The digital television alliance between Bertelsmann, Canal Plus, Havas and British Sky Broadcasting has collapsed according to reports in the national press, although BSkyB would not confirm this when MediaTel spoke to them earlier. Bertelsmann said on Wednesday that BSkyB, controlled by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation, had unreasonably pulled out of the deal.Canal Plus and… Continue reading Murdoch Digital Television Alliance Appears To Be Crumbling
… Kiss FM, in association with Portrait Marketing Ltd, has launched a Kiss 100 magazine – ‘The Lick’. ‘Preview’ copies of the magazine (255,000) will be distributed to homes in the London area on June 10th by Royal Mail Door to Door. Targeted at 16-24 year olds, the magazine will consist of 28 pages in… Continue reading Magazine News
The FA Premier League announced late last night that a £670 million deal with BSkyB has been reached for the live television rights to the Premiership for the period up to the end of the 2000/2001 season. Highlights to Premier League matches have been awarded to the BBC, in an agreement worth £73 million, also… Continue reading No Turning Back As Sky Keep Rights To Live Premiership Football
The new sports daily, Sport First, which was due to hit the news stands yesterday has had its launch date delayed until early August. Bob Harris, editor of the paper said that although they had produced a very successful live dummy, the daily still had teething troubles and he saw no point in launching it… Continue reading Launch Delay For New Sports Daily
The ITC yesterday launched the second stage of its public consultation on the licensing of digital terrestrial television. The Broadcasting Bill, currently under consideration in the House of Commons, sets out a two-tier licensing structure under which the carriers of the services, the multiplex operators, are to be licensed separately from the services themselves.These licenses… Continue reading Digital Television – The Second Stage
A new survey carried out by Mintel into the lifestyles and aspirations of 20-34 year-olds shows that buying new cars, going on good holidays and paying off non-mortgage debt are high on their list of priorities.Other results from the survey of 1,500 individuals show that as many as 20% of today’s 20-34 year-olds could remain… Continue reading Holidays And Cars Priority For Young Adults
In a new measure of cable penetration, the ITC’s latest cable statistics show that 30.6% of homes in cabled areas are connected to the local system. These are the homes which take at least one of the services provided by the local cable operator, whether cable television, cable telephone or both.ITC’s latest statistics, for the… Continue reading Cable Services Taken By Over 30% Of Homes
News International, the owner of The Times newspaper, yesterday complained to the Audited Bureau of Circulation over its decision not to include circulation figures from Monday’s edition of the newspaper. The Times which is normally priced at 30p on weekdays and 40p on Saturdays is being sold at 10p from this week to launch Britain’s… Continue reading Times In Circulation Row
Kleenex has signed as sponsor to Carlton and Central Television’s new service, “The Pollen Count”. The 25 second bulletin with seven second front and end credits goes out three times a day, around the weather or news, for the next six weeks.As well as informing viewers of the pollen count each day and providing a… Continue reading Kleenex And IBM In Sponsorship Deals
The Stars In Their Eyes Grand Final, shown on Saturday 25th May, was watched by over 11.5 million people. The variety show, which was won by a Marti Pellow lookalike, attracted an audience of 11.58 million and a consolidated share of the audience of 54%; this made it the most watched programme on the Saturday… Continue reading Goodnight Of Viewing For ITV’s Stars In Their Eyes
