A new consumer travel magazine, Holidays has launched. The monthly full-colour glossy retails at £1.95 and is published by Exeter-based, Icon Publishing.With an initial print-run of 40,000, Holidays is aiming at AB adults who take at least one foreign holiday per-year. According to the publishers, this group spends in excess of £6 billion annually on… Continue reading Holidays For As Little As £1.95
A report carried out by Datamonitor concludes that the European CD hardware market will almost double over the next five years. By 2001 this market is expected to reach 16 million units, 24% of which will be accounted for by business purchases.The consumer sales sector currently accounts for 79% of sales, while education and business… Continue reading CD Market To Nearly Double By 2001
The number of homes which will require new aerials or aerial upgrades to receive Channel 5 have been underestimated by the channel, according to a report by the Confederation of Aerial Industries (CAI). The estimated total cost for householders is likely to reach £250m.The CAI, the aerial manufacturers’ body, estimates that around 3.4 million homes… Continue reading C5 Aerial Costs Could Reach £250m
Fresh is the new magazine from the publishers of Hairflair magazine.£1.95 will get you this 98 page publication with a photo of a sorry looking soul on the front. Beyond the hallowed features of the cover-girl is an amateurly-produced magazine with a strong fashion and beauty section, but otherwise poor features.It is obvious that the… Continue reading First Issue Review – Fresh
Following a High Court hearing, Haymarket consumer magazines has been granted permission to launch The Box , a magazine about television *New Magazine For Haymarket.The judge ruled that the title would not be confused with EMAP’s The Box cable channel. EMAP had applied for an injunction to prevent publication of the bi-monthly magazine that is… Continue reading Haymarket In Boxing Match With EMAP
GMTV has confirmed that it is planning a children’s TV channel for digital terrestrial television. Peter McHugh, director of programmes at GMTV, said: “GMTV are actively looking to take advantage of DTV to bring a GMTV children’s channel to British homes, bearing in mind our already prominent position in the children’s TV programming market.”No further… Continue reading GMTV Plans A New Channel
Mediapolis has set-up Mediapolis Extra Time, a television sponsorship, product placement and new media division.Guy Martin, TV buyer and sponsorship coordinator, is to head the new division; he will no longer be responsible for TV buying. Extra Time has already arranged two sponsorship deals for Carlton. In a deal worth £150,000, London Transport will sponsor… Continue reading Mediapolis Goes Into Extra Time
Anglia Television has successfully applied to the Independent Television Commission to allow it to reduce the amount of entertainment programming it broadcasts in favour or more factual-based shows.The ITV broadcaster will be reducing its entertainment programming from 28 minutes per week to 16 and arts from 41 minutes a week to 36, whilst increasing factual… Continue reading Anglia To Broadcast More Factual Programming
