The Saturday edition of the Guardian will be featuring another new supplement from May 9. In addition to the changes already announced (subscribers see Guardian Makes Changes To Saturday Package), the Saturday paper will contain The Editor, a magazine that contains a compilation of news, views and reviews from other media.According to the Guardian, The… Continue reading Saturday Guardian Gets Another Supplement
Carol Dukes, joint managing director of EMAP Online, will be leaving the company to join Carlton Communications as head of its new company, Carlton Online.As well as developing new sites and online business opportunities, Carlton Online will coordinate the broadcaster’s existing websites. It is also expected that the new arm will help develop interactive services… Continue reading Dukes To Head Up New Carlton Business
The difficulty of surviving in the new media environment was highlighted this week by the announcement that Lowe Howard-Spink has closed its Lowe Digital department. It is expected that the unit will be relaunched as a strategic consultancy in the next few months.The closure was blamed on the difficulty of making money from the competetive… Continue reading Lowe To Relaunch Digital Arm
Total terrestrial television was estimated to have brought in ad revenue of £198.61 million. Of this, ITV brought in £138.64m (down 6.4% year on year), C4 £43.9m (down 0.2%), C5 £10.57m and GMTV £5.5m (down 14.1%).There was little change among the ITV franchise holders, with only LWT showing a substantial change in revenue share –… Continue reading TV Revenue – March
The March Retail Prices Index was announced this morning as 160.8, an increase of 0.3% on the previous month and a rise of 3.5% on March 1997.Subscribers can access RPI trends by selecting “Encyclomedia” from the drop-down box at the top of this page.
BT has launched a new service which offers British schools subsidised access to the internet. Schools can purchase unlimited access to online services for £445 a year for a standard telephone line, and £790 a year for a higher speed ISDN line; both will be set up to operate during normal school hours.The BT Schools… Continue reading BT Launches Schools Online Service
The release of Quarter 1 RAJAR data has been brought forward by one day to Thursday 30 April.The data will be available that afternoon on MediaTel and will be accompanied by Newsline reports.http://www.rajar.co.uk/
In an unexpected and late development to the takeover saga of Home Counties Newspapers, the company’s ruling shareholders today agreed to sell the local publisher to Eastern Counties Newspapers.Although Eastern’s bid of £58.3 million is just short of the £59 million offer which Southnews announced yesterday (subscribers see Southnews Launches £59m Home Counties Bid), Home… Continue reading Home Counties Surprise Sell To Eastern
The Radio Authority has said that between January and March of this year it received 60 complaints about advertising and sponsorship issues, of which 15 were upheld. 7 of these related to misleading ads, 4 to offensive content, 1 was deemed to be harmful, 1 related to sponsorship issues and 2 to other matters.There were… Continue reading 60 Ad Complaints Received By RA
The Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) has announced that its director, Ray Hall, has left the organisation. Hall has been at the ABC for three years during which he developed its Verified Free Distribution (VFD) system.Hall also played a key role in the bulk sales dispute between the ABC, News International and the Mirror Group… Continue reading Ray Hall Leaves ABC
