The Monopolies and Mergers Commission has objected to the Daily Mail and General Trust’s £92m takeover bid for the T.Bailey Forman newspaper group. (Newsline 3/6/94 – Key 2) The MMC announced that it was opposed to DMGT’s bid for the Nottingham based regional publisher.The commission said that the bid could give DMGT too high a… Continue reading MMC Stops Daily Mail Takeover
The ITC has today readvertised the Channel 5 licence to provide a new service to commence broadcasting by January 1997. The licence will run for 10 years and will be awarded by competitive tender in accordance with the 1990 Broadcasting Act. The closing date for applications is 2 May 1995 and the ITC hopes to… Continue reading Channel 5 Advertised
ITV has released its response to the Government’s White Paper on the future of the BBC. It calls for the BBC to separate its activities. The ITVA response welcomes the White Paper, but cautions that there is a “need for the creation of a genuinely arm’s length relationship between its public service activities and increasing… Continue reading ITV Urges Division Of Activities At BBC
Roger Gane, Executive Director of RAJAR, announced in Dublin on Saturday some of the ideas being discussed to develop its methods of collecting and reporting RAJAR data, in order to make it a “stable overall media currency”.Possibilities include:-1. Altering the diary format. A diary with stick-in labels for station names is being piloted in parallel… Continue reading Proposals For Developments To Rajar
National NewspapersAmong the national daily newspapers, only the Times, Financial Times, Sun and Today recorded year-on-year increases in their Average Issue Readership estimates for April to September 1994. The only Sunday paper to record an increase was the Sunday Telegraph.The effect of News International’s pricing policy is apparent in this round of figures, with the… Continue reading NRS Commentary – Apr-Sep’94
The Radio Advertising Bureau announced at the Commercial Radio Conference in Dublin this weekend that it is to launch a £2.5m generic advertising campaign for all commercial radio.The campaign will target UK business decision-makers and decision influencers and bring them up to date with commercial radio. The campaign is known as the Window campaign, from… Continue reading RAB Campaign Will Encourage Massive Radio Growth
A report to be submitted to the United Nations claims that freedom of expression in the UK is hampered by secrecy laws and media monopolies. The report, from the Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom, and Liberty, says that UK media ownership regulations breach Article 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights,… Continue reading UK Media Ownership “Too Restricted”
The Radio Authority has today issued details of its plans for the next phase of Independent Local Radio development. These include more “regional” licences, as well as new local smaller scale licences.New Regional LicencesThe Radio Authority will not offer any further regional licences in the areas which have just been awarded such licences, until these… Continue reading Radio Authority Announces Further Licences
Ziff-Davis, the US publisher of computer magazines, newspapers and books, is to be acquired by Forstmann Little, a New York investment firm, for $1.4bn (£857m) in cash.The sale of Ziff-Davis has attracted interest because Ziff is heavily involved with the new multimedia market, including computer on-line publishing and CD-Rom titles. Reed Elsevier, Time Warner and… Continue reading Ziff-Davis Bought For $1.4bn
The Independent Television Commission will formally advertise the licence for Channel 5 on Tuesday 1 November. The ITC will have to advertise two separate propositions for the channel: one to reach just over half the UK population, and the other nearly three quarters.The reason for the doubt is that the ITC is still applying for… Continue reading Channel 5 To Be Advertised On Tuesday
