeals for information. (more)

Ken Dodd guest edits Liverpool Echo
From Press Gazette. Posted July 20 2006, 12.00am
“Absolute bloody mayhem” was how Liverpool Echo deputy editor Andy Edwards described the week that seven comedians were invited to guest edit the paper. (more)

Mob drama echoes real life
From Media Guardian. Posted July 10 2006, 8.41am
For residents of New England, where the television series Brotherhood is set, the story will be uncomfortably familiar. By Suzanne Goldenberg in Washington. (more)

Echo drops editions in bid to boost sales
From Press Gazette. Posted July 6 2006, 12.00am
The Liverpool Echo is the latest regional evening newspaper to drop editions in what it says is a bid to improve sales. (more)

Blair provides podcast for Northern Echo
From Press Gazette. Posted July 3 2006, 3.45pm
Tony Blair has recorded a podcast for his local paper The Northern Echo in what is believed to be a first for a Prime Minister. (more)

Morning sales switch at Essex Evening Echo
From Press Gazette. Posted June 15 2006, 12.53am
Newsquest has switched publication of its Essex Evening Echo series to the morning, following a trend it has started with its evening papers in the North West. (more)

Echo sportswriter named Merseyside Journalists of the Year
From Press Gazette. Posted June 12 2006, 10.12am
Chris Bascombe, the Liverpool Echo’s sports writer, has won the Merseyside Journalist of the Year award. (more)

Homechoice set to cut price tag as offers come in low
From Brand Republic. Posted June 5 2006, 9.06am
LONDON - Homechoice, the broadband television and internet service, could be sold for as little as �50m after offers for the service came in well below the �200m its owners had hoped for. (more)

Homechoice set to cut sale price
From The Times. Posted June 5 2006, 12.00am
HOMECHOICE, the pioneering broadband television provider, looks set to reduce its sale price after receiving offers of interest significantly below its hopes.... (more)

Honda launches bespoke channel on Homechoice
From Brand Republic. Posted May 24 2006, 11.05am
LONDON - Car marque Honda is set to launch a new video-on-demand television channel broadcasting across the Homechoice digital platform. (more)

Cup final Echo on eBay before being published
From Press Gazette. Posted May 15 2006, 12.58pm
The special edition of the Liverpool Echo following the FA Cup final was on sale on e-bay for £5 before it went to press, the newspaper claims. (more)

Homechoice adds African Movie Channel
From Digital Spy. Posted April 25 2006, 3.59pm
Homechoice adds the UK's first African movie channel to its digital TV lineup. (more)

Homechoice launches African film channel
From Brand Republic. Posted April 24 2006, 11.04am
LONDON - Homechoice, the digital home network, is to bulk up its digital TV offering with the addition of an African movie channel. (more)

TCH expands with purchase of Echo Group
From Press Gazette. Posted February 16 2006, 12.00am
The County Cork-based TCH group, owner of the Irish Examiner and the Sunday Business Post, has acquired The Echo Group series of newspapers, which circulate mainly in Wexford. (more)

Offshore Echos publishes online tribute to Sylvain Tack
From Media Network Weblog. Posted February 13 2006, 9.14am
Chris Edwards writes: Sylvain Tack is best remembered for Radio Mi Amigo, whose financial input from hiring of airtime on Radio Caroline in the mid-1970's, undoubtably helped Caroline continue. Since the end of Mi Amigo, Tacks life had not been so good. Five years in prison for drug smuggling and an unsuccessful alternative medicine enture had led to an increasingly lonely life in recent years. (more)

Echo enjoys FA cup field day
From Press Gazette. Posted February 2 2006, 12.00am
The Gloucestershire Echo had a field day as Cheltenham Town prepared for its FA Cup match against Newcastle United in what the paper described as the biggest match in the club’s 114-year history. (more)

Video Networks mulls putting Homechoice up for sale
From Brand Republic. Posted January 25 2006, 11.01am
LONDON - Video Networks, the owner of the Homechoice broadband, on-demand TV and phone service, may put itself up for sale. (more)

Sex row teacher gives Echo exclusive
From Press Gazette. Posted January 18 2006, 6.12pm
The teacher at the centre of the sex offenders row broke his silence this week and gave his first interview to the Bournemouth Echo. (more)

TM closes Echo’s sports newspaper
From Press Gazette. Posted January 12 2006, 12.11pm
The South Wales Echo’s 90-year-old Saturday night sports newspaper, the Sports Echo, has become the third regional newspaper sports title to close in the last couple of months. (more)

Northern Echo tests water with trial compact edition
From Press Gazette. Posted January 12 2006, 12.30am
Switch from broadsheet to tabloid is ‘most significant change since dawn of colour’, says North East editor (more)

Northern Echo goes tabloid
From Media Guardian. Posted January 6 2006, 10.32am
10.30am: One of Britain's most traditional newspapers, the Northern Echo, is joining the tabloid bandwagon. By Steve Busfield. (more)

Northern Echo turns tabloid
From Press Gazette. Posted January 6 2006, 10.21am
The Northern Echo is to embark on an historic change by changing to a tabloid format. (more)

Jon Grubb appointed editor of Lincolnshire Echo
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted January 1 2006, 2.38pm
Don't fear failure if you wish to succeed, advises regional newspaper journalist (more)