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
(Updated at 3:11pm)Christine Walker, Chief Executive of Zenith Media, has announced that she is leaving the UK’s largest media buying company. Graham Duff, who is currently joint managing director, is taking over her post. No firm date has yet been set for the hand-over.It is not yet clear what Walker’s future plans are though among… Continue reading Walker To Leave Zenith
James Boyle, Controller of BBC Radio 4, spoke of his plans to shake-up the station at a Radio Academy conference last week. Mr Boyle said that he was keen to ensure that Radio 4 programmes retained their freshness. He doesn’t want the station to become stuck in a rut and he wants new producers to… Continue reading Radio 4 Ready For Change
Johnston Press has sold the Town Crier – West Cambridgeshire to the Yattendon Investment Trust. The Trust also owns the Cambridge Evening News.The new Press Planner can be accessed by subscribers by clicking here and choosing “Press”. Press Planner can only be accessed using Netscape 3.0.
Hamerville Magazines, publisher of business-to-business building and maintenance titles, has joined forces with On Demand Information, an Internet service provider, to create two ISDN based services called Build.Data Online and Interior Design.Both of these directories, due for launch in March, will provide Internet access as well as electronic versions of Hamerville’s magazines. Each magazine will… Continue reading Hamerville Magazines Launches Internet Service
IPC magazines and Times Newspapers are launching their first major joint promotion this weekend.Times readers will be able to obtain a free copy of one of twelve IPC titles in exchange for four coupons printed in The Times. The coupons will be printed in the paper over a six-day period from Monday, January 20.There will… Continue reading IPC Magazines Link Up With Times
Cheryl Allen is now Regional Sales Director at Emap Radio. She was previously responsible for selling all Emap stations, except Red Dragon, to agencies outside of London.…Capital Radio has promoted Carina Martin to marketing manager from marketing executive. She will now have responsibility for the marketing and advertising areas of Capital FM and Capital Gold.
Film & TV Week , IPC’s new weekly listings magazine, went on sale for the first time today. The trial price is 40p. It is targeted at dedicated film fans, who don’t miss a movie, whether it be on the box, at the pictures or on video. Film & TV Week claims to be challenging… Continue reading First Issue Review: Film And TV Week
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 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
