25 jobs have gone at The Express following a restructuring of the display advertising team. Shalene Perkins, head of advertising on the Sunday paper, Charlie McCrostie, head of advertising at the Daily Star and Peter Thompson, head of advertising features are among the senior staff reported to have been taken-off the Express payroll.Andy Jonesco, group… Continue reading Major Changes At The Express
Liberty Publishing has signed a number of bulk distribution deals in a bid to turn around Punch’s depressing circulation figures *Liberty Lose Chairman And Chief Executive.Guests of Queen’s Moat and Starkis hotels and travellers on Cathay Pacific’s long-haul flights will each receive a free copy of the magazine.All bulk sales figures will be listed separately… Continue reading Desperate Punches
The Independent Television Commission is set to announce its new code on masthead programming within the next month.The code, covering magazine sponsorship of television programmes, is set to remove the prohibition on masthead programming for cable and satellite services and relax the type of sponsorship deals which are permissible for consumer advice programmes. At the… Continue reading ITC Set To Announce New Masthead Rules
The ITC has decided that, as a result of a ruling of the European Court of Justice, it will not in future license satellite services transmitted from the UK, by or on behalf of EU Persons, unless the service provider is ‘established’ in the UK.When considering whether a service provider is ‘established’, the ITC will… Continue reading ITC Responds To Ruling
Complaints were made to the Broadcasting Standards Council following the screening of Michael Jackson’s Thriller video on TOTP2. The BSC’s February Complaints Bulletin reported that: “The Committee took the view that the nature of this video made it inappropriate for inclusion in the pre-Watershed programme.”There were also complaints upheld about ITV’s The Knock; the BSC… Continue reading More Complaints About Michael Jackson
The Mirror is launching a stand-alone regional recruitment section with tomorrow’s paper. The new weekly section will be between 8 to 12 pages and has a 50:50 ad/ed ratio. The main recruitment areas covered are retail, IT, clerical, catering, leisure, telecommunications and nursing.This is the first time that a tabloid paper has given a lot… Continue reading Jobs In The Mirror
The two papers presented at last night’s MRG Evening Meeting described research which suggests that BARB is having problems measuring multiple guest viewing and 16-24 year old viewing.Hugh Johnson, head of research at Channel 4, believes that BARB is not cut out for measuring the lifestyle of 16-24 year olds and highlighted some findings of… Continue reading MRG Evening Meeting: BARB Under Pressure
http://www.comicrelief.org.ukWith Red Nose Day less than a month away Comic Relief has created a huge net-site for everyone to stick their beaks in to.This site is so well designed that even Mr Bean could find his way around it. Hands abound, to point you in the right direction. It is obviously intended to be child… Continue reading Web Site Of The Week – Comic Relief
The growth of new media today makes it more important than ever to reduce media-specific government controls over content and ownership, warns Newspaper Society deputy director David Newell.Speaking at the Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society Lecture yesterday, on the subject of Media Freedoms and Controls in the New Information Age, Mr Newell went on to… Continue reading NS Warns Against Government Control Of Media
It is reported that the Media Centre has moved into the top 3 of the 1996 media billings league. The findings, based on the newly released Register-MEAL figures, show that the agency ended last year with billings of £357 million, a 20% rise year-on-year. This rise is largely due to new business gained from Barclays… Continue reading Media Centre Moves Into Top 3
