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Newsquest is to close its newspaper printing plant in York in January with the loss of 22 jobs, in order to transfer production to Bradford. 23-Dec-2008 MTV is to shed up to 80 of the 750 jobs at its TV production operations in London, and some production and transmission services may be outsourced. 23-Dec-2008 UTV Radio is to close the Talk 107 radio station in Edinburgh with the loss of 20 jobs. 19-Dec-2008 Ideal World is to shed 70 jobs at its Peterborough-based shopping channel. 10-Dec-2008 Entertainment Rights is to shed 50 of the 150 jobs in its children's TV business by the end of the year. 10-Dec-2008 Newsquest North West is considering plans to close its £17m local newspaper printing plant in Bolton, in order to transfer production to other sites. 10-Dec-2008 Priory PR & Events is to cease trading with the loss of 11 jobs at its public relations consultancy in Brighton. 08-Dec-2008 Clear Channel Outdoor is to shed 80 of the 840 jobs in its outdoor advertising business, affecting up to 20 offices and depots nationwide. 08-Dec-2008 The Number is to expand its directory assistance call centre in Plymouth by March 2009, with the creation of 90 jobs, but its Cardiff centre will close with the transfer of up to 300 jobs to its Conduit customer care sites. 05-Dec-2008 Newsquest is to reduce the number of journalists and publishing staff at its Herald & Times newspaper business in Glasgow from 250 to about 220. 04-Dec-2008 Aardman Animations is considering plans to shed up to 35 jobs at its film animations business in Bristol. 04-Dec-2008 BBC Scotland is to shed 76 jobs from its news and other production departments, as part of an ongoing cost-reduction programme. 04-Dec-2008 Experian, the Nottingham-based credit information group, is to shed up to 300 of the 4,000 jobs at its operations in the UK and Ireland over the next few months. 04-Dec-2008 The BBC is to shed 210 jobs at its Resources TV facilities subsidiary in Birmingham, Bristol and London. 03-Dec-2008 Trinity Mirror is to shed 43 jobs from its team of 173 journalists at the Liverpool Daily Post and Echo in early 2009. 01-Dec-2008 Virgin Media is to close its TV and broadband telesales department at Team Valley in Gateshead in April 2009, with the loss of 113 jobs. 01-Dec-2008 Independent News & Media is to relocate its London-based staff to the Kensington headquarters of Daily Mail & General Trust next year, in order to share back-office services and save up to £3m a year. 01-Dec-2008 CN Group is to shed 30 jobs at its newspaper and magazine publishing operations in Cumbria. 28-Nov-2008 Telegraph Media Group is expected to shed about 50 of the 1,050 jobs in its newspaper publishing business. 25-Nov-2008 Newsquest North East is to shed up to 17 editorial jobs in its local newspapers business and close district offices in Barnard Castle, Redcar, Richmond, Stockton and Thirsk. 24-Nov-2008 Daily Mail & General Trust is to shed a further 60 jobs from its Northcliffe Media local newspapers by the end of the year. 24-Nov-2008 Infoserve is looking to recruit a further 70 staff at its online search business in Darlington. 21-Nov-2008 Independent News & Media is to shed about 90 of the 424 jobs at the London office of the Independent newspaper by early next year, including 60 editorial jobs. 19-Nov-2008 BiP Solutions is to relocate its Glasgow-based information business and 60 staff to Pacific Quay, with the creation of 100 new jobs. 19-Nov-2008 Cosgrove Hall is considering plans to relocate its remaining Manchester-based TV production business to Granada Studios by the end of the year. 18-Nov-2008 Facebook, the social networking website, is seeking a suitable location in London's West End for a new 7,000 sq ft headquarters. 18-Nov-2008 RDF Media, the TV production company, is considering plans for a £50m management buy-out. 13-Nov-2008 Bunnyfoot is to open a market research office at Electric Works on the Digital Campus in Sheffield in March 2009. 12-Nov-2008 Newsquest is planning to centralise the editorial production work for its Hampshire regional newspapers at its office in Southampton, with the loss of up to ten jobs. 12-Nov-2008 Yell is to shed up to 1,300 of the 13,900 jobs in its global directories publishing business, with up to 300 job losses at UK sites including Reading and Slough. 12-Nov-2008 Virgin Media is to shed up to 2,200 of the 14,600 jobs in its cable TV business by the end of 2010, in order to cut call centre and engineering costs. 12-Nov-2008 Bezier is planning to close its marketing materials manufacturing unit in Bristol with the loss of 73 jobs, in order to transfer the work to its site in Thurrock. 11-Nov-2008 Trinity Mirror is to reorganise its Tyneside-based local newspaper production operations with the loss of 28 jobs and the closure of five district offices in Durham, Guisborough, North Shields, Redcar and Stockton. 