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It was announced yesterday that all 219.68m shares on offer by MGN, 54.8% of the total, had been sold at 170p to separate institutions. The sale will raise £373m gross.

Independent Radio Sales has won the representation for Pirate FM, the Cornwall ILR station from MS&M.IRS has also moved offices, as well as promoting David Salem to head of business development and Steve Jordan to national sales manager for Kiss FM’s team.The new address and telephone number for IRS is:1 Carriage Row163 Eversholt StreetLondonNW1 1BUTel:… Continue reading IRS WINS PIRATE

IPC’s TV Times is to reduce the number of pages it carries for advertising by eight, and will switch them to editorial from 16 October.The move comes in a bid to build circulation and provide better value for readers. There will also be editorial changes such as a new family section, which will include articles… Continue reading TV Times Loses Ad Pages

The government has delayed the awaited white paper on privacy and the press, amid disagreements among ministers and the complexity of issues involved.Peter Brooke has decided to wait until responses to the Lord Chancellor’s green paper on privacy have been assessed: responses to this must be in by October 15. The government white paper is… Continue reading WHITE PAPER DELAY

It was announced yesterday that all 219.68m shares on offer by MGN, 54.8% of the total, had been sold at 170p to separate institutions. The sale will raise £373m gross.

Airport TV should launch early next year at the six British Airport Authority airports: Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen.The service will be launched by Sky Sites and will be primarily news-based, with some light entertainment features.The service will be available 17 hours per day, all the operational hours of the airport. It will… Continue reading Airport TV Early Next Year

Yesterday Central Independent Television announced pre-tax profits of £16.4m for the six months to the end of June, a rise of 9% on last year.(£15.1)

The Monopolies and Mergers Commission is to investigate the supply of films to UK cinemas.The investigation follows complaints from independent cinema owners that the main distributors will not give them access to the big blockbusting movies.Many of the modern multi-screen cinemas are owned by American companies which also distribute films and who give preferential treatment… Continue reading MMC To Look At Cinema Industry

The national newspaper’s autumn battle to win readers means that the price changes and the new supplements launching have dramatically changed the look of the nationals. There follows a summary of the major alterations: QUALITIES CHANGES DATE 1994 D.TELEGRPH- Considering newsections 20/9 & redesign FT – 10 sponsored colour 4/9 magazine supplements GUARDIAN – A5… Continue reading National Newspaper Promotions Summary

The Independent Television Commission yesterday announced that it does not consider that a video on demand service needs to be licensed as a local delivery service under part II of the 1990 Broadcasting Act.The service would be where individual programmes are transmitted by means of a telecommunication system to only one household at a time… Continue reading Video On Demand Go Ahead