News, opinion and resources for the North West media industry Subscribe to our RSS feed
Front Page | Jobs | News | How-Do TV | Features | Comment | Rumours | How do they do | How did they do | Blogs | About | Ad Rates | Login | MarketPlace
NEWS BY SECTOR | Publishing | Broadcasting | Marketing Services | Digital Media | Other Media | The Wrap | Polls | How-Do Awards | How-Do Events

Breaking news: GMG looks to sell Manchester Evening News to Trinity Mirror? | Print |  Email to a friend
Thursday, 17 December 2009

Reports are filtering through this morning that the Guardian Media Group is believed to be in talks to sell the Manchester Evening News to rival publishing group Trinity Mirror.
Reports are filtering through this morning that the Guardian Media Group is believed to be in talks to sell the Manchester Evening News to rival publishing group Trinity Mirror.

At the time of writing How-Do had been in contact with parties at both GMG and Trinity, but was informed that neither was willing to comment on the matter as yet.

It is being suggested that GMG Regional Media is to be sold off in a bid to save jobs and continue with the Scott Trust's overarching objective of protecting the interests of national paper The Guardian.

Image
A figure of £40m has been mooted for the sale, but, again, at the time of writing this could not be confirmed.

MEN staff that How-Do did manage to speak to informed us that they were unaware of any potential sale.

Both Trinity and GMG have suffered at the hands of the global downturn in advertising spend, with Trinity last year shedding some 800 staff and recently cutting back numbers at the Liverpool Daily Post, while GMG Regional Media has closed regional offices, altered it distribution model and made staff cuts in continued efforts to stem its losses.

Trinity Mirror currently prints GMG's Manchester titles.

How-Do will bring you more information as soon as we have it.

Update: GMG has now released the following statement to How-Do. A spokesperson has said that the group will make no further comment beyond this, nor will it confirm any details of the talks themselves.

"In line with its remit GMG keeps its portfolio under review on an ongoing basis.

Since the publication of the Digital Britain report we have been considering the potential for further consolidation within the regional press sector, and as part of this there have been some exploratory talks regarding our regional media business.

However these are at a very early stage and it is not clear whether they will progress or what the outcome is likely to be."

 

 

Something to add? Then leave a comment below or email us now.

Did you enjoy this article? Please share it!
Digg!Reddit!Del.icio.us!Google!Live!Facebook!Slashdot!Technorati!StumbleUpon!Newsvine!Furl!Yahoo!


Sponsored links:




  Comments (72)
RSS comments
 1 By Observor, on 17-12-2009 08:27
Surely the first thing GMG should do is shut down the loss making Channel M. Why pour money down the drain on a pointless channel!
 2 By Mr_Osato, on 17-12-2009 08:37
indeed, Channel M remains the elephant in the room. As for the wellbeing of the GMG group, that old phrase about frying pans and fires springs to mind.
 3 By Channel M, on 17-12-2009 08:38
Or keep Channel M because if this rumour is true, that would give Trinity a little TV station to play with... and help it bid for the ITV regional news provision in another area (in addition to North East & Wales)....
 4 By MEN cynic, on 17-12-2009 09:08
Think this spells good news for the MEN 
in particular. Trinity is in the business 
of regional papers whereas the Scott 
Trust couldn't give a flying....
 5 By Channel Morbid, on 17-12-2009 09:05
Nah, Trinity doesn't need a little TV station to play with. It can easily partner up with a production company if needs be.  
At least Trinity understands regional newspapers.
 6 By Kid Disco, on 17-12-2009 10:00
I wonder if Manchester Confidential is involved in the bidding at all.
 7 By Agreed, on 17-12-2009 10:13
I find myself in the same boat at MEN Cynic.  
 
This is good news for the editorial staff and for the paper itself.  
 
It could be bad news for departments where duplication between the Liverpool and Manc titles exist - advertising perhaps - but more pointedly it will mean a clean out of the MEN's top management.  
 
I'll say no more on that subject.
 8 By Real World, on 17-12-2009 10:17
MEN Cynic....out here in the real world, when businesses join together in a takeover, there is two of everything. The result is that duplicates get thrown overboard by the company which has done the taking over. So for a start it means bye-bye to the top tiers of execs and you can expect half the remaining staff of MEN Media to get the heave-ho as well as economies of scale kick in. Trinity has an infrastructure which can do most of what is needed. As for Channel M, who knows. Maybe they'll do a story on it tonight??? Not.
 9 By Spec Ulation, on 17-12-2009 11:17
As it's Christmas, it would have been nice if How-Do had credited the original Telegraph source - their story went online at 1201 this morning. 
 
