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Mediawatch and Independent Sports Publications have combined to produce a basketball title which will cover the UK and American seasons.Slam Dunk. – 0608 811266

On Saturday the Financial Times launched the first edition of its quarterly colour magazine, How To Spend It. The glossy tabloid supplement, not surprisingly, has an up-market feel; it is uncluttered and full of elegant photographs. To prevent the supplement’s fashion editorial from alienating male readers, there are articles on male fashion and opinions.Aiming to… Continue reading FT – How To Spend It First Issue Review

Denise Gardner has joined Zenith Media as Research Manager. She joins from Leo Burnett, and was previously at BBH.

Tony Steward, who was heading up the Newspaper Society’s Press-Ad presentation unit, has left the company suddenly. Steve Brown is to take on some of his database responsibilities.

EMAP ‘s interim results announced this morning show pre-tax profit up from £16.6m to £22.2m, with turnover at £234.2m.

EMAP are among five bidders thought to be left in the race to take over Maclean Hunter European Publishing (publishers of BRAD) from Rogers Communications, which itself is taking over Canadian parent company, Maclean Hunter.It is claimed that up to 25 bids were made. Others remaining on the short list include Bertelsmann and Pearson.

Radio Times, which is to publish its largest single issue on November 29th (164 pages, the same size as the Xmas double issue of six years ago), could see a sales rise in 1995, according to publisher Rupert Miles, quoted in UKPG todaySales for the first six months of this year were at 1,441,280.

Qualities Among the dailies, the Times has yet again fared best in the latest round of ABC monthly circulation figures, although the effects of the price war seem to be slowing down. The Times’ circulation for October is 614,477, an increase of 38.2% year on year, but just slightly up on September, at 1.2%. The… Continue reading National Press Round-Up – October

Grampian Television has announced results for the six months ended 31 August 1994. Pre-tax profits were up by 16.6% to £1.805m, compared to £1.548m the year before.Chairman Calum MacLeod commented that, “A 5% increase in advertising revenue and a continued reduction in costs helped us to deliver another set of excellent half year results.” He… Continue reading Grampian Television Results

Gary Tonge, Engineering Controller of the Independent Television Commission has warned that the interests of viewers must be kept centre stage of any move to introduce digital terrestrial TV.Speaking at a one day conference on new technology he suggested that the current debate surrounding digital TV are more related to protecting established positions. He welcomed… Continue reading Digital TV Development For Viewers