10-Nov-2008 Avid Technology is to combine its video, audio and consumer operations into a single company, with the loss of 37 jobs in the UK and 410 worldwide. 04-Nov-2008 BBC Wales is considering a number of sites in Cardiff for a new 150,000 sq ft office and 200,000 sq ft studio, and a decision is expected later this year. 30-Oct-2008 Midland News Association is to merge the Shropshire Star and Express & Star newspapers in Telford and Wolverhampton with the possible loss of 100 jobs, and printing will transfer from West Bromwich to Wolverhampton and Telford. 28-Oct-2008 Granada Learning, the educational testing firm, has been put up for sale by Veronis Suhler Stevenson with a price tag of £55m. 27-Oct-2008 EMI is to vacate its 86,000 sq ft office in Hammersmith and relocate the staff to its smaller office in Kensington. 21-Oct-2008 Cwmni Da is to set up a £2.1m TV and film production centre at the former Goleuad building in Caernarfon, securing the future of 51 jobs and creating 16 new jobs. 17-Oct-2008 The BBC is to relocate half of its network TV spending away from London by 2016, with the development of "sustainable creative clusters" in Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Glasgow, London and Salford. 16-Oct-2008 Shed Media is to open a TV production office at Pacific Quay in Glasgow, in order to become part of the new Digital Media Quarter. 15-Oct-2008 ITV is planning to close its factual programming department in Manchester in January 2009 with the loss of 26 jobs, while its Manchester-based features team will merge with the current affairs department. 15-Oct-2008 Bgroup is planning to increase the staff at its Newcastle-based advertising agency from 22 to 30 over the next 12 months. 03-Oct-2008 WPP, the advertising agency, is considering plans to relocate its UK headquarters to Ireland for tax reasons. 29-Sep-2008 KM Group is to shed 61 jobs at its newspaper publishing and radio media operations in Kent, and six of its smaller offices will close. 24-Sep-2008 Channel 4 is to shed 150 head office jobs from its 1,000-strong workforce, as part of a strategy to reduce costs by £50m a year. 24-Sep-2008 MediaCityUK is looking into the possibility of setting up a production hub for independent radio stations at its site in Salford. 23-Sep-2008 BSkyB is investing £77m in a new broadcasting facility at its Osterley site in London by 2011, having selected Sony as the lead systems integrator. 23-Sep-2008 ITV is planning to cut back its regional news services with the loss of up to 200 jobs throughout the country. 22-Sep-2008 Global Radio is to set up a nationwide network of 35 Heart-branded radio stations, in order to offer an improved service to advertisers. 16-Sep-2008 News Corporation is to consolidate its various media and publishing operations at a new complex at its 20-acre site in Wapping by 2012, having dropped plans to relocate to the City of London. 11-Sep-2008 Clash Music has secured Scottish Enterprise funding to support the online expansion of its Dundee-based music and media business, with the creation of 18 jobs. 10-Sep-2008 ITV is said to be in negotiations with Peel Holdings to relocate its Manchester-based TV production centre to the Mediacity development in Salford. 10-Sep-2008 Trinity Mirror is to close seven weekly newspapers and nine satellite offices in North Wales and the North West, with the loss of about 30 jobs. 09-Sep-2008 Trinity Mirror is to relocate production of the Liverpool Echo and Daily Post from Liverpool to Oldham at the end of next year, with the possible loss of up to 100 jobs. 08-Sep-2008 Newsquest is considering plans to close its newspaper printing press at Caxton Court in Colchester, with the loss of up to 80 jobs. 08-Sep-2008 Norfolk County Council has announced that its East of England Production Innovation Centre in Norwich has been selected as the UK base for the £5m E-Clic European network of media and broadband technology development centres. 04-Sep-2008 OPEX Group is creating 34 jobs at the new head office for its Stanco exhibition services business at Crosskeys in South Wales. 02-Sep-2008 Trinity Mirror is to shed 65 editorial jobs at its regional newspaper operations across the West Midlands, as part of a reorganisation that will include the sale of newspapers in Northampton and Long Eaton. 21-Aug-2008 BSkyB is to set up a new call centre for its TV, broadband and phone services at City Walk in Leeds early next year, with the creation of 350 jobs. 20-Aug-2008 Omnicom, the advertising firm, is looking to set up a new 400,000 sq ft office in London, as its existing site at Bishops Bridge Road will be demolished to make way for a rail link. 11-Aug-2008 Johnston Press is to shed up to 30 jobs in Edinburgh, as part of a reorganisation of its Scotsman newspapers business. 06-Aug-2008 Johnston Press is to close a newspaper printing press in Northampton with the loss of 69 jobs. 01-Aug-2008 BSkyB is to shed 250 jobs following a fall in profits in its broadcasting business. 