Also many reading this will know that a potential sale of the MEN etc to Trinity Mirror has been the subject of speculation for many months, if not years. It was even discussed in a MediaGuardian piece about the future of regional news groups. 
 
Is it finally about to happen? 
 
(Morning Spec. How-Do's sources were local, but yes The Telegraph beat us to it by a good few hours. The potential sale of the MEN has indeed been speculated on in the past, both here and on many other sites. Merry Christmas to you and to one and all! Ed)
 10 By Exmen, on 17-12-2009 10:57
Well it's no surprise this story is it? Most of the contibutors to this forum have known for a while that the MEN is up for sale. What I'm keen to know is - are the regional titles included in the sale or is just the MEN?
 11 By MEN cynic, on 17-12-2009 11:13
Thank you Real World - I hadn't realised I was so clueless. 
 
I think you'll find there's only two of some things. Editorial, sales and circulation will largely be untouched and indeed argubaly strengthened. Ad sales to agencies and direct clients should prove more efficient and indeed they now have a pan North West sales proposition. Watch out for NWDA support now they have regional spread. 
 
Some management functions in Manchester will go and possibly further admin/accounts functions will move to Liverpool. But overall, Trinity is getting this for a song. Strip out just £2/3m of costs - setting aside Channel M - and add this to a stablisising market and Trinity will pick up an operation whihc could contribute towards £10m next calendar year.  
 
Good on 'em and good for the MEN.
 12 By TM hater, on 17-12-2009 11:35
As someone who has seen TM rape the Birmingham titles of staff and its soul then I can only wish MEN all the best. You will need it. 
 
Interesting that TM can afford another title given the number of folk they've laid off in Brum over last 2 years.
 13 By Real World, on 17-12-2009 12:03
Didn't mean to imply cluelessness, MEN Cynic, so apologies. Just not convinced that TM is going to treat this as some sort of exercise in philanthropy. TM have a reputation for paring to the bone and I don't believe they will take the same, somewhat benign, view that GMG had - despite recent events - when it comes to staffing. Another factor is that GMG chopped back to make the operation look good for a sale. TM's mantra will be; we've spent all this cash buying the bloody thing, so what can we quickly do to reduce costs and recover our outlay? Remember that TM, unlike MEN Media's parent company GMG, is a shareholder-owned company and that fact drives all of their business calculations. I hope that I'm wrong, but I predict a bloodbath.
 14 By Observor, on 17-12-2009 12:09
Why would TM want a a loss making little watched TV channel. There is no other ITV Region available until the end of 2012 at the earliest - and that's only if Labour are re-elected. So for the next two and half years TM would be taking on what Channel M is - a loss making burden on GMG. Sell the spectrum to Man City to create MCFCTV on Freeview. Cut your losses.
 15 By Uh-oh...., on 17-12-2009 12:20
"Update...... there have been some exploratory talks regarding our regional media business." 
Hmm. Start clearing your desks everyone.
 16 By True Blue, on 17-12-2009 12:22
MCFCTV!!!! Yes! Come ON!!!!
 17 By Donna, on 17-12-2009 13:59
TM hater, so many were laid off in Birmingham because it was losing shed-loads of cash. It's in no-one's interests to keep propping up a business which can't make money for itself, as the MEN knows full well due to its relationship with The Guardian.
 18 By Banker, on 17-12-2009 14:23
The sell-off makes so much sense for GMG. If they get £40 million from the sale and suitably invest it, they will generate well in excess of £3 million a year in interest alone. 3 mill for doing nothing - far preferable to the messy job of having to run a business for a measily 500k profit per annum. And guaranteed too. That would go a long way towards paying for Rusbridger's piano lessons.
 19 By In the Dark, on 17-12-2009 14:42
So now we kind of know where this is all headed.  
First GMG merges the weekly offices into Manchester. Then they bring in weekly newspaper journalists doing the jobs of MEN journalists on the cheap, and in the process cut staffing to the bare bone. 
If Trinity Mirror takes over it will cut out 'expensive' editorial staff and promote cheapo weekly journalists to do the job. 
Methinks MEN journalists ought to worry!
 20 By gavin, on 17-12-2009 14:43
there's a certain inevitability to this due to the regional business' invidious position in relation to group. Namely, they will protect their resource heavy business at all costs regardless of whether the recent cost reductions at MEN Media guarantee an operating profit or not. TM will only buy if at a bargain basement price due to the structural decline of regional newspaper business'. However, unlike GMG, they will be able to rationalise that business veen further by sharing senior positions with Liverpool management for example, and other 'convergences' where feasible. Naturally, this will be bad news for a sizeable number of employees in most departments at MEN Media, while GMG will be happy to take a cash injection to temporaily delay inevitable further cost reduction at their end. The supreme irony that employess at MEN media have to deal with is that a campaigning liberal insitution such as GMG cares not what jot about either their heritage or the future oflocal journalism in Manchester.
 21 By The Cardigan, on 17-12-2009 14:47
I am worried.
 22 By The Pipe, on 17-12-2009 15:26
Look. Remember the Scott Trust wording - go online and see it for yourself - it says the sole reason for the existence of the Scott Trust is to protect The Grauniad from commercial pressure IN PERPETUITY. That means protect the Grauniad, no matter what. All other priorities rescinded, as Mother the computer said in Alien when Ripley managed to hack in. So all this emotive language about GMG "not caring" or "blah blah blah" is to miss the point. The business has been programmed, since the Scott Trust was formed, to act, AT ALL TIMES, ONLY in a way which tends towards securing the future of the Guardian. It's unfortunate if a lot of people are only now learning this grim fact, but that is how it has been for many decades. Sorry for the CAPS but banging the desk doesn't show up in How Do.
 23 By Tony Murray website, on 17-12-2009 15:49
Hmm, the pipe, apart from the fact you have possibly the crappest alter ego on HD, you are right in all crucial respects, save one... 
 
