BT has announced plans to offer access to the internet without the need to subscribe to a service provider. A trial of the service is to begin in Northern Ireland, prior to a national roll-out in September.Access will operate on a pay-as-you-use basis and is designed to allow people to sample the internet at low-cost… Continue reading BT To Offer Internet Access For All
Regional sales house Amra has announced the appointment of Lisa Bourne as managing director, making her one of few women to reach this level of management amongst media representation operations.One of her first tasks is to alert advertisers to what Amra describes as “the increasing potential and diversity of regional press” and to initiate cross-media… Continue reading Amra Appoints New MD
With only a few months until launch, terrestrial digital broadcaster British Digital Broadcasting (BDB) has appointed a director of sales. Doug Goodwin fills the role with responsibility for subscription sales through retail outlets.Goodwin joins BDB from Sony Computer Entertainment where he also held the position of director of sales.BDB commercial director, Anthony Sethill, says: “We… Continue reading BDB Appoints Director Of Sales
The Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) has finalised it rules in the auditing of bulk sales of national newspapers. This new set of codes is intended to prevent the disputes over bulk sales which have been dogging the ABC for some time (see Bulk Sales Battle Between NI And Mirror Group).The Mirror Group has been… Continue reading ABC Attempts To Put An End To Bulk Sales Bickering
IPC Magazines’ Ideal Home has announced the resignation of its editor-in-chief, Sally O’Sullivan.IPC says that O’Sullivan was instrumental in the magazine’s relaunch in June 1996 which was instigated to ‘turn around its declining sales base’. The title’s circulation, however, has not dramatically improved according to ABC figures.O’Sullivan says: “I have enormously enjoyed my two and… Continue reading Ideal Home Loses Editor-In-Chief
BSkyB has unveiled the logo which will be used to brand all its digital satellite communications businesses. The logo, along with a similarly redesigned corporate image, will be used on Sky as from yesterday.The new digital logo, seen here, was designed by The Clinic from a brief by Sky’s marketing team. It is intended to… Continue reading Sky Unveils Digital Logo
Media and leisure group Granada has today announced half-year pre-tax profits of £274 million, up from £243 million for the same period last year. Turnover for the group was up 12% to £1.93 billion. Earnings per share stood at 21p, up 10%.Charles Allen, chief executive at Granada, said: “The Group continues to fire on all… Continue reading Granada Pre-Tax Profits Up 13% To £274m
A poster ad which read “61% of children aged 12 have had sex” has caused the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) to issue warnings about the use of ‘teaser’ advertisements.The advertisement in question, inviting people to a debate on social issues, went on to state that the statistic was a hypothetical fact of the future. Techniques… Continue reading ASA Is Concerned About Advertisers’ Teasing
Deputy chief executive and group managing director of Mirror Group, Kelvin MacKenzie, is to leave the company to form a bid consortium for Talk Radio.MacKenzie has held the deputy chief executive’s position for only six months. He was brought in to the Group by Mirror chief executive David Montgomery to work on the Live! TV… Continue reading MacKenzie Leaves Mirror Group To Bid For Talk Radio
The Government is to vote today on whether to accept the Clause 19 amendment to the Competition Bill which has been proposed by the Liberal Democrats and peer, Lord McNally (see Lords Revolt In Favour Of Curbing Newspaper Price Cuts).The proposals have been drafted in order to prevent the ‘abuse of a dominant market position’… Continue reading Government To Vote On Predatory Pricing
