Sky High charts the emergence and subsequent progress of arguably the UK’s most radical and revolutionary broadcaster, BSkyB. From losses of £14 million a week in 1990 to pre-tax profits of £300 million in 1997 (£10 a second), Horsman reveals an intriguing “cast of characters” and delves into the intricate wheeling and dealing involved in… Continue reading Book Review – Mathew Horsman’s Sky High
Internet Business Magazine has announced a covermount promotion which will see it giving away the 1998 Internet Business Yearbook with issue 13 of the magazine, dated February 1998. The 200-page guide to putting businesses on the Net has not previously been available to members of the public.The title is also giving away the 4-part Global… Continue reading Internet Business Cover Promotion
The Observer is to launch a new section, Work, covering current attitudes to the workplace by investigating both the professional and social aspects of the world of work.Work is to be a pull-out supplement to the Business section of the Sunday newspaper and will feature senior appointments as well as editorial. The appointments will be… Continue reading Observer Starts The Year With Work
The Independent Television Commission has revoked the Local Delivery Licence granted for Shrewsbury at the request of the licensee, Shropshire Cable and Telecoms Limited.The licence was granted by the ITC in November 1995. It will be readvertised if expressions of interest are made to the Commission by potential applicants.Shropshire Cable, a subsidiary of the US… Continue reading ITC Revokes Cable Licence
The Sunday Telegraph again put in a strong performance with a July-December year on year increase of 14% to take its sales to 887,204 while the FT grew by an impressive 10.7% to 328,793 copies sold. This is almost 70,000 more copies than the Independent which fell 1.8% to 260,223.Among the titles whose circulation fell,… Continue reading National Newspaper ABC Summary – December
Following the hive of activity of the last couple of days as IPC Magazines was bought by venture capitalists Cinven and announced the restructuring of its management teams, chief executive Mike Matthew has confirmed his ‘vision’ for the magazine group to take it into 2000.The UK’s largest publisher of consumer magazines is planning to add… Continue reading IPC Envisages 100 Titles BY 2000
The Saturday edition of the Daily Telegraph will this weekend reveal its new look.Three new stand-alone sections will appear: Sport, Money-Go-Round and Travel will join the Weekend, Motoring, Arts & Books, TV and Radio and Young Telegraph supplements.Subscribers can access the Press Planner database by selecting “Press” from the drop-down box at the top of… Continue reading Saturday Telegraph To Launch New Look
News International has increased the cover-price of the Times‘ Monday edition from 10p to 20p.Since the cut-price copy was introduced in June 1996 the paper’s circulation has increased from 753,784 to 802,147. The financial cost of this strategy has been rumoured to be around £30 million per year.
http://www.a2btravel.com/While Condé Nast’s Traveller site (http://www.cntraveller.co.uk/) provides a wealth of editorial information, from travel articles and travellers’ personal diaries to city histories and world news stories, Emap Online’s a2b Travel is the logistical key to getting to these far-flung, exotic locations (or, if you prefer, a B&B trip to Bridlington).The basis of a2b Travel is… Continue reading Website Of The Week – a2b Travel
The cable firm consortium On Demand Management, now going under the market name of Front Row, is set to launch the cable industry’s first pay-per-view movie service next month. Having just signed a third film studio deal with Buena Vista International Television today, the group is compiling material to offer a film service which it… Continue reading Cable Consortium Seals Buena Vista Deal