The Scott Trust was wound up last year. (http://www.how-do.co.uk/north-west-media-news/alternative-wrap/tony-murray%27s-end-of-year-wrap-2008-200812274322/)
 24 By The Pipe (and proud of it), on 17-12-2009 16:01
Heck - forgot about that. Anyway, you know what I meant. Whatever the hell it is that replaced the Trust, the song remains the same.
 25 By Tony Murray, on 17-12-2009 16:19
Yo Pipe 
 
I suspect that the winding up of the The Scott Trust doesn't mean the melody lingers in any way. The reasons given in the UK PG article (http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=42189) that covered the Scott Trust closure - announced on the news burying day of Gordon Brown's bank rescue package - made no sense whatsoever and came under very little scrutiny. I thought, at the time, cynical git that I am, that the move had some kind of ulterior agenda and that it let GMG do something that it couldn't otherwise do if the Trust remained. If any HD readers can enlighten me, on or off the record, I'm on tonymurray37@hotmail.com
 26 By The Pipe, on 17-12-2009 16:31
Good point - will check and get back to you
 27 By Hot Metal, on 18-12-2009 09:13
Look everyone, stop getting so worried. The NUJ will be along any minute, warning that they will call out their members on all planets of the solar system for the rest of eternity unless the sale is cancelled, and at that point, GMG and Trinity will buckle. Simples.
 28 By Stone Age Man, on 18-12-2009 10:25
Anyone who was labouring under the illusion that GMG had any more scruples than the average UK media company will be sadly disappointed by this inevitable piece of news. For the long-suffering staff in Scott Place this is just another kick in the proverbial. They should be used to it by now. Perhaps Mr Rushbridger will be able to use the influx of cash to convert his Berliner paper into A4.
 29 By pica, on 18-12-2009 10:51
And meanwhile the lil old Oldham Chronicle manages to survive . . . just about!!!
 30 By reader, on 20-12-2009 10:19
It's hardly an "evening" news paper anymore is it? The paper now seems totally "incapable" of covering any breaking "morning" news stories. 
The morning tabloids are more up to date!
 31 By Captain Chaos, on 20-12-2009 10:19
By True Blue, on 17-12-2009 13:22 
MCFCTV!!!! Yes! Come ON!!!! 
 
Not a chance. Pay TV doesn't work on terrestrial, if they were so keen to launch a channel they'd have done it on Sky already like Man U.  
 
