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Wednesday’s Coronation Street saw Jim MacDonald out on his first date since breaking up with Liz, 17.38 million people thought it was a good enough reason to tune in, placing the episode at the top of the thirty in this week’s chart. Nice to see a far more familiar Coronation Street style storyline taking place,… Continue reading TV Viewing Summary W/E 11/05/97
The ITC has agreed to vary the build timetable in the licence for Eurobell Ltd, the local delivery licensee for West Kent.Eurobell had indicated that it had been unable to start construction in West Kent due to delays in the granting of the licence under the Telecommunications Act 1984. The ITC has reluctantly agreed to… Continue reading Licence Change
The National Heritage Secretary, Chris Smith has unveiled a seven point plan for the British Film Industry, these are:1. For the first time ever, a Minister for Film has been appointed, Tom Clarke.2. The film and television industry is to play a substantial role in the welfare-to-work programme and this means it must help to… Continue reading Plans For The Pictures
Oasis’s management is threatening legal action against dozens of unofficial Net sites dedicated to the group. The band’s management has given unauthorised sites 30 days to remove any illegal material. This demonstrates that there is growing support for intellectual copyright laws to be introduced for the Internet.The Internet is fast becoming a virtual shopping mall,… Continue reading Web Round-Up – W/E 23/05/97
Digital Television Networks is so confident of winning its bid to launch digital terrestrial TV next year that is has opened negotiations with the BBC and Flextech, the channels who are working with the rival bidder, British Digital Broadcasting.DTN wants to buy the broadcast rights to several subscription channels under development by the new BBC-Flextech… Continue reading BBC All Out Winners
The BBC is launching a commercial Internet site. Beeb will be the BBC’s new on-line entertainment and information service.Built around BBC programmes, magazines and personalities, beeb aims to create web-based equivalents that extend brand values rather than simply replicating them. There will be a series of webzines focusing on sport, film and TV, motoring, travel,… Continue reading Money’s In The Net At The Beeb
The legislation for a tobacco advertisement ban, announced in the Queen’s speech last week, is set to be introduced in a draft Bill this summer. Frank Dobson, Secretary of State for Health, also confirmed yesterday what many in the media industry already knew: that a tobacco advertising ban would include a ban on tobacco sponsorship,… Continue reading Tobacco Ban Set For Summer
The Channel 5 9pm movie, much trumpeted as a popular alternative to other channel’s offerings, can be seen as a general indicator of 5’s success since it launched at the end of March. This is not only because 5 itself placed so much faith in it as an audience puller, but because advertisers did too.… Continue reading Channel 5 Analysis – The 9pm Movie
The government has promised to review the listed sports events that are guaranteed to be shown on free-to-air terrestrial TV. Mark Fisher, junior National Heritage Minister told the Commons yesterday“As promised in our manifesto, the Government will carry out a review of the listed events. Many people wish to see a wider range of key… Continue reading Listed Sports Review