Catenae Innovation

Events

Since Milestone’s admission to the AIM on 1 July 2003, the company has progressed from a radio, publishing and television provider^[1] to a digital media and technology company. The following events mark that progression:

Oil Productions Ltd t/a Relative

A creative agency.

Disorder Magazine

A fashion and music-orientated youth magazine.

Nexstar

A technology provider, within the employee recognition, employee performance, customer loyalty and reward and product promotions market segments.

Mobile Business Solutions

A provider of mobile management tools incorporating:

• OnSide – A mobile-managed monitoring tool for sports organisations.
• OnGuard – A mobile-managed reporting tool used within the security and man-guarding sectors.

Television channels

The Milestone Group had one television channel:

• Six TV (originally The Oxford Channel; operated through Oxford Broadcasting) - was a "free-to-air" channel available in Oxford and Southampton. It closed in 2009.^[13]

Radio stations

The Milestone Group used to outright own three local radio stations in the UK under the Passion Radio branding. One was sold between 2005 & 2006, while the other two were shut down:

• Passion 107.9 - local radio station for the Oxfordshire area (Now under the ownership of Passion Radio (Oxford) Limited; now known as Jack FM 2 Oxfordshire, but referred to on-air as "Jack 2").
• Fusion 107.3 - local radio station for Lewisham (and, on-air, Bromley and Croydon) (Sold to Sunrise Radio Group & re-branded "Time 107.3", then "South London Radio"; ceased operations 4 April 2009)
• Millenium 106.8 - local radio stations for the Thamesmead area (Eventually taken over by Fusion Radio Holdings, who then re-branded it as "Time 106.8", then was sold to Sunrise Radio Group; ceased operations 4 April 2009)

It also held stake in four other radio stations alongside the stations' other investors. Eventually, Milestone's stake in these was sold off between 2005 & 2006:

• Kestrel FM (54%) - local radio station for Basingstoke and the surrounding area of north Hampshire. (Sold to the Tindle Radio Group, then Celador; now known as The Breeze (Basingstoke)
• Kick FM (51%) - local radio station for West Berkshire, broadcast from Newbury. (Sold to the Tindle Radio Group, then Andover Sound, then eventually Celador; now known as The Breeze (Newbury).)
• Reading 107 FM (37%) - local radio station for the Reading area of Berkshire (originally owned by a consortium, then taken over by Guardian Media Group, before finally sold to Madejski Communications Ltd.; now known as 107 JACK FM (Berkshire))
• 107.1 Rugby FM (52%) - local radio station for the Rugby area of Warwickshire (Sold to CN Group, then Quidem).

Newspapers & Magazines

The Milestone Group used to own multiple publications through its former Tri-Media Publishing subsidiary, ten of them under the Courier Newspapers brand:

• Auto Weekly - information on the buying and selling of cars in Oxfordshire.
• Breakout! - published immediately before school holidays, a publication distributed in primary schools to children.
• South Oxfordshire Courier - free newspaper for southern Oxfordshire, formerly "Courier Journal".
• Oxford Journal - free newspaper for northern and central Oxfordshire, formerly "Oxford City Journal".
• Oxfordshire Living - free monthly publication distributed in Oxfordshire.
• Property Weekly - free publication advertising property for sale in Oxfordshire.
• Oxford Courier - free newspaper for Oxfordshire
• Thames Valley Life - monthly lifestyle magazine for Thames Valley
• Basingstoke Property Weekly - weekly supplement distributed with the Basingstoke Observer by real estate agents in northern Hampshire.
• West Berkshire News - free newspaper for West Berkshire.

Another was operated in association with then local radio station Kestrel FM in 2000:

• Basingstoke Observer - local free newspaper in Basingstoke

Auto Weekly & Property Weekly are currently owned by The Oxfordshire Guardian Group, operated in conjunction with the Oxfordshire Guardan.

The South Oxfordshire Courier, after coming under the ownership of the paper's managing director in 2006, was retired in 2008 in favor of the branding of its sister publication, the Oxford Journal, which itself was retired soon afterwards, before being re-launched in 2012 under Taylor Newspapers, but was once again retired for the second & final time in 2014 in favor of an extension to the Oxfordshire Guardian.

Breakout!, Oxfordshire Living, Oxford Courier, Thames Valley Life, & Basingstoke Property Weekly are no longer published.

Basingstoke Observer was sold in a management buyout in September 2006. Following several changes in ownership, it now operates under the ownership of Taylor Newspapers. In June 2015, the Observer brand was extended to publications in Newbury & Thatcham.