Whatever happens GMG will retain the Freeview licence. Guaranteed income for nearly 20 years, a snip at £10k
 32 By reader, on 20-12-2009 12:24
The MEN was the "only" paper in the country who said that David Beckham wouldn't leave Man Utd for Real Madrid - and yet again this weekend the LONDON papers have "humiliated" the MEN regarding the changes at Man City. 
When it comes to our local sports clubs, Mancunians have come to rely upon the LONDON papers to find out what's really going on - and not the MEN. (Also Sir Alex Ferguson will give indepth interviews to the Daily Mail & LONDON papers, but he won't to the MEN. Why?) 
 
So stop blaming the recession, stop blaming the internet - and take a look at the people who have been running the MEN over the past few years instead!! Because it had become an out-of-touch paper anyway!
 33 By Observor, on 20-12-2009 12:24
''Whatever happens GMG will retain the Freeview licence. Guaranteed income for nearly 20 years, a snip at £10k.'' 
 
But overall making a HUGE loss on Channel M which is draining other parts of GMG!!
 34 By Captain Chaos, on 20-12-2009 18:55
By Observor, on 20-12-2009 13:24 
But overall making a HUGE loss on Channel M which is draining other parts of GMG!! 
 
Who said anything about the Freeview licence being a part of the Channel M business? 
 
HUGE losses? Let's see the figures you're basing that on. Channel M's finances compared to that of MEN/GMG have always been completely insignificant.  
 
It's publications like the Observer and the Grauniad that make huge losses and should be canned but that kind of defeats the purpose of the GMG!
 35 By from behind the xmas tree, on 20-12-2009 18:40
The MEN has effectively offered yesterdays news tomorrow to its readers for the last few years, the image of it as the duvet of the down and out during its free circulation phase removing any perceived value it had long since taken for granted. 
 
I hope this marks a return to relevance.
 36 By The Pipe, on 21-12-2009 11:04
Tony Murray; I checked the UKPG link you referenced and my assertion is correct as this excerpt illustrates; 
"....The change reinforces existing protections for the Guardian. The core purpose has been enshrined in the constitution of The Scott Trust Limited and cannot be altered or amended." 
The "core purpose" is the protection, in perpertuity, of the Guardian. 
Right, carry on with clearing the snow.
 37 By Carolyn, on 21-12-2009 11:08
Observor is right. The Freeview licence which was awarded to Channel M earlier this year will, in the long run, simply be used as a vehicle for piping advertising through the Freeview box.
 38 By Mike, on 21-12-2009 13:02
But Channel M is NOT actually on the Freeview platform, despite them boasting earlier this year that in November 2009 it would be.
 39 By Carolyn, on 21-12-2009 14:05
Yes it is. I watched it.
 40 By Captain Chaos, on 21-12-2009 15:29
By Mike, on 21-12-2009 14:02 
But Channel M is NOT actually on the Freeview platform, despite them boasting earlier this year that in November 2009 it would be. 
 
Boasting? Seriously Mike, I think you should get off the fence and tell us what you 'really' think about Channel M. 
 
How does announcing something suddenly turn into boasting? 
 
Besides, unless GMG bugger things up again, they'll be on air in the next few months anyway.
 41 By Maureen, on 21-12-2009 17:35
I read the MEN and it said channel m will be on Freeview in the new year. I assume that means it stays on Sky and cable too? 
 
seems to be a lot of negativity re channel m?? fills a gap and makes some decent content as far as I can tell. the MENs website is full of channel m video content so they're obviously doing that for the MEN as well.
 42 By Mike, on 21-12-2009 20:37
Carolyn: No, Channel M is NOT on the Freeview platform. Perhaps you'd like to share with How-Do readers what number it's on? 
 
Captain Chaos: I have no axe to grind at all, indeed I'm with Maureen, Channel M fills a gap. But I did see the letter they sent out (I work in PR in the city). Referring to potentially how many new viewers it would have and how much greater exposure it would offer outfits it covers sounds like a boast in my eyes. You're taking it as me criticising them, I wasn't.
 43 By another pr person, on 22-12-2009 12:10
I agree with Mike (also work in PR in the city!). Channel M does seem to make boasts that it can't justify. However that seems to be something that MEN Media generally excels in. In saying that, I wish them success as at least they are providing a service.  
 
