The Evening Standard City pages together with the two main news and sports pages are now available on the Internet.The website, which launched yesterday, will be updated daily as each edition of the paper is printed. The site shows Standard pages on the right of the screen exactly as they appear in the paper and… Continue reading Evening Standard Launches Net Site
Kiss FM has announced that it will be applying for the East Midland’s radio licence which is being advertised by the Radio Authority (Newsline 26/02). If successful Kiss FM will broadcast to a region that includes Nottingham, Leicester and Derby with a potential audience of 1.5 million adults.The bid represents a partnership between independently owned… Continue reading Kiss FM Bid For East Midlands Licence
The Radio Authority has announced that six radio stations will be competing for the new radio licence covering south-west London. The applicants to run the licence, which covers the London Boroughs of Kingston-upon-Thames, Sutton and Merton, are: Crown FM (Radio Riverside, David Dimbleby, 0181 940 6668) community information and adult contemporary music Eclipse FM (Eclipse… Continue reading Six Stations Bid For New London Licence
RevenueCombined ITV/C4 revenue figures for February, based on agency estimates, came in at £153.61 million, an increase of 2.4% year on year. The ITV only figure, at £117.74 million was up just 0.2% year on year whilst Channel 4’s figure, at £35.8 million was up by 10.5%. Channel 4’s share, at 24% was an improvement… Continue reading TV Round-Up – February
The National Magazine Company’s House Beautiful will be reducing the price of its June issue by 50p to £1. The publishing company say that this is to coincide with a peak in the market during this period. In the same month IPC Magazines will be relaunching Ideal Home magazine. It is believed that it will… Continue reading Competition Among Home Interest Mags
The Radio Authority has promoted two of its original team to become Directors and manage the RAB activity.Andrew Ingram is promoted to Director of Account Planning with a focus on the customer services of the RAB, while Justin Sampson will manage RAB’s research, administration and information teams as Director of Operations.Douglas McArthur, managing director of… Continue reading RAB Appoints Directors
The Daily Express is to launch its new sports supplement on Monday 29 April. The 24-page pull out will feature a full-page full colour photograph of the weekend’s main sports events each week.The supplement will feature a guide to sports results and league tables, a “Monday Interview” with leading sporting names, a weekly sports diary… Continue reading Express Launches Weekly Sports Supplement
Conrad Black’s Hollinger International and The Telegraph plc have announced a recommended offer to acquire all of the remaining issued ordinary shares of The Telegraph plc not at present owned by Hollinger. The offer, at 560p per share values the group at £763 million. Holllinger International already indirectly owns 64% of and therefore controls, the… Continue reading Hollinger To Acquire All Of Telegraph Plc
An on-line business information service called News EyeQ today launches a trial beta version to test reaction before a general release next month.News EyeQ is a joint venture between DataTimes Corporation and News International and will provide access to a database of some 6000 information sources from around the world. This includes a large collection… Continue reading On-Line Business Service To Launch
The ITC has today published its 1995 Performance Reviews of the ITV companies, Channel 4, GMTV and Teletext.The reviews indicate general satisfaction with the performance of ITV and Channel 4, but there are a number of problems concerning the broadcasters which the ITC are not satisfied with. The major concern of the ITC regards the… Continue reading ITC Publishes 1995 Performance Reviews
