A report from Continental Research suggests that digital television will be installed in two million homes in the UK by 2002. 50% of these households will have Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) with the other half tuning in to digital satellite programmes.DTT is due to launch in July 1998 while digital satellite will probably go ahead… Continue reading Latest DTT Predictions
Sport First , the daily sports newspaper which has been trying to launch since last year, is gearing up for a launch within the next few months.The six-day per week four-colour broadsheet, edited by Bob Harris, is aiming to raise around £4.5m through a placing document with stockbroker I A Pritchard. The title, if and… Continue reading Sport First Gears For Launch Again
It has been confirmed that Sunday Business has gone into receivership. The title, which has not published for the last two weeks, has been put into the hands of David Sapte of accountancy firm Begbies, which is confident that a buyer can be found.The newspaper, which had been claiming a growing circulation, was hit two… Continue reading Sunday Business Goes Into Receivership
Top-line RAJAR data for Quarter 2 1997 will be released on Friday 8 August, though it is embargoed until 12pm. New stations on the survey will be The Beach, Kiss 105, Kix 96, Mix 96, Spirit FM and Valley Radio while those not participating in this release will be Eleven Seventy AM, London Greek Radio… Continue reading RAJAR Release Date Announced
Everett True has been named as the new editor of Vox . He was previously assistant editor of Melody Maker and replaces Steve Sutherland who was also editor of NME. IPC want Sutherland to concentrate totally on NME as the title and its Website will be going through a phase of “major redevelopment”.True will take… Continue reading New Editor For Vox
This magazine claims to be for a cooler kind of couch potato, but cooler than what? Put it this way, when Cult TV arrived in the office this morning, the computer whizz-kids and web-designers were the only ones to get excited, so need I say more about this title.Okay, I am going to try to… Continue reading First Issue Review – Cult TV
Guinness Brewing Worldwide is the first company to sign-up for worldwide sponsorship of the 1999 Rugby World Cup Tournament.ITV has secured the live rights to the tournament, which kick-off in September 1999.Guinness: 0181 965 7700
The ITC is inviting comments on draft proposals for the procedure it intends to follow when considering applications from ITV licencees to renew their licences.Channel 3 licencees, including GMTV and Teletext, can, if they wish, apply to have their licences renewed with effect from 1 January 1999. This is despite the fact that existing licences… Continue reading Channel 3 Licence Renewal
It is estimated that The Lost World, the sequel to Jurassic Park, grossed £5.66m on its opening weekend. While this beats the opening figure achieved by Jurassic Park, which was £4.87m in 1993, it failed to match Independence Day which took £6.9m in its first three days last year.Subscribers can access the Cinema Database by… Continue reading Lost World Cashes In
Agency estimates put the combined ITV/C4 revenue for June at £184.2m, while Channel 5 brought in £9.7m which is an unwelcome fall from May’s figure of £11m. ITV’s revenue was put at £140.2m while C4’s was £44m, up 3.1%.It was the London broadcasters which experienced the greatest year on year changes among the ITV contractors,… Continue reading TV Revenue – June
