Quality Market The quality market showed the largest year on year increase in circulations for June to November with an overall circulation of 2.957 million, up 5% year on year. Among these papers, the Sunday Telegraph and FT performed well with increases of 18% and 9.7% respectively. Papers such as the Daily Telegraph, Sunday Times… Continue reading National Newspaper Round-Up – November
News Direct 97.3FM has secured a twelve month sponsorship deal with Yellow Pages worth £150,000. Yellow Pages is to be associated with the station’s entertainment news bulletins, Entertainment News Direct, of which there are 48 in 24 hours. Special scripts have been prepared by AMV to complement the different editorial content of the various bulletins.Entertainment… Continue reading Yellow Pages To Sponsor News Direct
The Internet arm of Associated Newspapers, Associated New Media (ANM), has just launched what editor Martin Dunn claims is the first totally comprehensive city guide to London. Dunn, former editor of the New York Daily News and Today, says that the This Is London (TIL) site (http://thisislondon.co.uk) is the result of the collation of material… Continue reading Interview – Martin Dunn, Associated New Media
Haymarket’s Campaign magazine will be launching a website next Spring. Campaignlive will be subscription-based and feature news, a diary of events and a debating forum. Readers of the magazine will be charged a subscription rate of £50 while for non-readers it will cost £60.Campaignlive: 0171 413 4297
GWR Group’s new sales operation, Opus, is getting ready to launch on January 1. The outfit will be based at Oxford Circus in London’s West End and handle sales for 40 local FM and AM stations and the national Classic FM.The sales team will report to sales and marketing director Simon Ward and managing director… Continue reading Opus Gets Ready For Launch
After the excitement of last week’s five episodes of Eastenders, and Heartbeat beating everyone to the top of the chart, things are returning to their usual pattern. Coronation Street grabs hold of the top spot once again, with Monday’s episode attracting 18.03 million – well, it was quite a triumph for the oppressed, watching Maud… Continue reading TV Viewing Summary W/E 23/11/97
The first broadcast of an ITV programme live on the Internet, Carlton’s music programme Videotech, has been sponsored by Tower Records. This is the first time Tower Records has sponsored a programme on the World Wide Web.The webcast, which was broadcast on Thursday 27 November at the same time as the programme went out in… Continue reading Tower Records Sponsors Videotech Webcast
Two-thirds (65%) of the British public want the biennial Ryder Cup event added to the list of sports protected from exclusive showing on cable and satellite TV, according to the latest findings from CIA MediaLab’s Sensor survey. Last September, the Ryder Cup was broadcast on Sky with only highlights on the BBC.The findings will add… Continue reading Two-Thirds Of Public Want Full Coverage Of Ryder Cup On Terrestrial TV
The WPP group has launched a website at http://www.wpp.com/. As well as contact and corporate information the site also contains a news and games section.The site will feature as a forthcoming Website of the Week.
http://www.sportsweb.com/The new Reuters SportsWeb site is dubbed the first global sports site on the Internet. Drawing on Reuters extensive news-gathering tendrils, SportsWeb does indeed feature a very impressive amount of sporting information across a large number of sports. The homepage currently focuses on the run-up to next year’s World Cup in France but presumably will… Continue reading Website Of The Week – SportsWeb
