Cable & Wireless today demonstrated the benefits of consolidation within the cable industry when it posted pre-tax profits of £151 million for the year ended 31 March 1998, up 110% year on year. Total revenue increased by 12% to £2.283 billion.Referring to the merger (see Cable Companies Merge) between Cable & Wireless, Nynex Cablecomms, Mercury… Continue reading Pre-Tax Profits Rise 110% At C&W
John Mulholland, currently media editor of the Guardian, has been appointed editor of the Sporting Life , the Mirror Group has announced.The 139-year old title, which publishes its final edition as a racing paper tomorrow, will be redesigned and relaunched as an all-sports daily, reappearing at the beginning of October. Its horse racing identity is… Continue reading New Editor For Sporting Life
Emap On Air and Kiss 100 FM have today announced that energy drink Indigo is to sponsor the national dance show Friday Night Kiss in a deal worth £500,000.The sponsorship will include a package of credits throughout the show, as well as promotional trails on all of Emap’s FM stations across the week. It will… Continue reading Emap On Air Signs Indigo As Sponsor
The Independent Television Commission (ITC) is currently running an investigation into claims that a documentary broadcast by Carlton Television about a Colombian drugs cartel contained faked footage and interviews.Following an eighteen month investigation, Guardian journalists ‘exposed’ the programme, The Connection, as an alleged fake earlier this week. The ITC now has to determine to what… Continue reading ITC To Investigate Allegations Of Faked Carlton Documentary
The 1997 IPA Census shows there were 12,700 people employed at 206 IPA member agencies in 1997, compared to 12,800 at 220 IPA member agencies the previous year.A number of advertising agency mergers and acquisitions is reflected in a slightly reduced IPA membership base, but the figures also reveal that ad agencies are becoming larger… Continue reading Agency Employment Figures Fall
The Guardian is to launch a new brand on the internet called The Guardian Unlimited. It is planned that new service will expand on the current site at www.guardian.co.uk and develop individual sites as separate specialist products under the Unlimited brand.Six sites are planned for launch this summer, including a film site, Film Unlimited, and… Continue reading Guardian To Launch New Web Presence
Mirror Group has told its investors that the restructuring of the company, including the £297 million acquisition of Midland Independent Newspapers (see Midland In The Mirror), is paying off. Chairman Sir Robin Clark told the annual meeting that the refocusing of the group’s activities had been “successful”, with cost savings and better trading being achieved.It… Continue reading Mirror Group Benefits From Restructure
http://www.itc.org.ukWhilst the ITC unquestionably provides a very important public service in the regulation of television, its activities and consultations are not really the stuff of excitement – a least not for your average punter. The ITC’s website, which has been recently redesigned, has to be viewed in this light. The Commission’s website is there to… Continue reading Website Of The Week – Independent Television Commission
Emap National Publications has announced that it will be closing its Performance Car magazine and merging it into sister-magazine Car .The July issue will be Performance Car‘s last. The magazine’s ABC has dropped from a high of 67,000 in 1987 to just over 36,000 in 1997. Car, meanwhile, has recently seen its circulation rise to… Continue reading Emap To Close Performance Car Magazine
