Saturday saw the launch of a new package for the Guardian , with two new supplements appearing alongside a revamped Week section.Following the lead of Saturday’s Daily Telegraph, the paper now has dedicated travel and sports sections and The Week becomes Saturday. As well as changing its name, The Week now becomes more focused, benefitting… Continue reading Review: The Saturday Guardian
Associated New Media’s Soccernet website achieved over 12 million page impressions in March according to the latest audit by ABC //electronic. The site, at http://www.soccernet.com/, recorded 12,617,704 page impressions for the audit period 1 March – 31 March 1998.Soccernet editor, Greg Hadfield, claims that this audit demonstrates that the site is one of the busiest… Continue reading Soccernet Audience Grows By 60% In 3 Months
Cinema admissions showed a year on year fall for March, the first drop since February last year. According to latest data from CAA/EDI, average weekly admissions fell 2.6% to 2.62 million while total admissions dropped to 11.584 million.Subscribers can access the Cinema database by selecting “Cinema” from the drop-down box at the top of this… Continue reading Admissions Blow For Cinema Industry
Maiden Group has today announced the acquisition of Adlight Limited, the poster company which owns over 3,000 six sheet ad panels in supermarkets across the UK, for £15 million.Adlight’s pre-tax profits for last year were £540,000 on turnover of £3.8m. These figures do not, however, include the 2,000 panels which were constructed during 1997. The… Continue reading Maiden Buys Adlight
The much-maligned Eye section of the Independent is about to be axed, probably in favour of a broadsheet supplement covering business and sport. Michael Crozier, who had designed the original Independent, is now back on board the paper after working for Independent Newspapers on various projects before it bought the title (subscribers see Independent Gets… Continue reading Revamp Planned For Indy Second Section
WPP has announced a 13% real terms increase in quarter 1 revenues to £418.7 million, though the strength of sterling reduced the reportable growth to 8%. Net new business billings of £403m were won during the first quarter.In terms of WPP’s regional businesses, the UK showed the greatest growth with an increase in revenue of… Continue reading Revenues Rise At WPP
Publishing group Reed Elsevier is planning to invest £990 million in an expansion of its US legal information business.US publishing giant, Times Mirror Company, announced today that it was to sell to Reed both its Matthew Bender & Company business and its 50% stake in Shepard’s Company. Reed already holds the other 50% of Shepard’s.Reed… Continue reading Reed Elsevier To Spend £990m On US Expansion
The Easter Weekend this year brought us the departure of Kaff Mitchell of the Caff. Eastenders pushed itself to four episodes, including a one hour special on Good Friday. Kaff’s final bow has to be one of the most drawn out departures in recent soap history; even Hilda Ogden seemed to slip silently into the… Continue reading TV Viewing Summary W/E 12/04/98
http://www.independent.co.uk/Although The Independent‘s website receives fewer visitors than any of the other national newspaper’s online versions (according to their own statement), it is probably the best-designed and clearest of all those sites on offer on the Net at the moment (much like the printed daily paper holds a smaller readership than the other broadsheets but,… Continue reading Website Of The Week – The Independent
Stephen Grabiner, the outgoing United News & Media chairman, has been released by the media group to begin working at British Digital Broadcasting as chief executive.It has emerged that legal wrangles (subscribers see UNM To Take Grabiner To Court) over Grabiner’s move have now been dropped. As part of the reconciliation deal BDB and UNM… Continue reading United Link-Up With BDB In Grabiner Deal
