Labour peer Lord Hollick, chairman of United News & Media (UNM), yesterday announced the demerger of his group’s moneybroking and financial information businesses. This leaves UNM with only its media interests (TV, newspapers and exhibitions) to concentrate on.The demerged company, Garban, is a global leader in money and securities broking. As a result of the… Continue reading United News Focuses On Media Interests With Financial Services Sale
It is understood that CLT-Ufa’s 100% stake in RTL Country 1035 may be sold to European satellite radio station, Country Music Radio (CMR). The station is to expected to fetch around £2 million.CLT-Ufa put stakes in all its UK Radio stations up for sale earlier this year (see CLT To Examine Bids For Its UK… Continue reading Country Music Radio May Buy RTL Country 1035
British Digital Broadcasting (BDB) has secured a deal to broadcast music channel MTV on its digital terrestrial television (DTT) service, which it is due to launch in the last quarter of this year.BSkyB, however, has negotiated an arrangement which prevents BDB broadcasting MTV until July next year, giving Sky exclusive rights at the time of… Continue reading Digital Pay TV Groups Agree To Share MTV Broadcast
Revenue Agency estimates for June 1998 put total terrestrial TV ad revenue at £182.09 million, a fall year on year for ITV, Channel 4 and GMTV, and a continuing rise for Channel 5.ITV’s total revenue was down 6.5% to £131.04 million, C4’s fell 7.0% to £40.90 million, and C5’s reached £10.15 million, arise of 4.6%.… Continue reading TV Round-Up – June 1998
A lot of ‘special’ programmes on television this week, even if the content of the programmes themselves is nothing special. ITV decided that the best way it could get viewers to tune into their coverage of the World Cup final was to screen a 50 minute edition of Coronation Street directly beforehand.The first part of… Continue reading TV Viewing Summary W/E 12/07/98
First Press and Zone, two British publishing companies, are to be responsible for the publishing of several new football titles.Zone are preparing to re-launch the official Chelsea Magazine on 7 August, which will be a monthly publication costing £2.50. It will be edited by Dan Davis, originally editor of IPC’s Goal.In Scotland, First Press launched… Continue reading More Football Club Magazines To Launch
Adam Porter, managing editor at Loaded , is set to leave to become part of the GQ team as a freelance writer. Although Conde Nast, GQ‘s publisher, cannot confirm a starting date, he will be a contributing editor working alongside James Brown, who was his old editor at Loaded (see Loaded Editor Quits For Rival).Porter… Continue reading Loaded Managing Editor Defects To GQ
The sale of Leeds agency Poulter to its management has finally been completed this week after months of negotiations. In December last year Graham Poulter said the management buyout was being ‘actively discussed’ and that he expected completion in February this year.Graham Poulter has now relinquished control over the agency he founded 29 years ago,… Continue reading Poulter Agency Buyout Finally Complete
The Football Association has announced today that its F.A. Cup is to be sponsored by French insurance group AXA for four years. The Cup was previously sponsored by Littlewoods.The £20m association, which begins immediately, means the competition will now be called ‘The AXA Sponsored F.A. Cup’. The deal also gives AXA title sponsorship of this… Continue reading F.A. Gets Four Year AXA Sponsorship
The Radio Authority (RA) is advertising new small-scale local FM radio licences for services in the Bristol/North Somerset areas. The licences will cover Bristol, North Somerset, Bath and South Gloucestershire.The Authority anticipates awarding two licences for these areas; each licence will run for a period of eight years from the date the station begins broadcasting.Applicants… Continue reading RA Advertises Bristol/North Somerset Small-Scale Licences
