Hollinger International, the group that owns the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, is said to be considering expanding into the regional press. Midland Independent Newspapers is known to have attracted the group’s attention.Hollinger bid £105 million for Midland in 1991. It was beaten by a management buy-out group that paid £125 million. Midland, which publishes The… Continue reading Telegraph To Take A Stake In The Provinces
Nynex CableComms this afternoon released yearly financial figures which show that total revenue has increased by 78% year-on-year to £151 million.While cable penetration increased marginally from 19.8% to 20.6% and customers increased 36% to 268,519, the company is still in the red to the tune of £63.1m. This is an improvement however on 1995’s figure… Continue reading Increased Revenue For Nynex
The Guardian Media Section was re-launched yesterday as a stand alone supplement. It leads with an interesting interview with Murdoch Junior, Rupert Murdoch’s daughter. But, the Murdoch mind had little difficulty dodging around the questions; John Mulholland failed to drag out any interesting answers.An expanded jobs section has helped bulk out the pages. There are… Continue reading Supplement Review – Media Guardian
UK Living has unveiled details of its new three-hour morning strand Tiny Living which launches on February 3.Based around pre-school programming and aimed at mums and their children, Tiny Living will replace all the BBC programming previously in that slot. Programmes in the schedule, which will run seven days per week from 0600-0900, include Barney… Continue reading UK Living Launches New Morning Strand
MTV will announce this week that it will be launching two new music channels, one of which being aimed specifically at the UK. They are expected to be called MTV in the UK and M2: Music Television.It has long been rumoured that MTV was considering some new channel launches *(MTV Planning New Channel) and the… Continue reading MTV To Announce New Channel Launch
The trade press report that the Mirror Group and Carlton Communications are discussing putting together a joint bid for digital terrestrial television licenses. Both companies have worked together before. Last June they submitted an unsuccessful joint bid for the UK live television rights to Premier League football. Carlton has also been linked with CableTel for… Continue reading Carlton Sees A Partner In The Mirror
Paragon Publishing is sending three new computing magazines to the printers. They will join their current computing magazines; CD-ROM Series, CD-ROM Games, PC Power Platinum, CD-ROM Games Gold, Internet Today, Windows Plus, II Shareware Gold, III Edutainment Gold, Net User and Iv PC Office.Nintendo 64 Magazine is the first of the new launches to go… Continue reading Paragon Launch 3 New Computing Titles
Press reports claim that a revaluation of ITV licences will lead to a reduction in the sums ITV companies pay to the government.The ITV companies in total pay an annual £400 million to the treasury. No mention has been made of how much this sum will be reduced by. Savings for the companies could be… Continue reading ITV Revenue To Treasury Is Set To Fall
World in Action, the television documentary series, have launched a web site. The site is full of information on past, current and future programme subjects. It also gives the visitor the chance to feedback on previous programmes and has details of where to find out more on certain subjects. It also gives you the chance… Continue reading Web Round Up – W/E 17/1/97
Radio Times magazine has added a film guide section in a move taken to fight off the competition.Barry Norman will front the new 14 page section.. This will be the first time that the Radio Times has covered video and film releases, as well as its traditional radio and TV listings.A poster promotion pack and… Continue reading Radio Times Expands Into Film
