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Pearson has agreed to buy a 10% stake in Television Broadcasts (TVB), the leading Hong Kong broadcaster for £107m. The deal is conditional on approval from shareholders and the Hong Kong Broadcasting Authority.

The MRG is to hold some more evening classes covering the very basic methodologies, scopes and analyses of media research sources in the UK. A total of sixteen subjects will be covered in depth starting on March 8th and finishing on May 10th.Contact Alan Copage : 071 344 0077

On the second day of the High Court hearing into an injunction which Saatchi & Saatchi is seeking against Maurice Saatchi, the court was told that Maurice is entitled to poach any staff from his former agency, and cause considerable damage to it, as long as he does not incite Saatchi employees to break their… Continue reading Maurice Allowed To Poach Saatchi Staff Court Is Told

Gramophone Publications Limited is to launch a new magazine on May 1st. International Classical Record Collector, a quarterly title with a cover price of £3.50 launches with an intial print run of 3,500.Editorially covering opinion and research relating to all aspects of classical recordings from the past, ICRC is expected to achieve most of its… Continue reading New Classical Magazine

National Daily NewspapersAmong the national daily newspapers, only the News International titles recorded year on year increases in their Average Issue Readership estimates for July to December 1994. The affects of the newspaper price war are again apparent, with the Times AIR increasing by 22.1% year on year to 1,558,000, and the Sun up by… Continue reading NRS Commentary Jul-Dec 94

At the debate yesterday by MPs on the Future of the BBC White Paper, Stephen Dorrell, national heritage secretary, strengthened the hopes of the BBC that the licence fee will remain its main source of finance for the foreseeable future.While under pressure from MPs calling for the ending of state funding he insisted that the… Continue reading BBC Licence Fee Backed

XL is a new monthly health, fitness and lifestyle magazine for men, launched on the 9th of February. A glossy, high profile feel, XL has 117 pages and a £2.95 cover price. It will, say the publishers, Stonehart, appeal to 25-45 year old men in the ABC1 socio economic group.Editorially, XL has a distinctly sporty… Continue reading XL First Issue Review

A trade press article claiming that the Granada Group is about to mount a joint bid for the Channel 5 licence with BSkyB has been denied by both companies.Chris Hopson, Head of Public Affairs at Granada said, “We are talking to a lot of people, including BSkyB. Our position remains the same – we have… Continue reading Granada Doubtful Re C5 Bid

Advertisers were looking to the future with a discussion on how the advertising industry can fully utilise the quickly evolving sphere of the interactive media. Bernard Balderston, Media Manager, Proctor & Gamble, said “It has become obvious that multimedia and interactive television will bring us to the threshold of the rebirth of marketing communications. Indeed,… Continue reading Pathways Through The Interactive Jungle

According to the Institute for Public Policy Research, the BBC is too open to political influence. In a discussion paper The Future of the BBC the IPPR says that the Corporation, as the country’s largest quango, must be free from political influence.The IPPR says that it can not be truly independent as long as the… Continue reading BBC Open To Political Influence