ITV has today released details of its Autumn 94 schedule, with the emphasis on new and returning drama as the highlight of the season, together with a themed week, “The War Machine”.“Staying one step ahead of the competition is getting increasingly tough in this new multi-channel environment”, said Marcus Plantin, but he emphasised the new… Continue reading ITV Concentrates On Drama For Autumn
A consortium of broadcasters and organisations working with visually impaired people have launched a trial of Audetel, a system which provides an aural commentary to selected television programmes.For the next four months, selected programmes on ITV and BBC will be broadcast with a data signal which carries an audio commentary describing what happens in the… Continue reading Test TV Transmissions For Visually Impaired
Royal Liver Assurance, the financial services group, is to sponsor a new snooker tournament, the #35,000 Home International Open Handicap Snooker Championship, open to amateurs and professionals. Royal Liver Assurance already sponsors the UK Professional Championships.
Today is launching a Scottish edition of its daily paper from today. It has gone on sale today at the special price of 10p; the planned price for the next few months is 20p, 5p less than the usual cover price. In a spoiler move the Daily Mirror is also cutting its price to 10p… Continue reading Scotland Today – Price War
The ITC has warned Yorkshire Television to tone down the plots of the soap, Emmerdale, after hundreds of complaints. In its quarterly review of programme complaints, the ITC says it is concerned about the introduction of a “tougher and more violent style” in the soap. The review says, “particular care is required in a programme… Continue reading ITC Warns Soap
Independent Television News has appealed to the government to postpone the enforcement of any ownership changes following the ITV mergers.No single shareholder is allowed to own more than 20% of ITN; however, the Carlton takeover of Central and the Granada takeover of LWT mean that Carlton and Granada each own 36% of ITN. The other… Continue reading ITN Ownership Problems
The ITC has issued an invitation to apply for a local delivery licence covering Thetford, Diss, Bury St Edmunds, Sudbury, Clacton on Sea and surrounding areas. This is the fourth local delivery licence to be advertised by the ITC. The deadline for applications is 17 October.
Overnight ratings for the World Cup Final which was shown simultaneously on BBC1 and ITV show the BBC won hands down, achieving 62.8% share of male viewing.BBC fared particularly well among ABC1 men, achieving 45.3 ABC1 men ratings at 23.00 ITV achieved only an average of 9.3 ABC1 men. Amongst all men, ITV reached an… Continue reading BBC Achieves 62.8% Male Share
NBC Super Channel has responded to yesterday’s announcement by the government that Channel 5 can go ahead by announcing its interest. NBC has said it is exploring the viability of the channel, and is talking to several companies to look into the possibility of creating a consortium to bid for the C5 licence if and… Continue reading NBC To Bid For Channel 5
The Financial Times is to trial a colour magazine with its Saturday edition on November 19. The one-off magazine will be a trial edition. If it proves successful it will become a quarterly regular. This is not the first time the FT has trialled colour magazines; there have been a series of one-offs, such as… Continue reading FT To Trial Colour Magazine
