News International has this week extended the Times‘s aggressive promotional push. As well as its Monday edition still selling at 10p, this week readers will be able to pick up free any one of a number of magazines which include Cosmopolitan, Company, She, Esquire and Country Living.To receive their magazine readers must collect any four… Continue reading News International Promos Continue
The Daily Mail & General Trust is believed to be in negotiations with BSkyB to set up a new cable channel.The channel, dubbed “Daily Mail TV”, would be aimed at a mostly female audience broadcasting lifestyle and fashion programming to mimic the Mail‘s mid-market appeal. Under the terms of the deal the channel would launch… Continue reading Daily Mail TV Speculation
Scottish Radio has announced that it will be acquiring Downtown Radio of Northern Ireland for almost £9.7m.Scottish Radio has interests in nine radio stations in Scotland and, following interim results in May *Scottish Radio Profits Rise To £3.23m which showed good growth, it was widely believed that the group was in expansion mood. Downtown last… Continue reading Scot Radio Acquires Irish Station
Conde Nast, publisher of Vogue, House & Gardens and Vanity Fair, will be launching two new titles next year.A UK edition of the American Conde Nast Traveller will launch in September 1997, while GQ Active will go monthly in April 1997. The Traveler was launched in the United States in 1987 and its circulation currently… Continue reading Conde Nast To Launch Two Magazines
The main mover last week was United News & Media on news that it is putting its regional newspaper business up for sale *United Set For Regional Sell-Off. The City seemed to approve of the move, with shares jumping 18.5p to 723.5p. After this initial excitement the share price dropped, though at 719p this is… Continue reading Sharewatch W/E 30/8/96
H.Samuel, the country’s largest jeweller, is sponsoring the ‘Sammys’, this year’s National TV Awards at a ceremony at the Royal Albert Hall on October 8.The National TV awards were piloted last year on ITV and seek to recognise excellence in popular television, with the public voting from a designated list of nominees. The 16 categories… Continue reading H.Samuel Sponsors National TV Awards
Tomorrow sees Yorkshire Tyne-Tees Television releasing interim results, while on Wednesday the Advertising Standards Authority releases its monthly complaints bulletin. Friday sees the long-awaited relaunch of Punch by Mohammed Al-Fayed’s Liberty Publishing which bought the title in June.Features on Newsline this week will include a TV viewing summary and a report on the Commercial Radio… Continue reading The Week Ahead
Sue Robinson has been named as the new editor of Radio Times and will be the first woman to edit the title.She has been with the magazine since 1980 and her last position was as executive editor. The appointment comes after Nicholas Brett was promoted from editor to publishing director and coincides with moves by… Continue reading First Female Editor For Radio Times
Emap Elan have launched a preview issue of their new title Minx, bound to this fortnight’s copy of More. Aimed at women aged 18-24, it claims to be ‘less patronising’ than other young women magazines and will try not to be a ‘cut-price therapy centre’.In terms of editorial the magazine seems to follow the same… Continue reading Minx – Preview Issue Review
Channel 5 Broadcasting has today announced that David Elstein is taking over as Chief Executive Officer. He will join the Board with immediate effect and take up his new role on September 16. He has left BSkyB, where he was Head Of Programming since January 1993, to take up the post. Ian Ritchie, the former… Continue reading Elstein Moves To C5
