There is something gratingly trite about the opening editorial of the first issue of So in which editor Kirsty Robinson writes, “So is for women who party, work to party and shop to party… Basically it’s like this, you can never have too many girl friends, pairs of shoes or tequila slammers. They’re the rules.”… Continue reading First Issue Review – So
Capital Radio has put its 13% stake in GWR up for sale. The placing will raise around £28m for the London radio group. The move coincides with GWR’s decision to move its national sales team to one central London site alongside the Classic FM sales operation (see today’s GWR Announces New Sales Operation).Capital Radio: 0171… Continue reading Capital Sells GWR Stake
Newsquest has announced details of its flotation plan which will see around £100m of extra funds being raised. The float, due to take place on October 23, would see the regional publisher valued at £540m, with shares being offered for between 250p and 290p.Newsquest is now thought to be on the look-out for acquisitions in… Continue reading Newsquest Raises £100m And Looks To Expand
Sunday Business advertisement director, Peter Gould, has announced that Vicki Beazley has joined the paper as advertisement manager. Beazley moves from the Evening Standard‘s ES Magazine and Hot Tickets where she held the same role.The new Sunday Business commercial team has been built from scratch following European Press Holdings’ take-over of the title on 26… Continue reading New Advertisement Manager Joins Sunday Business
Chief executive of ITV Richard Eyre, and director of programmes David Liddiment, have promised a new programming and scheduling strategy in an attempt to halt declining viewing figures.The announcement was made at the ITV 98 presentation for advertisers and agencies where Ricahrd Eyre asked for a hundred days to implement the strategy. A progress report… Continue reading ITV Heads Promise New Schedule
Cordiant today announced the demerger plans which will see it split into two separately listed companies – Saatchi & Saatchi plc and Cordiant Communications Group plc. The new shares will appear on the stock market on 15 December while Bob Seelert will become chief executive of the Saatchi & Saatchi group and Michael Bungey will… Continue reading Cordiant Confirms Demerger Plans
In order to fully implement digital terrestrial broadcasting (DTT) some television sets will have to be retuned to prevent clashes between the analogue and digital signals.British Digital Broadcasting, who were granted the contract to broadcast DTT from the ITC in June, will have to retune what they describe as a very small number of homes,… Continue reading BDB Will Have To Retune Television Sets
CIA Medianetwork UK has announced that its managing director, Mike Tunnicliffe, has decided to leave the company. Mike Elms, CIA’s chairman and chief executive, is assuming the role of managing director with immediate effect and there are currently no plans to recruit a replacement.Mike Elms says that CIA will be using the opportunity to initiate… Continue reading Managing Director Leaves CIA Medianetwork
Following the closure of Capital Radio’s sales house, Media Sales & Marketing (subscribers see Capital Restructures Sales), GWR has decided to establish its own national sales team to service its local radio brands. This sales operation is to co-locate with Classic FM in London in order to keep the sales team in close proximity to… Continue reading GWR Announces New Sales Operation
After much speculation Manchester United today confirmed that it will be launching its own TV channel in partnership with Granada and BSkyB.The digital channel, to be called MUTV, will be a subscription service and is scheduled to launch in Autumn 1998. It will broadcast six hours per-day in prime-time.The channel will offer live and recorded… Continue reading Man United Channel Confirmed