If Trinity Mirror do buy them though I can't see them keeping it going as it is something of an albatros...
 44 By Maureen, on 22-12-2009 14:34
god help channel m IF trinity mirror buy up MEN media!! 
They proved with their LIVE TV (news bunny etc) effort that Newspapers trying to run TV stations just doesn't work properly....UNLESS you bring in professional TV people. Probably explains why channel m has hung in there, plenty of TV bods involved with virtually no print hacks f*$king it up!
 45 By Observor, on 22-12-2009 15:23
''Probably explains why channel m has hung in there,Plenty of TV bods involved with virtually no print hacks f*$king it up!'' 
 
It's the MEN's journalism that has kept Channel M afloat, not vice-versa.
 46 By Captain Chaos, on 22-12-2009 16:16
By Observor, on 22-12-2009 16:23 
 
It's the MEN's journalism that has kept Channel M afloat, not vice-versa. 
 
Oh no no no. You couldn't be more wrong if you tried!
 47 By Maureen's saucy sister, on 22-12-2009 17:29
Observor - are you serious??? 
half the channel m slagging off on here is from the MEN print journos!! 
it's a medium they don't understand, don't see the positives and have shown very little inclination to get involved with. Happy to blame it for their cushy jobs becoming redundant though. 
As captain chaos states...the truth is very much different to the picture you paint. (you're not a weekly hack who believes the future is greater pagination are you??) 
 
MEN Media is about content not papers. PAPERS ARE DEAD. content is king.
 48 By Del Boy, on 24-12-2009 08:55
The reason that Channel M isn't on Freeview is that the cheapskate management put all their faith in an in-house whizzkid who said he could build their own transmitter for them. Apparently he ordered all the parts from Exchange & Mart (or some such organ) and guess what! Another Guardian Regional media Group triumph that ends in a f**k up. There is a long history of this sort of think at the MEN - like the anxiously-awaited colour press saga of the 1980s which resulted in two mismatched lumps of old technology being glued together to form a whole that any expert would have condemned out of hand. Guess what! It was done on the cheap but had to be replaced with a "real" one costing 20 times more. MEN mismanagement has a long and undistinguished history and Dodson is keeping up its finest traditions. No wonder editor Horrocks jumped ship in a hurry!!
 49 By Donald, on 24-12-2009 08:56
Maureen's saucy sister, Captain Chaos et al, Channel M's journalism is very much the journalism which comes out of the MEN newsroom, and that is journalism which is aimed primarily at a print product. Why? Because that is where the money still is, and the signs are that the market is recovering. It'll never be what it was, but to suggest that content is king and that print is dead is to ignore the harsh reality of the situation: Content means jack all if it's not making money and at the moment, Channel M isn't making money. It is a drain on the MEN. Here's hoping it does cling on and prove it's worth, and perhaps the first step is stop making it look a cheap American cable channel
 50 By Percy, on 23-12-2009 08:49
This telly-box business will never catch on. Tha's got t'wireless so what more does tha need?
 51 By reader, on 23-12-2009 11:03
GMG have now wrecked the paper anyway! The "supposedly" Manchester "Evening" News is now "incapable" of reporting early morning weather related chaos on the Metrolink system, for a start. You have to wait till the next day for news of that. 
This is a serious problem for the city of MANCHESTER. 
 
(PS: Still no mention in the MEN yet about the possible sale either. Gosh, haven't they heard?)
 52 By Captain Chaos, on 24-12-2009 08:53
By reader, on 23-12-2009 12:03  
(PS: Still no mention in the MEN yet about the possible sale either. Gosh, haven't they heard?) 
 
Because there's nothing confirmed? Other than a vague statement from GMG, it's all rumour and speculation. Not that that would normally get in the way of the MEN writing an article about it! No doubt it's strangled from on high.
 53 By Mike, on 23-12-2009 21:10
Carolyn - I'm a patient guy, but I'm still waiting for you to tell me where I can find Channel M on Freeview.
 54 By George Dearsley website, on 24-12-2009 10:12
Words of great wisdom from ex MEN staffer Ray King in this post. Read, mark, learn & inwardly digest. http://tr.im/IuMs
 55 By John D, on 24-12-2009 11:01
Mike - get a life!
 56 By Captain Chaos, on 24-12-2009 17:15
By Del Boy, on 24-12-2009 09:55 
"The reason that Channel M isn't on Freeview is that the cheapskate management put all their faith in an in-house whizzkid who said he could build their own transmitter for them. Apparently he ordered all the parts from Exchange & Mart (or some such organ) and guess what! Another Guardian Regional media Group triumph that ends in a f**k up." 
 
