Pirate FM, Cornwall and West Devon’s new radio station, has announced a trading profit of £10,500 for its first six months in transmission. Company chairman, James St Aubyn, says “In the financial projections in our application document, we had not anticipated trading profitably until our second year of operation”.
Granada Television has been accused by the Shadow Heritage Secretary, Ann Clwyd, of concentrating more on making profits than its initial task of programme making. She has called on the Independent Television Commission to withdraw the company’s licence due to an excessive breach of contract.Programming promises in Granada’s franchise application have been broken, according to… Continue reading Granada Accused Of Breaching Contract
Following the acquisition of 14 titles from International Thomson Business Publishing, Emap has shuffled the magazines around, fitting them into individual sections. Broadcast, TV World, Screen International and Screen Ads will move into Emap Media and be based at the company’s Bowling Green Lane office. The retail magazines will go to Emap Maclaren, Retail Jeweller… Continue reading Emap Settles ITBP Titles
Pirate FM, Cornwall and West Devon’s new radio station, has announced a trading profit of £10,500 for its first six months in transmission. Company chairman, James St Aubyn, says “In the financial projections in our application document, we had not anticipated trading profitably until our second year of operation”.
Granada Television has been accused by the Shadow Heritage Secretary, Ann Clwyd, of concentrating more on making profits than its initial task of programme making. She has called on the Independent Television Commission to withdraw the company’s licence due to an excessive breach of contract.Programming promises in Granada’s franchise application have been broken, according to… Continue reading Granada Accused Of Breaching Contract
United Newspapers (UN) signed a £200m distribution contract with Northern & Shell last summer which it is now attempting to dissolve by sueing a subsidiary of its own company. UN believes that the deal is not working out according to plan and is “increasingly difficult to operate” but Northern, which is planning legal action, describes… Continue reading United Newspapers In Dispute With N&S
The Government has been told that it does indeed have the power to ban the controversial pornographic channel, Red Hot Television (formerly Red Hot Dutch) according to Collette Flesch, director general of EC’s Communication & Culture units.Speaking at the Financial Times Cable & Satellite conference yesterday Flesch seemed puzzled by the Government’s efforts to get… Continue reading Government Has Power To Ban Red Hot TV
UK SATELLITE TELEVISIONRecently appointed head of programming at BSkyB, David Elstein set out to show how much the television environment has changed since the launch of Sky and BSB in 1989 and how increasing competition is causing a growing upheaval in the relationship between consumers and suppliers of television.He points out that BSkyB has pioneered… Continue reading FT Cable & Satellite Conference
The Guardian & Manchester Evening News is thought to be in negotiations with Lonrho to discuss a buy-out of The Observer. The newspaper group has made bids for the paper in the past, all of which have been rejected.
Yesterday saw the opening of the Financial Times annual Cable & Satellite conference with speakers including William H Roedy, chief executive officer of MTV Europe who outlined the current situation in the Pan-European market and explained ‘lessons’ they have learned at MTV about how to make it a viable business.David Hatch, advisor to the director… Continue reading FT Cable
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