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Well, we’ve made it through the annual onslaught of Christmas specials, and despite the noticeable absence of Only Fools & Horses on Terrestrial TV, things weren’t too bad. On the comedy front, the BBC wheeled out all their other traditional Christmas crackers. Leading the way, One Foot In The Grave attracted 15.76 million, another classic… Continue reading TV Viewing Summary W/E 28/12/97
Live TV today announced that it has taken back the national sales for the channel as part of the launch of the Cable Advertising Sales Company later this month.The cable-only channel’s national airtime was previously sold by Laser Satellite and Cable but Live now believes it sells enough airtime to go it alone. CASC will… Continue reading Live TV Launches Sales House
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