BBC Magazines will be launching a home interest title called BBC Good Homes in the Spring, the publisher today confirmed. While other details are being kept under wraps, the magazine’s launch is expected to coincide with the BBC Good Homes Exhibition in late April.BBC Magazines: 0181 576 3000
A new men’s lifestyle/motoring magazine entitled Petrolhead will be launching on 13 February. It will be published by a new company called Mediahead.The title, which will be a cross between Loaded and Top Gear, will have around 200 pages and a cover-price of £2.95.Petrolhead: 0181 200 6543
Channel 4’s rescreening of the classic 1981 adaptation of Brideshead Revisited is to be sponsored by Douwe Egberts. The deal, worth £500,000, will see the association running for the six weeks of double-length episodes. The series starts on Saturday 24 January.Douwe Egberts is to use the same credits seen on Channel 4’s Frasier.Channel 4: 0171… Continue reading C4’s Brideshead Revisited Receives Sponsor
Speculation is currently rife that Microsoft is looking to take over BT. Though BT has refused to comment on the matter its shares rose 26p to close at 583p and at 10:23 this morning the stock had risen a further 3p.Other US companies are also said to be eying Britain’s seventh largest company, including AT&T… Continue reading BT Shares Soar On Microsoft Rumour
The Premier League has rejected BSkyB’s initial proposal for extending its exclusive live coverage deal to the BDB digital terrestrial TV consortium.BSkyB has a contract to supply a number of channels to BDB, including its sports coverage, yet its first offer is believed to be substantially below what the Premier League expected. It is rumoured… Continue reading Premier League Rejects BSkyB Digital Proposal
Well, this was going to be the week when Eastenders reclaimed the New Year crown from its northern counterparts. One of those ‘special’ weeks with five episodes, mainly focusing on the trial of Cindy Beale. It didn’t really do the trick though, only attracting an average audience of 11.74 million compared to Coronation Street‘s 16.79… Continue reading TV Viewing Summary W/E 11/01/98
Telewest today announced fourth quarter 1997 operating figures which show that its cable TV service has seen a growth in subscribers of nearly 90,000 to 687,352. There was, however, a slight drop in penetration – down 0.6% points to 22% while the churn rate rose 0.6% to 34%.There was a huge growth in Telewest’s Internet… Continue reading Telewest Cable Viewers Grow
The ABC has announced a major revision of its rules for the national newspaper industry in an attempt to improve the transparency of data supplied.Extensive discussions between the ABC, national newspaper publishers and media buyers has resulted in the revised set of rules which commences on 30 March 1998, for the April 1998 ABC audit… Continue reading ABC Revises National Newspaper Rules
The ITC has received two applications for the local delivery franchise for North Wales and South Cheshire (subscribers see ITC Invites Applications For Delivery Channels). By the deadline of 12 January 1998 the ITC had received applications from Cable and Wireless Communications and Metro Communications Ltd.C&W proposes to offer service to 275,000 homes in North… Continue reading Applications For North Wales Delivery Franchise
Nascent terrestrial broadcaster, Channel 5, has secured a sports coup by winning the rights to three of England’s qualifying games for the Euro 2000 finals. The games, which are all away, will come from Poland, Bulgaria and Luxembourg.The channel also has the rights to broadcast Scotland’s matches in the Czech Republic, Lithuania, Bosnia-Herzogovina, Estonia and… Continue reading C5 Shoots And Scores For Euro 2000
