Chiltern Radio became the first station in the country to run a bingo ad today after a 30 year long ban was lifted on Friday.The station ran the first ad, in a £4,500 campaign for Top Rank Bingo Club in Luton, at one minute past midnight; 60 seconds after the ban, under the 1968 Gaming… Continue reading Two Little Ducks On The Wireless
TV Times has been appointed the official media partner for the BAFTA Awards. The Awards will take place at London’s Royal Albert Hall on Tuesday April 29.IPC Magazines: 0171 261 6575
BSkyB is considering charging its subscribers extra to view four England matches scheduled for June. BSkyB has bought the rights to the four match warm-up tournament for next year’s World Cup and is looking at charging viewers between £5 and £10 to see the games.A final decision on this matter is expected next month.
An extra 2 million homes will be able to receive Channel when it starts broadcasting on the Astra satellite from the middle of next week.The move, the first by a British terrestrial broadcaster means, that homes outside of 5’s current terrestrial and cable transmission footprint will now have the option of receiving the fifth channel… Continue reading Channel 5 Makes Its Mark On Satellite Footprint
IPC Magazines has announced that it has bought Here! magazine from G&J UK for an undisclosed amount.G&J will publish its last issue of Here! on May 6. The issue will be bagged together with a sample copy of IPC’s Now magazine. Thereafter, Here! will be incorporated into its former rival weekly Now.The two publishers say… Continue reading Here! Becomes Now
WPP, the world’s biggest advertising group, has published its first quarter results for 1997. The strength of the pound was blamed for the fall in revenues from £390.4 million to £387 million year-on-year. Although, on a like for like basis, revenues were shown to rise by 6% and the gross margin to 7%.Revenue growth was… Continue reading Revenues Rise 6% At WPP
Global advertising group Cordiant has this morning announced a three-way demerger of its businesses to create independently managed companies for Saatchi & Saatchi, Bates and Zenith.Saatchi & Saatchi and Bates will each have listings in London and New York and will jointly own Zenith. Bob Seelert will become chief executive of the Saatchi & Saatchi… Continue reading Cordiant Announces Demerger
WPP Group’s quarterly figures are published today; a full report will be available on Newsline. Cinema figures for March, showing a substantial increase on last year’s figure, will also appear on Newsline today.It is expected that TV revenue for March will be available this week on Newsline, along with further papers from the MRG Conference… Continue reading The Week Ahead
Spectrum Radio has been fined once again by the Radio Authority for breaching its Codes. The station breached the Authority’s News and Current Affairs Code and its Advertising and Sponsorship Code. The breaches occurred during two editions of a weekend phone-in programme that were hosted by a politician. The Authority was particularly dissatisfied with Spectrum’s… Continue reading Spectrum In The Soup Again
The Express is replacing its Preview section with a Friday Special. Anne Robinson has a column in the new section, which will be edited by the Express’s features editor, Jack Wright.Express Newspapers: 0171 928 8000
