Many of this weeks stories highlight the increasing moves to merge the fields of television and Internet. London based ViewCall Europe said on Thursday that it has signed deals with three separate companies – Mitsubishi Electronics America, Yahoo!, and USA Today – to offer its OnTV television-based service to the Internet.OnTV is subscription-based and provides… Continue reading Web Round Up
Gilly Cubitt, former editor of Essentials magazine, has been appointed as the new editor of BBC Vegetarian Good Food Magazine. Cubitt, who takes up her new position from today, will hope to build on the current success of the magazine.NRS figures for Vegetarian Good Food Magazine for the period March-August 1996 showed an increase of… Continue reading Vegetarian Magazine Appoints New Editor
Today sees the launch of the Independent‘s new, revamped second section. The paper states that the aim of The Tabloid, as it is now called, is “to offer intellectual, emotional and visual pleasure; to follow the movement of cultural and social life in the way Independent readers would wish”.The first issue however offers basically the… Continue reading Independent Gets New Look Section Two
The Times today increased its cover-price by 5p to 35p. This mirrors a move by the Daily Telegraph which this week increases by the same amount to 45p *Telegraph Increases Cover Price. The Monday edition of both papers however remains aloof from price increases: the Times is still selling at 10p and the Telegraph remains… Continue reading Times Joins Telegraph In Price Hike
Radio group GWR has made a bid of £70m for Westcountry, the privately-owned ITV company. While it is believed that Westcountry’s financial advisers would prefer the company to float on the Stock Market bids are currently being sought.Other interested parties are thought to be HTV and Carlton Communications, though their bids are reported to have… Continue reading GWR Bids £70m For Westcountry
Party Zone, MTV’s weekly dance show, will be sponsored by the Sony Corporation from this month. Running alongside the sponsorship deal is an advertising campaign targeting the youth audience with Sony’s MiniDisc system.Boris Kaz, senior vice president of advertising sales for MTV Europe said: “We’re delighted that Sony is joining forces with MTV. Sony’s campaign… Continue reading Sony In Party Zone Campaign
Unofficial Astra figures show that Granada Plus, the UK Gold-type channel launched by Granada Sky Broadcasting last week, was the most popular of the GSB channels.Overall, Granada Plus’s highest viewing share amongst all individuals was on the first day of transmission with 1.4%. This declined during the week, reaching a low of 0.4% on Friday… Continue reading Granada Plus Most Popular GSB Channel
The weekend saw the relaunch of the Daily and Sunday Express as a new seven-day operation. Strictly speaking these papers no longer even exist: now there is just the Express, though the weekend editions are called Express on Saturday and Express on Sunday.Every day there is now a 32-page tabloid sports section, entitled The Sport,… Continue reading New Sections For Express And Mail
The Media Business Group has refused to comment on reports that it is planning to open a Scottish operation.It is thought that Allan Rich, chairman of the Media Business, and Steve Allan, the group’s chief executive, have been talking to agencies in the area with a view to forming a partnership. Barkers Communications Scotland has… Continue reading TMBG Set For Scottish Expansion
A new Internet magazine called Internet Business World will launch on November 22. The independent title will be a business-to-business publication exclusively targeting executives involved with the Web in a business context. Internet Business World will be bi-monthly and is aiming for a controlled circulation of around 30,000.…Future Publishing, which recently bought seven music titles… Continue reading New Internet Title To Launch