01-Aug-2008 Manchester City Council is considering plans to invest £5m transforming the former Sharp electronics factory in East Manchester into a digital production hub, in partnership with animation company Red Vision. 25-Jul-2008 Zodiac Training and Third Eye are to offer a new interactive training service that uses virtual reality technology to simulate hazardous environments, which will create about 50 jobs in County Durham. 23-Jul-2008 GCap Media is said to be shedding about 160 jobs in its marketing, PR, production, legal and technology departments, as part of a cost-cutting programme. 23-Jul-2008 AJ Bussell & Sons, the Derby-based newspaper and magazine distributor, is to cease trading this month with the loss of an unspecified number of jobs. 21-Jul-2008 Cambridge University Press is to shed up to 40 of the 250 jobs at its Cambridge-based educational books business by the end of the year. 21-Jul-2008 Picsolve, the Derby-based operator of camera installations at visitor attractions with annual turnover of about £20m, has undergone a management buy-out backed by Fidelity Equity Partners. 21-Jul-2008 EMI is to close its music distribution centre in Leamington next year with the possible loss of up to 100 jobs, having announced a new contract with logistics company Ceva. 18-Jul-2008 Envy is to create 15 new jobs at a £2m TV production facility due to open at Great Portland Street in London in October. 15-Jul-2008 Technicolor is to relocate its London-based TV production studio and 40 staff from West Drayton to Lexington Street this autumn, and 16 new jobs will be created. 01-Jul-2008 Noise London, the London-based sound production company with six staff, is to go into liquidation. 01-Jul-2008 Evolutions is creating 20 new jobs following a £2m investment in film production equipment at the former Sanctuary Post building on London's Great Pulteney Street. 01-Jul-2008 Iliffe News & Media is planning to close its printing press in Burton with the loss of 15 jobs, in order to transfer production of a number of weekly newspapers to Cambridge. 23-Jun-2008 News International is to close its News Magazines publishing business in London, with some of the titles being transferred to other companies. 19-Jun-2008 Newsquest is to reduce the number of daily editions of the Northern Echo newspaper with the loss of 19 jobs, and eight editorial jobs will be lost in York. 19-Jun-2008 Stoke-on-Trent City Council is to consider plans from an unnamed international broadcasting company for the development of a £30m media centre in Fenton, including a TV studio and 200-seat auditorium. 12-Jun-2008 Hasgrove is to merge its Connectpoint, Amaze and Pavilion digital marketing operations into an enlarged group called Amaze, and some of the 107 staff will relocate to new offices in Manchester and Liverpool. 12-Jun-2008 Poulters, the Leeds-based advertising and public relations firm, is to be closed by parent company Bezier with the loss of up to 42 jobs. 05-Jun-2008 Inuk has secured a £9.5m investment from S4C and venture capital firm Wesley Clover to fund the commercial development of its new Abercynon-based internet TV business. 05-Jun-2008 JML is to create 20 new jobs at its online and TV shopping centre at Tyne Dock in South Shields by the end of the year. 28-May-2008 Thomson Directories, the telephone directory publisher, is expected to be sold off by Seat Pagine Galle of Italy for about £100m. 19-May-2008 Tinopolis, the Llanelli-based TV production company with sites in London, Oxford, Glasgow, Cardiff and Leeds, is to be acquired by Virtruvian Partners for £45m. 12-May-2008 Independent News & Media is to invest £7m in the installation of two additional press towers at its magazine printing plant in Newry by 2009. 12-May-2008 Easington District Council has approved plans from Coolmore Estates for the development of a £192m film studio at Dawdon in County Durham, including two hotels, a training centre and the creation of up to 2,400 jobs. 12-May-2008 NetPlay TV has acquired Sky Channel 848 from Hollywood TV for £0.5m, in order to launch a Live BlackJack channel. 07-May-2008 Smoke & Mirrors is to invest £5m in the expansion of its London-based visual effects business, including the extension of its Beak Street office and the creation of new jobs. 29-Apr-2008 Newsquest is considering plans to shed up to 30 jobs at its newspaper publishing operations in Sussex and Wiltshire, in order to outsource prepress work to Express KCS in India. 29-Apr-2008 Johnston Press is to shed 14 finance and pre-press jobs at the Derry Journal newspaper, in order to centralise some operations at its Portadown office. 29-Apr-2008 Thomson Reuters is said to be looking to shed up to 2,500 jobs in its newly-merged financial data services business. 21-Apr-2008 The East of England Development Agency has awarded a £1.5m grant to EPIC to fund the installation of new equipment at the Norfolk County Council TV production centre in Norwich. 