The first website for The Annual London Film Festival is to be produced by The Guardian. Already live at www.lff.org.uk, the site is intended to help festival-goers to navigate their way around all of the films featured at the festival, and will expand until the festival starts on 5 November.The site will deliver interviews by… Continue reading The Guardian Puts London Film Festival Online
Following IPC Magazine’s acquisition of Link House Media yesterday (see Newsline), IPC’s chief executive, Mike Matthew, has announced some senior management changes at Link House Magazines.Link House managing director, Peter Cosgrove, is to depart, and Simon Owen, of IPC’s Country and Leisure Group, becomes general manager.Mike Matthew commented on the restructure: “Link House joins the… Continue reading Restructuring At IPC’s Link House
Hopes of further cuts in interest rates have been raised after it emerged that the keenest advocate of high rates at the Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee switched his vote to demand a cut in September.Minutes of last month’s meeting, where rates were frozen at 7.5%, showed that while the MPC voted 7-2 in… Continue reading Bank Hardliner’s Switch Raises Interest Rate Cut Hopes
Discussions are under way on a global accord on an international email preference service, which would enable email address holders to register with a national database accessible to users of commercial email. Direct marketing bodies will be meeting in the USA later this month to consider proposals for the international framework.
Future Publishing announced some further appointments this week, following its creation of an advertising director on Friday (see Newsline).David Roberts has been moved to the role of international development publisher, and David Lilley has been made contract publisher.John Weir becomes publisher of Future’s online business, FutureNet, and both Jackie Garford and Rob Price move up… Continue reading Internal Changes At Future
Vice-President of the EP, Georgios Anastassopoulos (Gr, EPP) has recommended that the EP adopts rules to ensure the rights of TV and broadcasting services in respect of satellite and cable. In a report to be presented to the EP, MEPs are expected to vote in favour of measures to govern the use of decoders and… Continue reading EU: Satellite TV and decoders
Worldwide market research company, Taylor Nelson Sofres, has bought video research specialists Media Vision Research (MVR). TNSofres currently operates the BARB TV viewing measurement research, which is the basis for MVR’s VideoTrak data.Nic Lewisohn, MVR’s UK and Ireland director, said: “The video and its related industries will now benefit from one of the world’s largest… Continue reading Taylor Nelson Buys Video Research Group
NTL is to be responsible for building the national transmitter network for commercial digital radio, which will provide interactive services as well as musical content. NTL part owns Digital One (with Talk Radio and GWR), which was yesterday awarded the national digital radio license by the Radio Authority (see Newsline).The group will provide all encoding,… Continue reading NTL To Create Digital Radio Network
Leicester City football club has confirmed that it is in talks with Diamond Cable, its local cable company, which is owned by NTL, about a possible joint venture when the Premiership TV rights expire with Sky in 2001 (see Newsline). In the meantime however, the club stressed it was committed to the present contract, but… Continue reading Football And Media Update
www.telegraph.co.ukThe Electronic Telegraph is, quite simply, an enormous site with hundreds of pages, so my advice to you is to head straight for the site plan on arrival. This tool has alphabetically listed links and descriptions of all the destinations on the site, and should make your wanderings that more comprehensive and less random.To be… Continue reading Website Of The Week – The Electronic Telegraph
