As a mark of respect following the death of the Princess of Wales, the launch of the Daily Star‘s MegaStar Website and the planned launch party, due to have taken place today, have been postponed. A new date is expected to be announced shortly.Today’s other media launches will go ahead: Xfm launched at midday and… Continue reading Daily Star Postpones Website Launch
ABC //electronic has registered Electronic Telegraph (ET) for an audit, it has been announced.Richard Foan, head of ABC //electronic said ‘It’s great news to have Electronic Telegraph on board. Web auditing is growing at a steady rate and every client we sign adds to the development of our service. It is very encouraging for the… Continue reading ABC //electronic Signs The Telegraph
The BBC is expected to confirm this week the cable companies which will be showing its forthcoming 24-hour news service. It is believed that the service, which launches as part of the BBC’s digital television plans, will oust Sky News on a number of cable services.Telewest has confirmed that it will be showing the BBC… Continue reading BBC News To Oust Sky
ITV Sport has been awarded the UEFA Champions League Broadcaster of the Season Award for the 1996/97 season.ITV won the award in contention with UEFA’s 55 broadcasting partners worldwide for its consistently high standards as host broadcaster during the UEFA Champions League home involving Manchester United and Glasgow Rangers.ITV: 0171 843 8000
John Willis, director of programmes at Channel 4, is quitting after his request to be released from his contract was agreed by the C4 board on Friday. He has secured a £500,000 severance deal.Mr Willis was a front-runner in the race to succeed Michael Grade as chief executive of the channel but was beaten to… Continue reading Willis Quits C4
Journal Publishing Company has launched three new free regional newspapers. They are the Exeter Guardian, the Leeds Times and the East Midlands Business News.The Guardian and the Business News are monthly titles while the Times is a weekly.Journal Publishing Company: 01332 292 894
A report from Merrill Lynch, which suggested that Carlton could lose around £32m as a result of the Channel 4 funding formula being scrapped, sent the broadcaster down 13p to 496.5p on Wednesday. This also affected United News & Media, which slipped 2 to 698.5p, and Scottish Media, down a penny at 633p. Granada was… Continue reading Sharewatch – W/E 29/8/97
Cable & Wireless Communications has signed a deal with BSkyB which will see it use the satellite broadcaster as its main supplier of pay-per-view programmes and channels. The move replaces CWC’s previous plans to develop its own programming services.The CWC/BSkyB agreement has also created tension in the cable industry, which in the past had always… Continue reading CWC To Use BSkyB
A free copy of Northern & Shell’s OK! Magazine was given out free with the Sun today. This follows the other major promotion for the newspaper this year, when it was given away free in February to mark the launch of the Wednesday Lottery. It is thought that this backfired however when people spent the… Continue reading Sun Is OK!
C5’s coverage of the Newcastle/Croatia Zagreb football match on Wednesday evening attracted a peak audience of 3.380 million, which is a TVR of 6.2, according to unofficial data. This is one of the channel’s highest ever viewing figures. The game pulled in an ABC1 Men rating of 8.7 and an ABC1 Adult rating of 6.2.During… Continue reading C5 Football Notches Up 3.4m
