Harrods, the world famous department store, has won it’s High Court Case to stop it’s name being used without permission on the Internet.Harrods instigated legal proceedings in August last year against Mr Michael Lawrie and others who had applied for, and were using, the Internet address, harrods.com. The High Court decided that the actions of… Continue reading There Is Still Only One Harrods
The national newspaper ABCs for December show that the Sunday market has got both the highest and the lowest results. The Sunday Telegraph has seen the most marked leap in sales with an increase of 35.76% year-on-year while the Express on Sunday continues to show the biggest fall, down 17.32% year-on-year. In the daily market… Continue reading National Newspaper December ABCs
In an unconfirmed leak to the Financial Times, the Capital Radio Group is reported to have told the Radio Authority that it will as much as triple the programme budget of Capital Gold, if it is successful in winning the new London FM frequency. The current Capital Gold budget is about £900,000 a year. This… Continue reading Capital To Invest In Gold
The Advertising Association has forecast that UK advertising expenditure will rise by 5% ,on constant prices, during 1997. The AA also predicts that ad expenditure for 1996 will reach £11.73bn.Job vacancies have reached their highest in 20 years and classified advertising should benefit accordingly. Print revenue should profit greatly from the classified advertising boom and… Continue reading Ad Expenditure On The Up
A glossy magazine for high flying Irish men and women living in Britain is in the publishing pipeline. Crack?, Irish slang for what’s going on?, is the name of the proposed title. But, the people behind the headline need to raise at least £350,000 to get the monthly magazine off the drawing board and into… Continue reading Its A Cracker
The Independent Television Commission has published a draft Code of Conduct on Electronic Programme Guides (EPGs) for public consultation.EPGs are the electronic menus which viewers will increasingly be calling up on their TV screens to select the television programmes they wish to watch. Of particular concern to the ITC is that the assembly and packaging… Continue reading ITC Launches Consultation On Programme Guides
MediaTel, the UK’s biggest media database, now almost entirely accessible via the Internet, launches its new Press Database service and a redesigned look to its complete web product this afternoon.The new Press Database offers users a number of improved features which allows access to information on press circulation and readership data quickly and easily. The… Continue reading MediaTel Launches New Database
Qualities The Times and Daily Telegraph were once again way ahead of the opposition amongst the daily quality titles. The News International title experienced a year-on-year sales increase in December of 14.78% to 740,709 copies while the Daily Telegraph increased its circulation by 9.2% to 1.132 million. The Guardian remained stable, registering only a slight… Continue reading National Press Round-Up – December
Future Publishing has just released its first film related title, Total Film Magazine. Total Film went on sale at a special introductory price of £1. Published monthly, the normal price will be £2.50.Matt Bielby, the Editor, sets the scene for the title in his opening note, “You’re holding up a magazine that’s right up your… Continue reading First Issue Review: Total Film Magazine
Most sectors had a quiet week though agencies AMV.BBDO and CIA both performed well, with AMV rising from 651p at the start of the week to 678.5p by Friday as a result of it winning Campaign‘s Agency of the Year Award. CIA was buoyed by a mention in Media Week‘s Agency of the Year list… Continue reading Sharewatch – W/E 10/1/97
