Haymarket Magazines’ Car Choice is to be incorporated into What Car? from July. The move comes as part of other changes at Haymarket; Audiophile, which covers upmarket hi-fi systems, is to be incorporated into the more general titles What Hi-Fi? Your Classic, the DIY title is to be sold off to allow more concentration on… Continue reading Magazine Closures
Southwestern Bell, the US regional telecomms group, yesterday announced it was abandoning a plan to form a $4.9bn cable TV partnership with Cox Enterprises the privately-owned media group. This is the second large link-up between a US cable company and a telephone group to be abandoned this year. Bell Atlantic and Tele-Communications Inc. dropped their… Continue reading US Telephone/Cable TV Link Up Abandoned
The BBC is to introduce a monthly direct debit system for paying the licence fee. The budget plan will allow viewers to spread the £84.50 annual cost by paying £7 a month.
TSMS sales director Steve Platt is to join Carlton TV as sales director of the new Carlton/Central airtime sales organisation. Platt will report to Martin Bowley, managing director designate of the new organisation. The sales operation’s new structure is expected to be in place by April 15. 80 staff will be recruited in addition to… Continue reading Appointments
Allied Radio, whose principal stations are Mercury and County Sound in the Home Counties, yesterday announced plans to reconstruct its share and loan capital and make a rights issue.The shares were suspended at 10.5p. The restructuring will involve the conver- sion of £5.8m loan stock into shares. Last June Allied revealed pre-tax losses of £1.17m… Continue reading Allied Radio Restructure
Pre-tax profits of Home Counties Newspapers fell from £863,000 to £459,000 in the year to end-December. Turnover was up from £22.9m to £24m.
The board of Saatchi and Saatchi has decided that both chairman and chief executive, Maurice Saatchi and Charles Scott, are to stay in their jobs.In recent weeks there were open hostilities between the two men and it looked increasingly likely that one of them would have to leave.MEDIA RESEARCH SHOP MOVEThe Media Research Shop has… Continue reading Saatchi Chiefs To Stay
Weekend press reports that Peter Brooke intends to move the 9pm watershed to 10pm are groundless, the Department of National Heritage has told MediaTel this morning.The Heritage Secretary is to meet media regulators in the near future to discuss violence on television, but the moving of the 9pm watershed is not on the agenda.Currently the… Continue reading Watershed Likley To Remain
Auto Express ad manager Sue Prue has left to join Complete Car as key accounts manager, working alongside ad manager Jessica Trace.
The Design Council is to suspend publication of its monthly Design in May, following a restructure of the government-funded organisation. The Design Council is to scale down its commercial activities. Design may well be launched at the end of the year on a non-commercial basis.Construction Weekly from Morgan Grampian has been bought and closed by… Continue reading Magazine Closures
