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Byline: Adgully Bureau Larsen & Toubro has appointed Sumeet Chatterjee as Chief Communications Officer. He announced his new position via his LinkedIn account. Earlier he was working with RPG Enterprises [...]

Byline: Adgully Bureau BC Web Wise, India's leading Independent Digital Marketing agency has appointed Sonali Banerji as a Creative Director. Sonali will be working for key accounts where she will [...]

Byline: Adgully Bureau Subsequent to the announcement of acquiring 51% stake in Next Mediaworks Ltd (NMWL), the owner of Radio One and the appointment of Harshad Jain as the CEO [...]

Bob Pittman had no intention of putting lipstick on a pig. The native Southerner and C-suite veteran, who was semi-retired a few years ago and overseeing private equity firm Pilot [...]

1 Steve Hatch, general manager, northern Europe, Facebook Hatch has become the face of Facebook in medialand, selling the story and pressing the flesh. He likes to schmooze at Soho [...]

It's no secret that radio deejays, if you can even call them that anymore, hold a lot of power and influence over their legions of listeners. Howard Stern--who no one [...]

September 11. The date has come to symbolize so much, both good and bad. The terrorist attacks set off changes in our culture that have everyone wondering how our lives [...]

Byline: Adgully Bureau Scarecrow has brought on-board four Art Specialists in its Mumbai branch to take forward its vision, quirkiness and design prowess. The new hires include Prasad Jindam (Creative [...]

Global owns Global Radio (the UK's biggest commercial radio company), Global TV and Global Entertainment. Miron was previously managing director of The Mail on Sunday at DMGT. You can't beat [...]

WHAT HE DID Studd created 'inside his head', an animation for BBC Radio 4 to accompany Stephen Hawking's Reith Lecture. Tell us about the project. The BBC asked me to [...]

Erstwhile Clear Channel Mudra has now become Ignite Mudra that will act as a through-the-line-communication-agency with a special focus on brand solutions through OOH, promotions and retail marketing. Gour Gupta, [...]

Early in the afternoon on Thursday, Oct. 15, on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, a heaving throng surged toward the doors of the Barnes & Noble bookstore on the corner of [...]

The Nebraska Rural Radio Assn (NRRA) Board of Dirs promotes Tim Marshall to CEO/ Gen'l Mgr, succeeding Craig Larson who is retiring. Marshall had been COO of Marshall the Association. [...]

Amelia Torode was given access to an array of research from Radiocentre that attempts to prove music's strategic strength and its role in creativity. Has this changed how she does [...]

Richard Wheatly died last week after a short illness, aged 69. The former chief executive and chairman of Leo Burnett joined Jazz FM as its managing director in 1995 and [...]

SureWaves, a next generation media convergence pioneer has strengthened its core team further by appointing Sridhar V Naidu as Regional Director - South, to lead the business operations in the [...]

Vanditta Malhotra Hegde, Senior Vice President and Legal Head of Entertainment Network (India) Limited (Radio Mirchi) is moving out of Times Group and is joining hands with Singh & Singh [...]

With the appointment of Andrew Morley, Clear Channel has reinforced its reputation for hiring chief executives from rather unusual backgrounds. Morley replaces the highbrow astrophysics graduate Matthew Dearden, who has [...]

Entertainment Network India Limited (ENIL) has promoted Yatish Mehrishi as the Chief Revenue Officer with immediate effect. In the new role Yatish will be accountable for driving better integration and [...]

Kenny hit the headlines last week when it was announced she would take the helm at the radio body. She was perhaps not the obvious choice given her lack of [...]

The Berlin School of Creative Leadership is proud to announce the 'Clear Channel Scholarship for Leadership in Audio Innovation'. The scholarship will provide full tuition support for a top creative [...]

The former BBC correspondent and ex-Campaign reporter Torin Douglas on the launch of commercial radio in the early 70s. Monday, 8 October 1973, just before 6am. In Gough Square, off [...]

