The Independent Television Commission has appointed NatWest Markets as its adviser for financial aspects of the award of digital terrestrial multiplex licences. The merchant bank will advise whether, taking account of the ITC’s own assessment of the business plans, each applicant passes the financial sustainability test.So far, all UK terrestrial TV services have secured places… Continue reading ITC Appoints Financial Adviser
www.carltonplc.co.ukCarlton Communications Plc has recently launched a Website on the Internet. The site itself is broken down into four different sections: Contact Carlton Group Profile Finance News Contact Carlton gives browsers the chance to state their views on any aspect of Carlton . Group Profile gives a general overview of the Carlton group and lists… Continue reading Website Of The Week – Carlton
The BBC has spent £43 million on its fight with ITV and Channel 4 in the Christmas ratings wars. The main highlight of the festive season is the three part special of top comedy Only Fools And Horses. There are also Christmas specials for The Vicar Of Dibley, Noel Edmunds and Animal Hospital. There will… Continue reading BBC Christmas Schedule
The Daily Mail Group is launching Family Fun, a new consumer magazine that primarily aimed at families with children aged 4 to 12 years. The magazine launches in March and will have an initial print run of 190,000, with the aim of settling down at around 100,000. The magazine will cost £2.50 and publish on… Continue reading New Family Magazine To Launch
The Guardian has signed a sponsorship deal which will see its Guide section sponsor Kiss TV’s programme The Edge on Live TV .The deal will run for a year with credits created by Leagas Delaney. The newspaper already sponsors Channel 4’s Film on Four *Guardian Sponsors Film On Four.* MediaTel subscribers onlyGuardian: 0171 239 9696
Flextech is relaunching Family Channel in February as Challenge TV . The change follows on from Family Channel’s themed ‘Challenge Weekends’ which were running earlier in the year. The new channel will continue the pattern of interactive programming strands, which was very successful in attracting new viewers to the Family Channel.Challenge TV will transmit from… Continue reading Family Channel Takes The Challenge
The Lowe Group has today announced that it will be creating a new media company across Europe called Western International Media Europe.The company is the result of a joint venture between the Lowe Group, Initiative Media and Western International Media of the USA. The network will launch in January from Lowe’s headquarters in London and… Continue reading Lowe Group Creates New Media Company
The Guardian newspaper is expanding its current media section and turning it into a stand alone supplement. The change will occur from Monday January 13th and will include special new features such as: an advertising column written by industry insiders; a weekly profile of a media consumer and a section on how to handle the… Continue reading Guardian Makes Media Section Grow
Emap Metro has bought XL, the men’s health and fitness title, from Affinity Publishing. Emap will begin publishing the title in February. It will be the third publisher for the magazine in twelve months: Affinity bought it from Stonehart Publishing in February this year *Magazine Changes: Superclassics, XL And New Statesman.…Haymarket Business Publications has bought… Continue reading Magazine Briefs
Liberty Publishing has announced that Ian Scott has resigned from the post of ad director at Punch. He will leave the title at the end of the month.This week’s edition of Punch shows the results of a range of editorial changes which have been made under acting editor Stewart Stevens. These include alterations to the… Continue reading Punch Ad Director Leaves
