Viacom International, the US cable television group is to buy Paramount Communications, the entertainment and publishing company, for $8.2bn (£5.32b) in the biggest US media takeover since Time and Warner in 1989.Viacom’s channels include MTV and Nickelodeon. Paramount is best known for its Paramount Pictures Film Studio and its Paramount theme parks. The deal should… Continue reading Viacom To Takeover Paramount
PopularsThe latest national newspaper ABCs for August’93 show that reducing cover prices does have a direct bearing on sales. The Sun’s August’s ABC is up by more than 350,000 on June, before the price war began, to 3,832,397. The newspaper has also recorded its first year-on-year increase in its 6-monthly ABC for well over a… Continue reading National Press Round-Up
Viacom International, the US cable television group is to buy Paramount Communications, the entertainment and publishing company, for $8.2bn (£5.32b) in the biggest US media takeover since Time and Warner in 1989.Viacom’s channels include MTV and Nickelodeon. Paramount is best known for its Paramount Pictures Film Studio and its Paramount theme parks. The deal should… Continue reading Viacom To Takeover Paramount
Carlton Communications, the television company which has the independent TV franchise for London, and a stake in ITN, is interested in acquiring a stake in Newspaper Publishing, owners of The Independent and Independent on Sunday.The move is seen as a challenge to the regulations limiting cross-ownership of newspaper and TV stations, and to media magnate… Continue reading Carlton May Buy Into Independent
The ABC figures for the National Daily Newspapers released on MediaTel on Friday afternoon contained one error; the figure for the month of August for the Mail on Sunday should read 1,915,396 and not 1,932,598. This is a decrease on the July 1993 figure of 1%.
The Daily and Sunday Express are to launch the latest in their travel promotions on Sunday 19 September, following the Concorde promotion.Readers must collect two tokens to qualify for a ‘two for one’ flights promotion with Air UK.Mail Newspapers is bringing back the National Lottery Game, offering readers the chance to win up to £100,000.… Continue reading Newspaper Promotions
Yesterday the new home interest title from IPC, Homes and Ideas, was launched with an initial print run of 350,000. Editor Penny Harris, in a welcoming letter, states that it is designed “to help you make the most of your home”. The magazine is full of tips and ideas on ways to improve the home,… Continue reading HOME INTEREST PRESS OVERVIEW
Last night Dame Shirley Porter, LBC’s chairman, told a public meeting called to save LBC that it would not mount a legal challenge to the Radio Authority’s decision to remove its licence. Instead LBC will bid for one of the new FM frequencies to be advertised next year by the authority.A judicial review would take… Continue reading LBC TO BID FOR NEW LICENCE
Batchelors and Virgin 1215 have joined up in a promotion for Batchelors Cup-a-Soup, in which Virgin receives branding on 16 million Cup-a-Soup boxes, while Batchelors will receive promotion during Kevin Greening’s lunch time programme.Greening will ask listeners to name where they would most like to drink a mug of Cup-a-Soup; the winner will have the… Continue reading Batchelors And Virgin In Joint Deal
