The 1997 Aerial Awards for radio advertising creativity awarded Scotland’s Leith Agency a double win on 21 October. The agency’s Irn Bru commercial first clinched the Food & Drink category award, polling 74 per cent of the votes, and then went on to beat off all the other category winners to take an overall gold.… Continue reading Leith Agency Takes Gold Award
The Cartoon Network has launched a Website. It can be found at http://www.cartoon-network.co.uk.
Revenue According to agency estimates total terrestrial TV revenue for September came in at £212.54 million. Of this ITV brought in £156.71m, up 10.5% year on year, and C4 £46.8m, up 8.8%: this puts the revenue ratio between the two at 77:23. There was a large month on month revenue increase at C5, where there… Continue reading TV Round-Up – September
MediaTel today completed its transition on to the Internet with the release of Version 1 of the new Radio Database.Using the same layout and design of the other MediaTel sections, the Radio Database allows users to search for their desired station or stations by a variety of methods and then bring up a variety of… Continue reading Radio Database Goes Live
Mediapolis has won the Grand Prix prize for its Orange campaign at the 1997 Media Week Awards. The campaign also won gold for multimedia campaign of the year. Western International Media was awarded gold for best long-term media campaign and best media effectiveness for its Jack Daniel’s campaign.
Current controller of children’s and youth programmes Vanessa Chapman has announced that she will leave ITV Network Centre at the end of this year. Chapman will be replaced by Nigel Pickard who will move from Flextech where he is vice president, production and oversaw the launch of Flextech’s interactive quiz show channel Challenge TV.ITV Network… Continue reading New Controller For CITV
Wagadon’s women’s title Frank has reported first issue sales figures in the region of 131,000. The magazine launched in September with a print run of 220,000 and is hoping to settle for a circulation of around 100,000.Frank: 0171 689 2266
The PPA hosted a meeting yesterday which brought together Tessa Jowell, minister of state for public health, and the magazine industry to discuss the Government’s proposed ban on tobacco advertising. The meeting was initiated by the PPA following the Government’s Dying For A Fag anti-smoking conference.PPA: 0171 404 4166
Reuters has reported a year on year drop of 3% in its actual rates revenue for Quarter 3, from £736 million to £713m, and blamed the fall on the strength of Sterling. Underlying revenue however grew 8%.Chief executive Peter Job said: “We continue to expect underlying revenue growth for 1997 to be around current levels.”Reuters:… Continue reading Strength Of Sterling Hits Reuters
http://interactive.mediatel.co.ukDisplaying a well-balanced mixture of art images and functional design, the MediaTel Interactive site represents a showcase for the services which the company offers. The Clients section also provides a list of completed projects along with summaries of the benefits which the MediaTel Interactive sites generate. A number of high-profile clients currently have sites created… Continue reading Website Of The Week – MediaTel Interactive