17-Apr-2008 Johnston Press is planning to stop day printing at its Leeds press hall with the loss of up to 44 jobs, in order to transfer production of the Yorkshire Evening Post to Dinnington. 15-Apr-2008 LBM is to shed 150 of the 2,000 jobs at its seven sites, including call centres in Altrincham, Bredbury and Middleton, having lost a contract with BSkyB. 09-Apr-2008 ITV has sold its 50% stake in Arsenal Broadband to KSE UK for £23m, as part of a strategy to dispose of its football assets. 08-Apr-2008 Infoserve is to create a further 100 jobs at its Darlington-based internet search business over the next year. 24-Mar-2008 Yahoo is planning to relocate its European headquarters and up to 70 management jobs from London to Switzerland. 17-Mar-2008 Hat Trick Productions is to relocate its London-based TV production business from Soho to a 16,500 sq ft office at Oval Road in Camden. 17-Mar-2008 ITV has sold its 50% stake in Liverpoolfc.tv to The Liverpool Football and Athletic Grounds for £16m. 06-Mar-2008 The BBC is considering plans to relocate its Bristol studios and up to 730 staff from Whiteladies Road to a new digital production centre in the city. 05-Mar-2008 Virgin Media is said to be considering plans to sell off a number of TV channels, including Bravo, Living TV and Sit Up, having appointed Goldman Sachs to conduct a review. 03-Mar-2008 Blackwell Publishing is planning to shed up to 25 jobs at its accounts department in Oxford, following its recent acquisition by Wiley. 29-Feb-2008 Yell is to relocate the Reading-based headquarters of its business directories business and 1,350 staff to the One Reading Central development in 2010. 27-Feb-2008 Thephonebook is creating 40 jobs at a new directory enquiries call centre opening at Festival Park in Stoke-on-Trent over the next few weeks. 20-Feb-2008 Eros International is planning to relocate the London headquarters of its film production and distribution business from Park Royal to Manchester Square next year. 19-Feb-2008 Press Holdings is to stop publishing The Business weekly newspaper with the loss of 11 jobs. 14-Feb-2008 Eaga has won a £500m outsourcing contract from the BBC to help people switch to digital TV over the next five years, which could create up to 350 jobs. 12-Feb-2008 GCap is to abandon many of its investments in digital radio, including the sale of its stake in Digital One to Arqiva and the closure of two music radio stations. 12-Feb-2008 Google has appointed CB Richard Ellis to help with the planned doubling of its 300,000 sq ft office portfolio in Europe, Africa and the Middle East over the next three years. 12-Feb-2008 Bauer Consumer Media is planning to close two women's magazine titles acquired recently from Emap, with the possible loss of about 30 jobs. 11-Feb-2008 Bath News & Media is to relocate its Bath-based local newspaper business and about 100 staff to the Westpoint House development in James Street by May. 08-Feb-2008 Wheeler End Studio, the Buckinghamshire-based recording studio, has been put up for sale with a price tag of £3.9m. 31-Jan-2008 Auto Trader is to shed up to 44 jobs at its car sales magazine production department in Reading in March. 28-Jan-2008 Plymouth City Council is considering plans from Urban Splash South West to set up a 6,000 sq ft film studio and production facility at the Royal William Yard, which could be used by a new local TV station called One Plymouth TV. 25-Jan-2008 NEMS Market Research is looking to double the 70-strong workforce at its Billingham-based market research business over the next five years, and is currently seeking 20 new staff for its Computer Assisted Interviewing operation. 22-Jan-2008 Carnival Film & Television has been put up for sale by Southern Star with a price tag of £60m, and both the BBC and ITV are said to be interested. 21-Jan-2008 ITV has appointed Grant Thornton to find a buyer for its Carlton Screen cinema advertising business. 21-Jan-2008 Trader Media Group is to close its Wiltshire magazine printing business in Bristol, with the loss of up to 164 jobs. 16-Jan-2008 EMI is planning to centralise support functions such as sales and marketing, which could lead to the loss of up to 2,000 jobs from its recorded music division over the next six months. 14-Jan-2008 Aegis is relocating the London headquarters of its Vizeum media solutions business from Upper St Martin's Lane to an 18,000 sq ft office at the Qube building in the West End. 14-Jan-2008 QVC, the TV shopping channel, has shortlisted six potential sites in London and six sites in the North West for a new 230,000 sq ft office and broadcasting centre. 14-Jan-2008 Newsquest is considering plans to close its newspaper printing plant in Newport, South Wales, with the loss of 21 jobs. 10-Jan-2008 StrataMatrix is relocating its Aberystwyth-based public relations business and up to 20 staff to the Institute of Grassland & Environmental Research site at Gogerddan. 10-Jan-2008
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