Kinetic's new UK chief executive has chosen to take on his first agency job at a time when the outdoor industry is going through a period of great change, Maisie [...]

In the future, when you open the dictionary to look up the word 'Byzantine,' there may be a note that says: 'See--Federal Communications Commission.' There's no place that epitomizes intrigue, [...]

Clive Dickens, the chief operating officer of Absolute Radio, is relocating to Australia to join the radio network Southern Cross Austereo. Absolute Radio has been courting potential buyers. This week, [...]

Kinetic Worldwide, the WPP outdoor agency, has appointed Stuart Taylor, the former chief executive of GMG Radio, as its UK chief executive. In his new role, Taylor will lead the [...]

Entertainment Network (India) Limited (ENIL) has named Yatish Mehrishi as the Executive Vice-President and Regional Director for West & Central India. Yatish Mehrishi joined Radio Mirchi in 2009 as Station [...]

Global Radio, the owner of Classic FM and the Heart network, has hired Matt Jeffries, the director of customer intelligence at BSkyB, to the new role of group director of [...]

Tom Coare has joined the specialist radio planning and buying agency RadioWorks as its head of planning after two years as a senior planner/buyer at MediaCom. Coare will be part [...]

The GMG Radio group commercial director, Jonathan Gillespie, has become the latest person to leave the company after its purchase by Global Radio. Other senior departures include the chief executive, [...]

Global Radio, the owner of the Capital and Heart stations, has appointed Martin Plant as its commercial trading director. Plant, the former executive sales director of the now- defunct TV [...]

Clear Channel Outdoor UK is on the hunt for a commercial director after Rob Atkinson, its former chief operating officer, announced that he will not be returning to the UK. [...]

Type of agency: Marketing and technology Company ownership: Independent Key personnel: Anil Pillai UK chief executive Chris Clarke chief creative officer Simon Gill executive creative director Michael Islip client partner [...]

Jonathan Arendt, the managing director at Planet Rock, is to leave the digital radio station to set up a new digital media company, 7West Arendt will launch 7West with Ricki [...]

Clear Channel Outdoor has combined its US and international operations and promoted William Eccleshare (pictured), its international chief executive, to the new position of chief executive of Clear Channel Outdoor [...]

Absolute Radio has appointed OMD UK's head of radio, Ben Barker, as its new head of agency sales. Barker will have responsibility for the airtime sales team and agency relationships [...]

- Danny Wallace on Xfm We've got a bit of a love/hate relationship with Xfm, which, despite everything, has just about managed to cling on to some of the indie [...]

TalkSPORT, the commercial radio station that recently hired the former Sky Sports presenters Andy Gray and Richard Keys, won the top prize of UK Station of the Year at this [...]

Gary Digby, the former ITV commercial director who left ITV as part of a restructure last month, has resurfaced at the commercial radio group and Capital FM owner Global Radio [...]

Peter Buchanan, the former COI deputy chief executive, is to spearhead a commercial radio industry initiative that is aimed at improving creative standards in the medium. Buchanan, who left COI [...]

Global Radio's sales director, Ed Chalmers, loves radio for its dynamic and fast-moving environment. The fact that Ed Chalmers, Global Radio's sales director, is barely distinguishable in the group photo [...]

GMG Radio has appointed Andy Carter as the managing director of its national Smooth Radio station. The move will see Carter add responsibilities for the station, which launches next month, [...]

Alasdair Reid talks to Chris Goldson about the innovative approach helping Absolute step out of Virgin Radio's shadow. Chris Goldson has Absolute Radio's director of corporate communications sit in with [...]

Phil Riley, the chief executive of the Midlands radio group Orion Media, has denied he made an offer for Guardian Media Group's radio assets, which include Smooth Radio, following weekend [...]

Tribune Interactive has named Jeff Kapungi chief operating officer. He will be responsible for all aspects of the operations of the company's interactive websites publishing and broadcasting operations. He moves [...]