Several companies had cancelled their advertising contracts on his Morning programme and high-profile guests said they would no longer appear. The move came just hours after Mr Imus broadcast his last show on Thursday. US television and radio network CBS has fired broadcaster Don Imus after an explosive row over his use of racist language on his radio programme. Its publishers said teenagers were increasingly turning to new platforms like the internet to satisfy their interest in music. The move follows the closure of Smash Hits magazine in 2006 after 28 years. Ten of the magazine's 14 staff have been made redundant. "Which makes continuation impossible for us - however brutal a rush to judgement that may seem." "But the data tells us we have achieved a little over 15% of that," Mr Styles said.
Management had targeted a long-term circulation of 40,000 and launch sales of around 60,000. "The industry wanted it, the news trade wanted it, the market was there according to every group we asked - but come the acid test the readers were absent." Mr Styles said: "Every piece of research we did, every dummy we created and the concept in all its forms was fantastically received from first to last. The magazine had been in development for more than a year and had been heavily trailed on TV, radio and the internet. The magazine, priced £1.49, was aimed at 16-24 year olds and focused on indie, pop, rock, emo and R&B. The first issue of the music magazine, which was linked with Channel 4's Popworld show, had an initial print run of 130,000 copies but sold just 9,000.ĭarren Styles of the Brooklands Group publishers said: "The magazine has bombed in a way nobody connected with it could ever have envisaged." Popworld Pulp magazine has closed after just one week because of poor sales. In the true spirit of Independent and local radio we wish Afan FM a long successful future!
The station (brainchild of Craig Williams, Young Person of The Year and one of the most able chaps you're likely to meet) began a few years broadcasting its menu of indie alternative and support for local new music in a series of trial broadcastsĬheck out their impressive new website and ponder a big first sales success Afan FM is the Official Radio Station of the Swansea Bay Film Festival 2007, whisking it from established broadcasters Swansea Sound and The Wave (owned by Ulster TV), Swansea Bay Radio (led by former Virgin MD Jason Bryant) and for that matter Real Radio (owned by Guardian Media Group). The day when Afan FM becomes ongoing radio reality. Not in Cardiff or Swansea, Wrexham, Aberystwyth or Newport but in down town Port Talbot. Friday 20th April, South Wales radio revolution begins.