The Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) has named former GCap Media communications director Jane Wilson as its new CEO.Wilson, originally from Glasgow, has spent the last six months as communications director at ticket website Seatwave... Read more
GCap Media has called off plans to sell its XFM Manchester and XFM Scotland radio stations, but will go ahead with the sale of XFM South Wales.It was announced in February that GCap would sell its three regional XFM offerings, or hand back... Read more
Gcap has announced the appointment of three marketing agencies to help with the repositioning of Glasgow-based radio station Beat 106 as Xfm Scotland. Newhaven has been named as the station’s creative advertising agency, with Euro RSCG Biss... Read more
GCap Media, the parent company of Glasgow-based Beat 106, has announced that it is to rebrand the station as Xfm Scotland from the beginning of next year. The company unveiled its plans to extend the Xfm brand into Scotland last week as part of a... Read more
Hugh Murray, regional operations director based at Glasgow’s Beat 106, is set to move to the South of England following the merger between Capital Radio Group and GWR. As part of the formation of the new GCap Media group, Murray is to become... Read more
Following the news that Global Radio is to rebrand XFM Scotland as Galaxy Scotland, the announcement has been made that Cheryl Levington, former head of GCap sales in the regions is to become its launch director. Meanwhile, Kiron Willacy has been... Read more
GCap Media has relented on plans to sell all of its regional XFM stations, following its £375million buyout by Global Radio.Following GCap's £375million buyout by Global Radio, the firm revealed to staff yesterday that it had relented... Read more
Xfm marketing director Stuart Duncan is set to join Edinburgh-based agency Multiply, as his former colleages are informed that the Scottish station will no longer be sold. Duncan will take on the role of account director at the marketing and... Read more
Ofcom has announced that GCap’s XFM bid has won the battle for the new Manchester FM licence – beating Emap’s rival Kerrang! rock bid.The announcement follows three months of decision making by Ofcom that saw 19 bids from major... Read more
Under the plans GCap will close theJazz and Planet Rock and dispose of, or if necessary, hand back to Ofcom the Xfm licences in Scotland, Manchester and South Wales, all as soon as 28 March 2008. Read more
