M&C Saatchi has launched a website at http://www.mcsaatchi.com. The site, designed by web development company TW2, contains information about the company along with contacts and access to the M&C Saatchi Village. It is best viewed using Netscape 3.0.The site will be featured in a forthcoming Website of the Week.
IPC will be launching Country Life Gardens, a one-off “celebration of classic Country Life gardens”, on 18 May.The 148-page glossy will be themed around four seasons of “inspiration” and feature gardens from the Country Life library along with new material and in-depth features.Publisher Evelyn Webster says: “Country Life Gardens will reflect the style, vibrancy and… Continue reading IPC Launches One-Off Magazine
BBC director general John Birt has expressed concern that the advent of digital and pay-per-view television will cause a massive divide in the television viewing population, with the UK’s national identity and culture being harmed. Birt, speaking at the European Tele-Visual Conference in Birmingham, commented: “we will see the emergence of the information rich and… Continue reading Birt Claims Risk Of Digital ‘Underclass’
Saatchi & Saatchi has announced that it will be appointing Ian Irvine as a non-executive director with effect from 1 May 1998. He is currently chairman of Capital Radio.Cordiant Communications meanwhile has appointed Dr Rolf Stomberg as a non-executive director. He retired from the main board of BP at the end of last year and… Continue reading Saatchi and Cordiant Announce New Directors
Scottish Media Group and BSkyB today announced that their jointly-owned Sky Scottish cable and satellite channel will be closing on 31 May. This is due to the channel not meeting the financial targets set when it launched in November 1996 (subscribers see STV Announces New Channel).It is expected that the close-down of Sky Scottish will… Continue reading Sky Scottish To Close
A new personal web organiser has launched to compliment search engines such as Yahoo! and AltaVista. By catergorising websites found it removes the need to memorise often complicated homepage addresses. The system, called My Taxi, has been developed to remove the need to waste time trying to get all the dots and slashes in the… Continue reading Travel The World Wide Web In Your Own Taxi
Channel 4 has launched its new Spring and Summer schedule with a line-up of themed nights and dedicated seasons.All things Scouse are to be covered in the channel’s ‘A Night On The Mersey’ which will feature a curtain-raiser to the latest Brookside five-nighter in which a gas explosion threatens more lives. This starts on Easter… Continue reading C4 Schedules More Themed Nights For Spring/Summer
Broker Merrill Lynch has predicted that Capital Radio’s interim results will show an 8% increase in profits to £18.3 million. Earnings per share are expected to be up 16.4%. Merrill Lynch also predicts that Capital’s gross annual profit will reach £110.9 million by the year 2000.Radio advertising is predicted to be up 10% in the… Continue reading Capital Radio Interim Profits Predicted To Be £18.3m
Cable company Telewest Communications has been issued a formal warning from the Independent Television Commission (ITC) due to repeated failures in its compliance responsibilities for local advertisements (local avails).Contracts between a cable operator and programme supplier permit the cable company to insert local advertisements into the supplier’s programme signal. According to the ITC, in December… Continue reading ITC Warns Telewest Over Compliance Failures
United News & Media (UNM) has been granted an injunction to take the future British Digital Broadcasting (BDB) chief executive, Stephen Grabiner to court.UNM has been seeking to prevent Grabiner from working until his contract at UNM formally expires. He left the company for BDB at the beginning of the year.The injunction was granted at… Continue reading UNM To Take Grabiner To Court
