The Government is meeting this morning to discuss the publication of Sir David Calcutt’s report on press regulation, with plans to issue the report today – over two weeks earlier than planned. Revelations that have unfolded over the past couple of days have made it necessary for Prime Minister John Major to precipitate the publishing… Continue reading Calcutt Report To Be Issued Today
TMD Carat is advertising in this week’s trade press for a media director to establish its Edinburgh office (Newsline 6/1). The Scottish base is being regarded as a necessity by the agency following its recent acquistion of a KwikFit Account.
Following the announcement last week that Alec Kenny of Kenny Lockett Booth Makin was resigning from the company, Deborah Allen has been named as the agency’s new business director. Allen will join KLBM at the end of this month having given up her position of senior media planner at the Media Centre.
BBC Good Food is planning to publish several supplements to the magazine this year and is seeking sponsors to back them. It is expected that large supermarket chains will be the most likely candidates for a deal.
The Eurosport Consortium and Screensport affiliate, TESN, have decided to pool their resources and provide one sports channel (Eurosport/The European Sports Network) under the Eurosport name. The partnership is due to take effect within the next few weeks and will be available throughout Europe on Astra and Eutelsat II. According to ETN figures the new… Continue reading Satellite Sports Channels To Merge
Free editions of TV Quick will be available in the next four issues of Yorkshire On Sunday in a promotion deal struck up between the listings title and Westminster Press.
Hay Green Publishing has sold its horseriding title, Eventing, to IPC’s Specialist and Leisure Group. The division has other interests in that area with its weekly magazine, Horse & Hound , which has a circulation of over 76,000.
Over a quarter of a million viewers now watch the UK’s first adult- entertainment channel, according to the Adult Channel’s first audience survey released today. From the study, results show that a large proportion of this audience is male, under 45, ABC1 and living in southern Britain. The service has been available on Astra 1B… Continue reading Adult Channel Gets Positive Viewing
Mark Cross is leaving his position as media director with Young & Rubicam to take up a similar role at Cogent. Cross has been with Y&R for six years having previously worked with D’Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles.
Poster prices increased by 6.3% in 1992 compared to 1991, according to the latest Concord Outdoor Rates Forecast. For this year Concord is predicting that outdoor rates will rise by 3.8% over 1993, with the first quarter showing only a small rise. The second quarter will see a slight drop of 2.2% as last year’s… Continue reading Outdoor Rates Forecast 1st Qtr 1993
