Carlton Communications Plc and the film finance and distribution company, Intermedia, have agreed to establish a joint development fund for British films. Carlton Film Distributors is also to merge its international sales operation with Village Intermedia Pictures, a distribution business jointly owned by Intermedia and Australian Village Roadshow.This will further augment Carlton’s film archive after… Continue reading Carlton In Film Partnership With Intermedia
Any information submitted to the Internet, whether as online application forms or personal email correspondence, will, if governments get their way, be available for scrutiny. US intelligence agencies are currently campaigning to ban any encryption codes which they cannot read thus providing them with access to any information passing through the Internet, including private financial… Continue reading Web Round-Up W/E 26/09/97
ITV has announced new marketing initiatives in conjunction with its children’s programming on CITV. In association with its schedule of drama and events, it is offering advertisers the opportunity to sponsor specific programmes and promotions. Advertisers are being offered the chance to use the CITV idents between programmes as a sponsorship vehicle.According to ITV its… Continue reading New Promotional And Marketing Initiatives At CITV
Press Gazette reports today that the new Irish national newspaper, Ireland On Sunday, will be launched this weekend.Incorporating the existing Sunday sports paper, The Title, the paper will be in three sections. According to the editor Liam Hayes, the paper will be “fresh, stylistic, contemporary and fast-moving.” It is backed by a consortium of Irish… Continue reading Ireland On Sunday Launches This Weekend
The Media Business has promoted three of its former associate directors to full directors. Mark Collins, Nick Lawson and David Porter have been promoted in recognition of their contributions to the growth of the agency, according to group managing director, Stephen Allan. The group’s most recent win was the £15m Video Collection International.…Giles Howard will… Continue reading Appointment News
The new teenage cable channel Rapture is to have an air-time sales team based at the ITV sales house, TSMS, which will be led by former broadcast director of Initiative Marketing, Robert Ditcham. TSMS is owned by United News & Media which also has a major shareholding in Rapture.Rapture‘s programming will target the upper end… Continue reading Rapture Sets Up Sales Operation With TSMS
30 Beautiful Homes is dubbed “The magazine you’ve always wanted.” Naturally, this depends on what it is you’ve always wanted to do. On the one hand, you may wish to spend, if you have it, vast amounts of money converting and creating one of these ‘beautiful homes’ and filling it with all manner of antique… Continue reading Pilot Issue Review – 30 Beautiful Homes
Interim pre-tax profits rose 12% year on year to £43.7m for the Mirror Group. Growth in advertising revenue assisted this, with Classified ads being particularly strong with a 24% increase. Losses at L!ve TV fell and it is expected that The Independent will enter into profit next year.Mirror Group: 0171 293 3000
According to unofficial live data the Chelsea v Bratislava football match on Channel 5 last night was viewed by an average of 2.4 million Individuals, which is a TVR of 4.5. The audience peaked at 3.6 million. The other C5 game shown earlier in the week, between Slavonika and Arsenal, attracted an average individuals audience… Continue reading Chelsea Game Attracts 2.4m For C5
