Optimedia have appointed Simon Timlett as Head of Press. Timlett was formerly at CIA Media Network. Keith Hallett is now Group Director of Optimedia.…Meanwhile, CIA Media Network has poached Bill Faust from IMP as Managing Director of CIA Interactive. He takes over from Rob Norman. Norman has joined Prisma Sports and Media, but will continue… Continue reading New Appointments
Customer magazine publisher Redwood has announced that it will be publishing Early Learning for the Early Learning Centre.It will be a paid-for title, costing £1.80, and will be available in Early Learning stores, via news-stands and via subscription. Early Learning will be a quarterly 100-page perfect-bound glossy with an initial print-run of 180,000. It launches… Continue reading New Title For Redwood
HTV has launched its own Teletext Ancillary Service; viewers in the West of England will now be able to access a range of information on HTV and its programmes. HTV Teletext is found on pages 600-699. Viewers in Wales will receive individual regional pages.The pages will feature details of forthcoming HTV programming, studio-audience ticket availability… Continue reading HTV Now Appearing On Teletext
Cable company Telewest today issued operating statistics which show that cable penetration in its franchise area has increased by 0.7% points to 22.6% year on year. Churn was down slightly at 33.4% and cable TV customers increased year on year by 31.5% to 528,142.Telewest’s figures are indicative of most cable companies at present. Nynex for… Continue reading Telewest Penetration Shows Slight Increase
Submissions from major broadcasters, sports organisations and consumer and viewer groups have been received by the Independent Television Commission in response to its consultation on listed sports events.The ITC is required to draw up a Code on Sports and Other Listed Events as part of the Broadcasting Act 1996 to protect certain sporting events for… Continue reading ITC Receives Responses On Listed Events
According to a report in today’s Guardian the Labour party is planning a radical overhaul of the television regulatory system which will see the ITC merged with Oftel.The BBC, which currently regulates itself, would also lose most of its regulatory powers to the Independent Television Commission. At the moment the ITC monitors only commercial TV… Continue reading New TV Regulator Under Labour
Total terrestrial TV revenue for December reached £163.55 million. Of this, ITV brought in £126.55m and Channel 4 reached £37m. Among the ITV companies there was very little change year-on-year. Carlton experienced the biggest change with an increase of 0.9% point change while YTTV had the biggest drop at 0.65% points.
The Radio Authority has vetoed the proposed acquisition of GWR’s Leicester Sound by DMG Radio, a subsidiary of Daily Mail and General Trust plc *RA Carries Out Public Interest Tests. If the sale were to proceed Leicester Sound would lose its licence. The Radio Authority ruled that in these circumstances Leicester Sound would be operating… Continue reading Daily Mail Fails In Its Bid To Take To The Air Waves
1996 was the year in which struggling newspapers continued to lose sales and readership and successful titles went from strength to strength. It also saw the launch of two national newspapers, the Sunday Business and the Planet On Sunday.Despite revamps, promotions, price cuts and new sections being employed by most titles, circulation trends remained similar… Continue reading National Press Round-Up 1996
NYNEX CableComms and Telewest Communications have joined forces to trial direct-response television advertising in the Granada region.Grey Integrated is coordinating the campaign; it will focus on cable telephone and lead with an offer of 1,500 minutes of free local weekend calls.The test will run for three weeks from 20 January. Respondents will be handled by… Continue reading Joint TV Campaign For Cable Companies
