ABC //electronic has released the figures for the PA NewsCentre website for July 1998, during which period the site recorded an increase in traffic of 34% with 6,282,269 page impressions.The PA NewsCentre website provides news, sport, entertainment and technology updated throughout the day. Mark Hird, new media director at PA, said: “We are continually adding… Continue reading PA NewsCentre Website Shows Traffic Increase
Carlton Online launches Popcorn.co.uk today, which is a film website featuring searchable listings of what’s going on in the cinemas nationwide, as well as news and gossip from the movieworld. Film reviews, pictures and video trailers will also be showcased on the site.Popcorn.co.uk will be the first website to be advertised in cinemas nationwide, and… Continue reading Carlton Launches Second Website Of The Month
Quality Market The total circulation across the broadsheet market in October 1998 was down by 3.6% and only two of the quality titles increased their circulation, which were The Financial Times and The Sunday Times’. The Independent had the biggest fall in circulation, losing a considerable 16.3%.The Sunday Times has the highest overall circulation of… Continue reading National Newspaper ABC Round-Up – October 1998
Freeserve, the free internet service provider (ISP) launched by Dixons in September (see Dixons Launches Free Internet Service), is claiming a resounding success having attracted more than 475,000 accounts in the first two months.Unlike other ISPs, Freeserve does not charge its customers any monthly rental, nor is there an hourly usage charge. The Freeserve software… Continue reading Dixons Claims Record Breaking Growth For Freeserve
Regional newspaper and convenience store group Portsmouth & Sunderland has reported a 62% leap in pre-tax profits and said it was well placed to cope with an economic slowdown.The publisher of newspapers such as the Portsmouth News and the Sunderland Echo , said it relied less on recruitment advertising than many rivals, meaning it would… Continue reading Portsmouth & Sunderland Confident In Face Of Economic Downturn
IPC Magazines has today announced that it is closing its women’s weekly magazine, Eva after four years. The title was relaunched in March this year to ‘form a bridge’ between the young women’s market and the women’s weeklies sector (see Changes At Eva And IPC Yachting Portfolio).IPC’s managing director, Linda Lancaster-Gaye, said: “When we undertook… Continue reading IPC Closes Eva Following Unsuccessful Relaunch
The long-drawn-out saga over the future of the media buying agency Media Business Group has come nearer to a conclusion when a US company launched an agreed takeover bid worth nearly £28 million.Grey Advertising is set to buy the group – known as TMBG for short – which buys newspaper advertising space and TV airtime… Continue reading Media Business In £28 Million Takeover Deal
The first digital terrestrial television (DTT) service was launched by ONdigital yesterday, the company joint-owned by ITV groups Carlton Communications and Granada. The service was modestly unveiled by the illumination of its Crystal Palace transmitter in London.A spokesman for ONdigital described the launch as ‘brilliant’ this afternoon saying a Radio Rentals shop sold twenty set-top… Continue reading ONdigital Takes To The Air
The Times’ decision to serialise Gitta Sereny’s book on Mary Bell, ‘Cries Unheard’ is discussed in the Press Complaints Commission’s latest report.There is no doubt that the serialisation was lawful, the question is rather whether it contravened the far more rigorous requirements of the newspapers’ and magazines’ Code of Practice – that is whether the… Continue reading Complaints Against Mary Bell Serialisation Not Upheld
Telecommunications group, Cable & Wireless Communications, has unveiled a £600 million expansion programme in Europe – creating as many as 1,000 jobs.The scheme is aimed at bringing the latest network technology to 40 European cities in 13 different countries. The network will combine voice and Internet connections and will link with the US Internet business… Continue reading Cable & Wireless Plans £600m European Expansion
