The Network Centre has said that it has approached the main political parties with a view to screening a televised debate between the party leaders (see yesterday’s Major Ready For TV Debate).It has made a proposal for the programme and is currently awaiting the parties’ responses. A press release from the Network Centre says: “The… Continue reading ITV Approaches Politicians For Debate
IPC has made the shock announcement that it is closing its new listings title Film & TV Week after only ten weeks. The last issue will go on sale today.In announcing the closure, Nigel Davidson, managing director of the IPC Weeklies Group, said: “This market is a notoriously difficult one to enter, and we always… Continue reading IPC Closes Film & TV Week
IPC Magazines has announced the appointment of Jean Christie as display advertisement controller for the Specialist Group Country Magazines and Leisure Network.Christie will be responsible for core display advertising (including sponsorship and advertorials) across Country Life, The Field, London Portrait, Shooting Times and Sporting Gun, as well as retaining her current responsibility for the consumer… Continue reading IPC Specialist Group Appoints Ad Controller
Martin Sorrell, chief executive of global ad group WPP, yesterday picked up around £3m in company shares as part of an incentive scheme he initiated in 1994.The Capital Investment Plan allows for such a bonus if the group trades above the plan’s required 230p level for 60 consecutive trading days. Yesterday the group’s shares were… Continue reading WPP Chief Gets £3m In Shares
Business Monitor, the online business and economics information source, has launched its DataCash payment system whereby users pay a fee for each item of data requested. This means that users will no longer pay annual subscriptions.The first database to be made available through DataCash is Spicers Centre for Europe, an information source containing over 60,000… Continue reading Internet ‘Pay-Per-View’ System Launched
It was a busy day for the Flextech Board, not only did they officially announce the details of Flextech’s joint venture with the BBC today Flextech And The BBC Finally Shake Hands, they also released the group’s financial results for the year ending 31 December 1996.Flextech has seen a continuing growth in turnover up from… Continue reading Flextech Reports Continuing Growth
It is rumoured that Sunday Business the struggling financial newspaper is considering floating on the stock market. The paper is thought to be hoping for a listing on the Alternative Stock market within 12 months.However, unless the business is packaged with a number of profitable ventures it is unlikely to tempt many investors.
The IPA has today launched its Excellence in Advertising hardback book. Edited by Leslie Butterfield, the book brings together the views of some of the better known figures in advertising and marketing and includes contributions from John Bartle, Peter Doyle, Gary Duckworth, Paul Feldwick, Chris Forrest, Bruce Haines, Steve Henry, Iain Jacobs, Jim Kelly and… Continue reading IPA Launches Advertising Book
The ITC’s February Programme Complaints and Interventions Report was published today.The ITV programme Monarchy – The National Decides has been the subject of a number of complaints to the ITC. The current affairs programme that considered the future of the Monarchy received 85 complaints from viewers. The majority of these criticisms concerned the style of… Continue reading Monarchy – The ITC Decided
Granada’s announcement on Friday that it was not interested in acquiring YTTV while its price was so high sent the Yorkshire broadcaster’s shareprice tumbling. It fell over 100p from 1280p to 1162.5p while Granada lost 17p to reach 956.5p. BZW’s buy of 19.5 million BSkyB shares from Pearson, Granada and Pathe did not seriously affect… Continue reading Sharewatch – W/E 14/03/97
