Politicians and other well-known public figures are to present Powerhouse, Channel 4’s new weekday political programme. The list of presenters includes Virginia Bottomley MP, Liz Forgan and (Lord) Roy Hattersley when the show returns next week.Powerhouse is broadcast every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday 11:30am, and is made for Channel 4 by ITN. The presenter will… Continue reading Politicians To Run Powerhouse
Cabal Communications has defended its just-launched lads’ mag, front, following reports that Nationwide Building Society had decided to drop out of the advertising schedule. It is understood that Nationwide thought that there was too high a sexual element running through the title.Cabal says that discussions with the building society were only at a preliminary stage… Continue reading Cabal Defends Front As Nationwide Pulls Advertising
BBC1’s decision to screen the film Seven as a spoiler against ITV’s Reckless, has ended with both programmes failing to attract more than 9 million viewers. Seven, which starred Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman and a headless Gwyneth Paltrow, was watched by 8.7 million viewers. Over on ITV the conclusion of Reckless attracted 9 million people.Channel… Continue reading TV Viewing Summary W/E 11/10/98
Manchester United has hit back at the group of shareholders calling on City institutions to reject BSkyB’s offer for the football club. The media giant made the bid back in August, offering £625 million for the club (see Newsline)Campaigning group Shareholders United Against Murdoch (SUAM) urged investors to hold on to their shares as they… Continue reading BSkyB And Manchester United Create Controversy
Dennis Publishing’s Maxim has poached Chris Maillard, managing editor at Top Gear, to become the magazine’s new editor. Maillard will join next month, and fills the space left by previous editor, Nigel Ambrose, who left recently for ‘personal reasons’.In the latest set of consumer magazine ABCs, Maxim reported the strongest relative growth in the men’s… Continue reading Top Gear Editor Moves To Maxim
The ITC has decided that Channel One Liverpool and the Performance Channel should be exempted from the prohibition on minimum carriage requirements (MCRs) for the duration of their current contracts.In June the ITC removed MCRs for existing analogue cable and satellite channels by 1 January 2000, with the exception of those channels already restricting themselves… Continue reading Channel One And Performance Exempt From MCR Removal
ITV2, ITV’s digital network to be launched in December (see Newsline), has awarded a third of its programme commissions to independents. ITV are believed to be ‘furious’ at this decision – the group is footing the bill for the digital service and had hoped to maximise its commissions in order to recoup start-up costs. S4C… Continue reading Newsline Brief
The Periodical Publishers Association (PPA) is to hold its third Digital Production Conference on 4 November at Grosvenor House. The global impact of digital production on magazine publishing is to be the focus of discussion, and the meeting will be chaired by Martin Bloomfield of Reed Business Information.Other than the main sessions, the conference will… Continue reading PPA Digital Production Conference
The weekly reach of all BBC stations increased by 1.4% this quarter to 26.6 million, a slightly larger increase than all commercial stations, which saw a rise of 1.2% year on year. During the summer period, both Talk Radio and Virgin saw healthy increases in weekly reach, of 11.2 and 18.6 percent respectively.Radio 4 saw… Continue reading Q3 RAJAR – National Stations
The advertising agency Ammirati Puris Lintas has appointed Susanna Hailstone board account director.Hailstone was behind the ‘hello boys’ Wonderbra campaign, and will be working on Lever Europe, Interflora and new business projects at APL. She will report to Chris Thomas, the agency’s chief executive.APL recently lost its chairman in the form of Andrew Cracknell, who… Continue reading APL Acquires New Director
