IPC undergoes restructure on Women's and TV weeklies

LONDON - IPC has re-jigged publishing responsibilities at its mass-market women's and TV weeklies division IPC Connect.

Gale: publishing director of Now, Woman's Weekly and Soaplife
Gale: publishing director of Now, Woman's Weekly and Soaplife

The reorganisation follows a restructure of the unit in November, which saw the TV listings arm, TX, moved into the mass-market women's division, IPC Connect.

Sandy Gale, previously publishing director of Now, Woman's Own and Chat, becomes publishing director of Now, Woman's Weekly and Soaplife.

Angela O'Farrell, previously responsible for What's on TV, TVTimes, TV & Satellite Week, TV easy and Soaplife, takes on the role of publishing director of Chat, What's on TV, and TV easy.

Oswin Grady, previously responsible for Woman, newly launched goodtoknow Recipes, Pick Me Up and Woman's Weekly, is now publishing director of Woman, goodtoknow Recipes, and TV & Satellite Week.

Niall Clarkson becomes publishing director of Pick Me Up, Woman's Own and TVTimes. Clarkson was previously general manager of IPC Focus, part of IPC Inspire, and prior to that he was a publisher within IPC Connect.

Julie Lavington continues in her role as publishing director of Look.

Fiona Dent said: "This re-organisation of publishing responsibilities places Connect in the best possible position to benefit from the wealth of talent and experience we have in the division, enabling us to better serve our audience of mass market women and our advertising partners."

IPC's main titles in the TV listings sector, TV Times, TV Easy and TV & Satellite Week, all suffered year-on-year circulation declines in the last round of ABCs for the period January to June 2009.

TV Times dropped 7.6 per cent year on year to 311,307, TV Easy fell 12.8% to 201,728 and TV & Satellite Week took a 2.4 per cent year-on-year fall. Soaplife, however, had a 7.7 per cent rise to its circulation.

In the mass-market women's sector, Look was up 2.6 per cent year on year in the women's market but Now, which underwent a relaunch last year, saw a sharp fall of 14 per cent in its circulation.

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