 
That's a brilliant story Del Boy, you should get into print journalism with an imagination like that. Although from reading between the lines, I'd say you already are an MEN staffer. 
 
From what I gather, the true story is that GMG didn't agree to even start buying the equipment until a couple of weeks ago.
 57 By Carolyn, on 25-12-2009 06:52
What are you talking about Mike????
 58 By Maureen's other sister, a nun., on 25-12-2009 06:52
Captain Chaos - MEN print journalism has kept Northwest Tonight and Granada Reports afloat for years too.
 59 By Scrooge, on 25-12-2009 06:52
What kind of fool would spend Christmas Eve posting their ranting on the How Do website?
 60 By BBC Fan, on 28-12-2009 19:07
By Scrooge, on 25-12-2009 07:52  
What kind of fool would spend Christmas Eve posting their ranting on the How Do website? 
 
A lesser fool than than the one who posts on Christmas Day morning!!! 
 
Meanwhile Maureen's other sister, a nun, is as blinkered as many print journalists with her claims about print feeding TV.  
The MEN is full of press releases re written and tagged EXCLUSIVE before - shock - that hand out is shared with the broadcasters. 
Cheap journalism.
 61 By Scrooge, on 29-12-2009 14:09
Absolutely brilliant. The spectacularly dull-witted BBC Fan reminds me, once again, that so many people are completely and utterly literal. Irony is wasted on them. What's more, trying to explain irony to someone who doesn't get it in the first place is probably a waste of energy, but, for BBC Fan's benefit, here's how irony works; Scrooge notices that someone has been commenting on Christmas Eve. This fact rather tickles Scrooge, and so Scrooge adds a supposedly po-faced, scornful comment on Christmas Day wondering what kind of saddo wastes their time posting on How Do on Christmas Eve....Now do you geddit???? That, my BBC Fan friend, is irony. Look it up - and NOT on Wikipedia, if you don't mind. The only correct response to the Christmas Day Scrooge comment was....none at all. However, I've learned my lesson - I will put one of those dreadful winking emoticon things anytime I write something which is not meant to be taken literally. For the hard-of-thinking, it looks a bit like this ;-)
 62 By BBC Fan, on 29-12-2009 18:31
Irony? Or tragic? A career in comedy surely awaits someone whose humour requires logging on at 0752 on Christmas Day morning and posting your ''ironic'' comments. Work on your one liners - the explanation requires 12 lines. See you at the comedy store... waiting to get in!
 63 By dickens, on 30-12-2009 13:55
Scrooge, I think actually BBC Fan had your number and BBC Fan's one liner was quite amusing. But I'm guessing you come from some kind of print background so therefore have an automatic humour bypass because you are so terribly important. 
 
BBC Fan, while I agree with you on the MEN exclusive point (Yates' Wine Lodge is more exclusive than the average MEN splash), I would point out that often they put "exclusive" on rewritten press releases which have ALREADY been sent to the rest of the media. A pox on all your houses!
 64 By WTF, on 30-12-2009 13:55
anyway, back at the grown-up's table, has there been any further news on this interesting development?
 65 By Brian, on 31-12-2009 08:10
There has been a lot of commentary this past year about Channel M being a draw on the resources of MEN. Given that the MEN is struggling on a constantly eroding route, would it not be best to put its resources firmly into Channel M which at least fills a need that exists and furthermore, can also(at present) only be filled by itself. Unlike the print thing that nobody really rates.
 66 By Scrooge, on 31-12-2009 08:11
Oh....Give. Me. Strength; I bet the two of you also own boxed sets of American Dad and Family Guy and subscribe to Viz...
 67 By BBC Fan, on 31-12-2009 08:34
By Scrooge, on 31-12-2009 09:11  
Oh....Give. Me. Strength; I bet the two of you also own boxed sets of American Dad and Family Guy and subscribe to Viz... 
 
