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Do It All, the DIY chain, has produced a customer service magazine Homeplus and is distributing it to 2 million households. The title is published by Atom Publishing.Atom Publishing: 0171 837 1101

Agency estimates put terrestrial TV revenue for March at £192.070m. Of this, ITV brought in £148.070m and Channel 4 £44m. Among the ITV franchises Carlton again performed the best, increasing its terrestrial revenue share by 0.90% points to 16.64%. By contrast, the other London broadcaster, LWT, showed the largest drop at 0.51% points to 12.71%.

The BBC’s election night programme will be the longest ever broadcast by the Corporation. There will be eight hours of results, comment and analysis next Thursday night; two hours more than the BBC’s previous election night specials.David Dimbleby, Peter Snow and Jeremy Paxman will be presenting from the studio and Kate Adie and John Simpson… Continue reading BBC’s Longest Programme Ever

Just like the TV programme this title is as cheesy as Bob Monkhouse eating camembert!GMTV Magazine is a cheerful, happy picture-led publication put together, and featuring, beautiful bright and breezy people who only see the sunny side of life.As is only to be expected, the magazine exploits its links with the TV show. Each of… Continue reading First Issue Review – GMTV Magazine

David Brennan, VP research, Flextech TelevisionI’m glad Hugh took on the job of explaining the technology behind digital, because I’m not sure I could have done it. What I can do is talk about what all this technology might mean for the broadcasters and – even more importantly – the viewer.I thought I’d hide my… Continue reading David Brennan – ‘Digital, Schmigital’

The weekly car magazine Auto Express is relaunching this week with a new look, a new price and a new issue day. Auto Express will now be published on Wednesdays instead of Fridays and its cover price has been reduced by 20p to £1.30.There will be a new “crisp, modern design accentuated by a change… Continue reading Auto Express Changes Gear

Zenith Media, split off from the Cordiant Group earlier this week (Newsline 21/04/97), is rumoured to be looking for another media partner. It is believed the company, which is now jointly owned by Saatchi & Saatchi and Bates, is looking especially towards Europe and Aegis has been mentioned in connection with this. Managing director Andy… Continue reading Zenith Looks For Partner

Jazz FM is the latest radio station to go on-line. Its Website can be found at . While, LBC Radio and its FM counterpart, London News Direct, are now broadcasting a live audio feed over the Net.Staying with broadcasting, the BBC has appointed Edward Briffa as its first head of on-line. This demonstrates that the… Continue reading Web Round-Up W/E 25/04/97

It has emerged that Alan Yentob, the BBC’s director of programmes, has decided not to put himself forward for the job of C4’s chief executive. The decision was apparently made after a meeting between Mr Yentob and Sir Michael Bishop, C4’s chairman.The C4 board will meet next Monday to discuss who will replace Michael Grade… Continue reading Latest On Race For C4 Job