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The Daily Express is launching a joint promotion with Marks & Spencer on 19 November 1994. The winner will receive 10 years of free food shopping at Marks and Spencer, plus a further 10 runner up prizes of £60 worth of shopping per week for a year.The promotion will be supported by editorial in the… Continue reading Express/M&S Joint Promotion
Lord Wakeham, the former Conservative cabinet minister, is to be the new chairman of the Press Complaints Commission. The appointment will be announced formally next week after talks with Lord McGregor, the present chairman, on the timing of his retirement.
Weekend press articles report that Ward Thomas, Chairman of YTTV will have informal talks with Burce Gyngell, former TV-am chairman, about the possibility of Gyngell taking over at Yorkshire. Ward Thomas is expected to retire in 1996.
The Scotsman has relaunched this week, into a two section paper. The second section will be called Business Daily, except for Mondays when it will be the Sports Daily.
British Sky Broadcasting’s flotation is to get under way next week, with the issue of a pathfinder prospectus. The flotation, which will offer 20% of the share capital is expected to raise anywhere between £2bn and £5bn.Smaller investors are being particularly targeted, with high street banks signed up to handle the offer. Subscribers are invited… Continue reading BSKYB Flotation Details Next Week
Gordon Terris, ad director at the Daily Record and Sunday Mail is to leave the company, in a round of departures. Noel Young, group managing editor has retired, as has John Enos, editorial manager. Circulation director Colin McClatchie has also left. Ad controller Ian McQueen and classified manager Patricia Moore will manage the department until… Continue reading Appointments
The combined TV revenue figure for September, based on agency estimates came in at £171.7m, up by 9% on September 1993 and 35.2% on August 1994. This is the second highest figure this year, behind May. ITV’s revenue for the month came in at £136.27m, up 6.4% year on year; Channel 4’s revenue came in… Continue reading Television Round Up – September
Last night’s MRG evening meeting on the Press Price War attempted to answer questions such as what opportunities does price cutting offer advertisers, and will they have to make up the short fall in revenue by paying increased advertising costs?First to speak was Stella Beaumont from the Guardian. Stella attributed the Guardian’s immunity to the… Continue reading MRG Evening Meeting – Press Price War
According to an article in today’s Financial Times, BSkyB is negotiating a deal with Independent Television News to supply the news for its 24-hour news channel, Sky News. If the deal does go ahead, it would mean only two major news suppliers in the UK, BBC and ITN.Talks are said to be well advanced, involving… Continue reading ITN May Supply BSKYB News