No... But. I. Have. A dictionary that puts a random full stop. After Words
 68 By Scrooge, on 31-12-2009 09:47
Sorry...the signal's breaking up...can't hear you
 69 By BBC Fan, on 01-01-2010 19:19
By Scrooge, on 31-12-2009 10:47  
Sorry...the signal's breaking up...can't hear you 
 
Posting an hour before midnight on New Years Eve on top of your 'ironic' Christmas morning comment. I'm splitting my sides. Please tell me you have a blog where I can follow your humourous asides. It will be so much funnier, and cheaper, than my subscription to Viz. Or better still offer your services to the MEN and Channel M. I'm sure they'll snap up someone as talented as you.
 70 By reader, on 08-01-2010 10:27
Read all about Manchester's record overnight low temperatures, in er, "tomorrow" night's MEN actually!! 
So bringing you yesterday's local morning news, tomorrow evening, is now GMG's "cunning plan" for winning back readers is it??
 71 By Anon, on 26-01-2010 23:17
Lets face it this sale is in some kind of final stages and we will all be hearing about it soon enough. Channel M could have finally drained it's last £££'s and sank a grand ship. I guess on another note it might not be such a bad thing safe guarding the Guardian, at least it's worth reading.
 72 By Anon, on 09-02-2010 12:50
SOLD! well all but Channel M would you believe.

Add your comment
Name
Email (optional)
Website (optional)
Comment

Email me when someone else comments
Anti-spam question (required): 4 + 9 =

 
< Previous story   Next story >
[ Back ]


Beyond 2010
Today's other news
Master Google with UK first at Salford Business School
Dinosaur shows what Manchester's made of
Citrus Suite develops Project Canvas interaction
5 Live launches Northern Development Fund
New media meets old as StuckOn gets CSAhell on the radio
True North promotes Holburne Museum reopening
APS Group wins Family Investments contract
Manchester Matters launches on Monday
MEN deal aids Trinity Mirror performance
Ahoy Creative gives parents a break with Away Without The Kids
Madhouse promotes K3 with naked employees
MOSI turns to London agency kin for interactive gallery
Acrobat thinks Victorian for Gourmet Candy Company brief
Mando Group Labs officially launches
Charles Lawson returns for Coronation Street play
JudgeGill unveils Harrods department for WWRD
 
 
 How-Do Events - click here    How-Do Events - click here
 
Search How-Do
 
 
Most read in the last three days
No move to Salford yet for Peter Salmon (Updated)
Brazen's Robbie Platt joins Weber Shandwick
Why is video taking over the world?
Nickelodeon opens £10m theme park in Blackpool
Rippleffect saddles up for British Horseracing campaign
Paver Smith income up despite public sector hit
Madhouse promotes K3 with naked employees
Gorillaz hit the App store courtesy of Matmi
Stage 9 on track for Preston Trams
Ideal returns to BBC Three
Featured articles
The most comprehensive ever review and assessment of the top communicators and marketers working in public services in the North West: the Public Sector 100. READ
Media 100
The North West’s top marketing folk who collectively control marketing expenditure in excess of £500m and whose endeavours help sustain tens of thousands of jobs. READ
2009media100 The full listing of How-Do's Media 100. The 2009 list in its entirety, offers the definitive compilation of the most influential and powerful media, creative and digital folk based in the North West. READ
 
Contact us now
The How-Do poll
How can traditional publishing firms make money online?
 
Latest comments
Cath: These people should not be allowed to take these roles unless they are 100%... READ
Radio Caroline: But the pettiness is what makes people come to the site. Everyone loves to ... READ
Lorna Kay: The highly inflammatory article by Paul Revoir on page 11 of to-day's Daily... READ
Enough: Also Anonymouse - get down off your high-horse. You threw your two penneth ... READ
Mrs Ackroyd: What a load of numpties GMG are. You wouldn't want them running anything i... READ
Brian: Why do marketeers use 'inspired by' when the word 'evokes' is more believab... READ
How-Do RSS/Twitter

Track How-Do headlines in your RSS reader:

RSS feed

View all of our feeds.

Follow How-Do on Twitter:

How-Do Twitter
 
 
 Media City UK
 
 


 
 
 
Front Page | Jobs | News | How-Do TV | Features | Comment | Rumours | How do they do | How did they do | Blogs | About | Ad Rates | Login | MarketPlace
NEWS BY SECTOR | Publishing | Broadcasting | Marketing Services | Digital Media | Other Media | The Wrap | Polls | How-Do Awards | How-Do Events
 
UKFast - managed dedicated server specialist