According to unofficial live data, the second Wednesday evening lottery draw was watched by 6.4 million viewers. This compares to a figure of 10.8 million for the week before.The latest Television data can be accessed by subscribers by clicking here.
The Independent today re-launched its media section as a stand-alone supplement. Media+ supplement appears on a Monday in direct competition with The Guardian’s media pages which were converted into a separate section a few week ago *Supplement Review – Media Guardian. This move has sparked-off The Guardian’s current ad campaign where The Guardian accuses The… Continue reading Supplement Review – Media Independent
The Financial Times is adding a two-page sport section to its Friday edition. The sports pages are expected to go into the paper by Easter. It is rumoured that the pages will concentrate on business associated with sport, rather than sports coverage.The FT is also about to brief three agencies to pitch for its worldwide… Continue reading FT To Take A Sporting Chance
A monthly magazine for extreme and dangerous sports enthusiasts will arrive at news-agents on February 27, priced £2.50. The people behind Xtreme Lifestyle Magazine, Pocket Guide Publishing, believe that they will be targeting the fastest growing sector of the sports industry.Bungee-jumping, white-water rafting and shovel racing are some of the hair-raising antics that will be… Continue reading Magazine Goes To Xtremes
The BBC has announced details of a new channel that will form part of its digital television service when it launches next year.BBC Inform is intended to enable viewers to keep up-to date with major dramas; it will also include background programme information on actors and issues that occur in programme plots, such as drug-abuse.… Continue reading New Channel For BBC
The Independent has launched its stand-alone media section today. A review will appear on Newsline.Channel 5 is launching its long-awaited programme schedule on Tuesday; a full report will be available on Wednesday’s Newsline.Wednesday will also see the release of WPP’s full-year results. Analysts are forecasting pre-tax profits of around £150 million, up £113 million year-on-year.It… Continue reading The Week Ahead
The long-standing tight state control over Austria’s television and radio broadcasting appears to be headed for the scrap-heap, following the publication on 19 February of a draft law on radio, cable and satellite broadcasting. Austria has two state-owned terrestrial TV channels, ORF1 and ORF2. Competing cable and satellite broadcasters based in Germany broadcast into Austria,… Continue reading OS: Legislative Threat To State Monopoly
The EC is proposing to look into the vast differences in the vitamin and vitamin or mineral-enriched food industry across the EU, by publishing a discussion paper in April on the subject. There are several issues at stake, not least barriers to free trade being used to prevent imports from countries with more liberal regimes… Continue reading EU: Vitamin Industry To Be Studied
On 10 February at the federal court in Greensboro the first stage of what promises to be a lengthy and expensive litigation took place, when representatives of the tobacco industry asked judge William Osteen to rule that the Food and Drug Administration has neither authority nor jurisdiction to regulate cigarette sales and marketing, and to… Continue reading US: FDA Vs Tobacco Companies
