..Strathmore Scottish Spring Water will sponsor the next series of Taggart in a deal worth £700,000 to cover airtime and below-the-line support. Taggart has an average audience of 12 million….The new ITV factual series, Coltrane in a Cadillac, is to be sponsored by Coors Extra Gold. The series starts on Tuesday 4 May and is… Continue reading Sponsorship News..
From May 20 Sky Sports intends to screen live race meetings two evenings a week, with plans to feature a race every fifteen minutes during each two-hour broadcast. The first race will begin at 7.15pm on the 20th and covers four races from Uttoxeter.Sky Sports is the first British television station to broadcast evening horse… Continue reading Sky Sports To Screen Race Meetings
Andrew Keyte has been appointed marketing director of UK Gold. He was formerly commercial manager with Warner Home Video.
..Strathmore Scottish Spring Water will sponsor the next series of Taggart in a deal worth £700,000 to cover airtime and below-the-line support. Taggart has an average audience of 12 million….The new ITV factual series, Coltrane in a Cadillac, is to be sponsored by Coors Extra Gold. The series starts on Tuesday 4 May and is… Continue reading Sponsorship News..
Chairman of SelecTV, Michael Buckley has left the company following a disagreement with fellow directors. His position in the company, which produces Lovejoy and Birds of a Feather, will be taken over by Peter Laister, a non-executive director.
Belfast-based title, The Sunday News, has been closed due to a shortage of funds according to Century Newspapers. The ABC July-December figure for the paper stood at 19,558, a fall of almost 80,000 since its circulation peak.Sunday News: 0232 244441
Midland Independent Newspapers is planning to change the names of the eight titles recently purchased from Thomson Free Newspapers, with ‘Trader’ being the most likely choice. Titles in the sale included the Leicester, Derby, Loughborough and Burton Herald & Post.
The Sunday Times is claiming a 76% sales increase in the Republic of Ireland for the past couple of weeks, as well as a rise of 23% in Northern Ireland, going from 60,000 to 93,000. Andrew Neil is accrediting the increase to recent attempts by the paper to increase its Irish coverage.Meanwhile, reports in yesterday’s… Continue reading Sunday Times Gets Overall High
..Formerly a Northern & Shell title, CD Review has now been taken over by Boxwell Publishing, an overseas trade magazine house…..Auto Express is planning a relaunch next month, complete with a new glossy cover and larger classified ads section…..News International is launching an 8-page magazine, Shoppers Friend, on Sunday, inserting it in the Sunday Times,… Continue reading Magazine Snippets…
It is seen as highly unlikely that the takeover of ITN by a Carlton Communications-led consortium will be referred to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission, according to reports. This means that the takeover will likely be finalised this week, although neither ITN nor Carlton is willing to comment on the situation.The case has already been… Continue reading Carlton/ITN Deal Draws To Close
