Regional newspaper and magazine publisher, Regional Independent Media (RIM), has announced that it is to axe around 250 jobs in a rationalisation and development programme. The job losses will be spread across the Group’s ten operating companies in the North of England. The greatest losses will be at RIM’s primary production centres in Leeds and… Continue reading Regional Independent To Cut Jobs Under Development Plans
The Mirror is claiming a victory over its main competitor, the Sun, in the November ABC sales figures which are officially released this Friday.The Mirror says its sales for November are up by 66,000 year on year, where the Sun‘s have fallen (but only by 0.9%). Mirror Group’s managing director, Roger Eastoe, claims that the… Continue reading Mirror Claims November Circulation Success
Channel 4 and ITN today revealed details of the new look Channel 4 News, set for launch next year. Starting from 4 January, the programme will have a new look, a new set and, for the first time, an extended Saturday edition. The new set will feature a video wall and there will be more… Continue reading Channel 4 News Revamp Details
Channel 5 was risking losing the right to two additional digital channels in its delay to begin broadcasting its main service on digital terrestrial television (DTT), until it announced this morning that its DTT launch is on-track for next week.Although the channel is carried by BSkyB’s digital satellite service, it is the only terrestrial channel… Continue reading Channel 5 Confirms DTT Launch
Another programme produced by Carlton Television has been found by the Independent Television Commission (ITC) to be in breach of the Programme Code. Omagh: Thursday Night Special was broadcast on ITV just five days after the devastating bomb in the Northern Ireland town.This prompted a number of complaints to both the ITC and the programme’s… Continue reading Second Carlton Programme Breaches ITC Code
Contrary to most current economic forecasts, Zenith Media has predicted that worldwide advertising expenditure growth is to accelerate over the next three years. There is no recession in prospect, the media analysis company says.The global adspend growth of 3.8% for 1998 is the bottom of the market, according to the Zenith report. Growth is predicted… Continue reading Global Advertising Spend To Grow, Predicts Zenith
A series of Government advertisements aimed at encouraging businesses to prepare for the impact of the Euro received several complaints from viewers. The complaints fell into two categories; the first was that people objected to the bullying nature of the boss featured in the advert, and the other was that the advert was nothing more… Continue reading Government Euro Ad Under Fire
A management re-shuffle at Associated Newspapers is to take effect from 1 January 1999.Kevin Beatty will move from being managing director of The Mail On Sunday to MD of The Evening Standard. Mike Ironside will become MD of The Mail On Sunday and Simon Barnes will be promoted to MD of Associated Newspapers new Group… Continue reading Management Re-Shuffle At Associated Newspapers
News International’s (NI) Times and Sunday Times online publications are being expanded following recent increases in traffic to the websites. NI’s Internet Publishing division is injecting money to the sites in order to increase bandwidth and server capacity. This should mean faster access speeds and more services for the websites’ readers.In its latest audit from… Continue reading The Times Online Invests In Faster Service
Loot, one of the UK’s top classified publications, has appointed the Mirror Group as its nation-wide distributor. The title is to grow from being a local specialist paper to a national publication.Loot has 23 editions which cover London, the home counties, Manchester, Liverpool and the East Midlands.Wally Cowley, circulation sales director of Mirror Group, said:… Continue reading Loot To Go National
