Two applications were received by the ITC for the local delivery franchise for Taunton and Bridgwater. The applicants are: Convergence (Somerset) Limited, a jointly-owned subsidiary of The Convergence Group plc and Orbis Trust (Guernsey) Ltd. Convergence proposes to offer service to 71,300 homes by 2002. A cash bid of £426,027 was made. TeleWest Communications (Taunton… Continue reading Two Applicants For Taunton And Bridgwater
The Retail Prices Index for September came in at 162.6, taking 1985 as the base rate. This represents an increase of 2.1% on last year and an increase of 0.5% on August.For RPI trends subscribers can access MediaTel’s Encyclomedia section in Talking Windows.
Liberty Publishing is set to launch a new radio station, 963 Liberty, on the old Viva frequency. Mohammed Fayed, the owner of Liberty, bought Viva in May 1995 for £3m at a time when the station was struggling *(Fayed Buys Viva!). The station hopes to provide a “distinctive new format of speech and music” and… Continue reading Liberty Launches New Radio Station
NTL, the broadcast transmissions and telecommunications company, gave a taste of the future with a complete end-to-end digital television broadcast over the whole of Greater London. The multichannel demonstration included widescreen pictures, data services, an access system for pay-TV, and an on-screen Electronic Programme Guide (EPG) all used with decoders for television sets.NTL believe that… Continue reading NTL Demonstrates DTV
The six monthly National Newspaper ABC’s to September show only the Times and Daily Mail making any real improvements. The Times increased by nearly 10% (65,998) from the same period last year. The Daily Mail performed even better with an increase of 14.4% (261,444).The poorest performance came from the Express On Sunday, which will hope… Continue reading National Newspaper September ABCs
ITV is claiming that only 2% of homes targeted by Channel 5 have been successfully retuned and, projecting on the channel’s ‘current performance’, the 90% of homes which legally have to be retuned would not be completed until mid-1998.Research was carried out on behalf of ITV by Continental Research and RSL and was based on… Continue reading ITV Claims C5 Will Complete Retune In ’98
According to reports in yesterday’s Guardian, the Independent Television Commission (ITC) has written to Virginia Bottomley, the National Heritage Secretary, stating that the privatisation of Channel 4 could hinder the station’s remit to serve minority interests. Members of the ITC also believe that the move would make regulation for the channel much more difficult to… Continue reading ITC Opposes C4 Privatisation
The International Federation of Audit Bureaux of Circulation (IFABC) has set up a working committee that will work towards the standardised measurement and auditing of traffic at World Wide Web sites.IFABC made the move following its biennial general assembly in Washington *ABC Agrees On Web Auditing which agreed to develop a common set of minimum… Continue reading Website Auditing A Step Nearer
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
Following a full review of ABC’s certification rules, the Farnham Herald Series and the Richmond and Twickenham Times Series are no longer members of ABC.ABC: 01442 877407
