The Guardian’s RecruitNet is set to become one of the biggest recruitment sites on the Internet. The site provides competition to the already existing Internet appointments sections in the Times Online and Electronic Telegraph. RecruitNet also allows advertisers to place basic text advertisements free of charge from Monday to Thursday and Saturday. Job seekers will… Continue reading Web Round-Up (w/e 25/10/96)
Sky Scottish, STV and BSkyB’s cable and satellite venture, has announced details of its schedule for its launch on November 1. 30 minute programmes will run daily between 18.00 and 20.00 straight after Granada’s Talk TV on the same frequency. The launch programme, This is Sky Scottish, will be presented by David Rintoul of Doctor… Continue reading Sky Scottish Reveals Line-Up
According to David Elstein, Channel 5’s chief executive, between 70 and 80% of the population will be will be able to receive Channel 5 at the end of its first year. He also believes a viewing share of 5% will be achieved.Channel 5 has encountered retuning problems and certain parties believe the Channel will not… Continue reading Elstein Sets C5 Targets
Trojan Television are launching The Auction Channel in time for Spring 1997. Worldwide auctions will be broadcast live via cable and satellite, to subscribers, for 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Viewers, with prior arrangement, will be able to interact with auction programmes via the telephone.Bonhams, one of the world’s leading auctioneers, has… Continue reading Auction Channel Set To Launch
Sunday Business Newspapers has launched a new weekly international entitled Sunday Business, A Week In Business. The title was launched last weekend at 85p and has similar editorial to the Sunday Business.…The Daily Star’s price increased from 28p to 30 this week. Also this week the Times increased its price from 30p to 35p on… Continue reading Sunday Business Launches New Title
Qualities September ABCs released on Friday show that among the daily quality newspapers the Times has performed the best, further narrowing the gap between itself and the Daily Telegraph. The News International title increased its circulation to 810,493 copies in comparison to the Telegraph which grew to just over 1 million copies. The FT and… Continue reading National Newspaper Round-Up – September
ITV is believed to be planning a new soap which will go head to head with EastEnders in the Tyne-Tees region.Quayside will be based around the lives of young professionals in a Northern docklands setting complete with swish bars, restaurants and penthouse flats. The programme is set for launch on January 7 and, depending on… Continue reading EastEnders To Get New Rival
The IPC Weeklies Group has announced the company’s biggest magazine launch in eight years with the publication of Now tomorrow.Supported by a £3 million campaign the title will be glossy and upmarket, cost 60p and have an initial print-run of 1.2 million. The first issue will have a special price of 30p. Editorially, Now will… Continue reading IPC Launch Women’s Weekly
The Independent Television Commission has announced that by Tuesday’s deadline all fifteen ITV companies together with Channel 4, Channel 5, S4C and Teletext had confirmed their intention to launch digital services in 1998.There will be six digital multiplexes, or ‘frequencies’, on which channels will be carried: the first will carry BBC services; the second has… Continue reading TV Companies Guarantee Digital Places
According to sources, BSkyB is considering approaching BARB to work out how viewing share will be calculated when its digital television service is launched next year. It is understood that BSkyB are questioning whether BARB’s satellite panel is large enough to measure the amount of channels BSkyB are planning to offer.A spokesperson from BARB said… Continue reading BSkyB To Approach BARB
