MediaTel is today celebrating its 17th birthday.Over the years the company’s media information system has been developed, augmented and transferred from a Teletext-based medium to the internet. MediaTel recently won the contract to develop the radio advertising booking system, JICRIT, which is currently in progress.
The ITN news service has launched an archive website, located at www.itnarchive.com, which features a moving picture database service.The service is for producers of broadcast, corporate, advertising and multimedia programmes, and consists of three main elements: shotlists of ITN’s output and rushes since 1955; a separate listing of the themed Collections that ITN has been… Continue reading ITN Archive Store Goes Online
Denise Van Outen has announced that she is to leave Channel 4’s The Big Breakfast at Christmas to pursue other things.Johnny Vaughn and Van Outen have co-presented the show for 18-months, helping to pick up flagging viewing figures after the departure of Chris Evans.Channel 4: 0171 396 4444
Cable operator, Cable & Wireless Communications (CWC), has signed up MUTV, the Man Utd-dedicated channel, to be carried across its UK cable network. The channel will be available to over 800,000 CWC subscribers.The channel broadcasts between 6pm and 12 midnight each day, and is already being carried on Sky Digital; BSkyB is a part-owner in… Continue reading CWC Sign Up Man Utd TV Channel
Women in Direct Marketing (WDM), an organisation which ‘aims to help women at every level in direct marketing to develop their full potential and to achieve their personal and professional ambitions’, has launched a website, located at www.wdm-uk.org.The site provides information about the organisation, as well as listing social events, training, networking and citing female-related… Continue reading Direct Marketing Website For Women
After the departure of its editor in August (see Newsline), the IPC title Muzik has found a replacement for the position in the form of Ben Turner.Ben Turner is the youngest-ever editor at IPC, at the tender age of 24. He has been with IPC since 1989, when he was taken on for work experience,… Continue reading Changes At IPC
ITV sales house, Laser, has unveiled its new identity as Granada Mediasales. The change of name and logo is designed to associate the sales operation with the ‘strength of the Granada name’, according to Mick Desmond, chief executive.The new branding was developed by Manchester-based creative agency, Tucker Clarke Williams. An advertising campaign will officially launch… Continue reading Laser Becomes Granada Mediasales
The Independent Television Commission (ITC) is currently facing the possibility of High Court action this week as the case against the Commission’s minimum carriage requirements review, led by Flextech (see Flextech Takes ITC ‘Unbundling’ Move To High Court), draws to a close.In August this year Flextech, the pay-TV group, took action against the ITC’s decision… Continue reading ITC’s ‘Unbundling’ High Court Case Draws To A Close
As the launch of ITV’s new digital TV channel (see Newsline), ITV2 approaches, the company has said that it is not planning to have a separate airtime sales house for the service. Instead it intends to set up a sales committee comprising representatives from each of ITV’s three sales houses, TSMS, Carlton Sales and Laser.Each… Continue reading ITV2 To Have No Dedicated Sales House
Cable and communications company, NTL, has just unveiled plans to launch what it claims to be the UK’s first fully interactive television service. The operator is to distribute set-top boxes for its service outside NTL cable franchise areas, making it nationally available.The service, set to launch next Spring, is not to be confused with cable… Continue reading NTL Unveils Interactive Services
