Sunset Radio, after being forced to stop transmission last week by National Transcommunications Limited, is back on air. (Newsline – 19/8)The Manchester soul station had defaulted on payments for transmission services, but has now agreed to pay all fees in advance to NTL until 24 October when the contract will end by mutual agreement.
The Telegraph newspaper group which publishes The Daily and the Sunday Telegraph has announced interim pre-tax profits. Pre-tax profits for the six months to the end of June rose 60% to £34.6m against £21.6m previously. Turnover improved from £119.9m to £128.1m. This was largely due to profits from disposals and interests in associated companies.Independent Newspapers,… Continue reading Newspaper Profits Announced
Yesterday the ITV Network unveiled a £25m investment in soccer coverage and a new team of presenters.Included in the new schedule is coverage of the World Cup, of all three European club competitions, the Coca Cola Cup and regional soccer from the Endsleigh League.The coverage will be hosted by Matthew Lorenzo, who will be joined… Continue reading ITV INVESTS IN SOCCER COVERAGE
The Aegis group, the holding company of Europe’s largest media buying and planning group yesterday announced profits for the first six months of 1993.The figure for pre-tax profits was £13.2m, compared to break even in the first half of last year, and a loss of £1.9m for the year to end of December 1992. Turnover… Continue reading Aegis Profits Announced
The Aegis group, the holding company of Europe’s largest media buying and planning group yesterday announced profits for the first six months of 1993.The figure for pre-tax profits was £13.2m, compared to break even in the first half of last year, and a loss of £1.9m for the year to end of December 1992. Turnover… Continue reading Aegis Profits Announced
Media Vision Research has developed a service to provide detailed information on the viewing of pre-recorded videos, called VideoTrak.VideoTrak findings are based on data collected from the BARB panel. MVR encodes videos with a signal that is read by the people-meters in the BARB homes when a video is played. The system distinguishes between viewing… Continue reading MVR Videotrak
The European is to change its editorial to become more analytical and business focused. This follows 14 job losses last week.The marketing manager Carina Pierre told MediaTel that there will not be any dramatic changes, but a gradual change in emphasis. The front page has already been altered to include a listing of companies contained… Continue reading European Changes Style
Carlsberg Export this week signs a deal with C4 to sponsor Italian Football. The deal worth about £1m will last one year and will tie the lager to 2 weekly programmes – Football Italia on Sundays and Gazetta Italia on Saturday mornings. WH Smith is to sponsor a new music series on Virgin 1215 called… Continue reading Radio And Television Sponsorship Latest
Carlsberg Export this week signs a deal with C4 to sponsor Italian Football. The deal worth about £1m will last one year and will tie the lager to 2 weekly programmes – Football Italia on Sundays and Gazetta Italia on Saturday mornings. WH Smith is to sponsor a new music series on Virgin 1215 called… Continue reading Radio And Television Sponsorship Latest
The latest motoring magazine Carweek from EMAP launches today with an initial print run of 300,000.Carweek is made up of two sections, the outer full of features and news and the inner a guide to buying and selling new and used cars. With both sections having similar pagination (the outer section has 56 pages and… Continue reading CARWEEK – FIRST ISSUE REPORT
