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Richard Eyre, Chief Executive of ITV, has promised to reverse the audience share decline of ITV compared to other broadcasters in the past few years and bring it to over 40% of the total by the end of the year 2000.

The Commission’s failure to take action last month against Greece’s toy advertising TV ban has irritated the trade association Toy Industries of Europe (TIE). Although a majority of Commissioners have now voted in favour of taking action over the ban, which breaches EU rules on free movement of goods and services, there is no sign… Continue reading EU: Toymakers Angry At EC

The Sunday Telegraph has increased its price by 10p taking it to 90p. This began at the start of the year. This Saturday the Daily Telegraph is also to launch an augmented portfolio of supplements with the main newspaper (subscribers see Saturday Telegraph To Launch New Look).Telegraph Group: 0171 538 5000

Emap Elan will be distributing mini-copies of its new magazine Red to various stores and newsagents as part of a £2 million promotional campaign for the title which launches on January 15.Kathryn Brown, editor of Red, says that the new glossy is for ‘modern women’ who have responsibilities but are are “still interested in style,… Continue reading Emap Launches ‘Red’ Sampler

The ITC today announced that Mr Vanni Treves has been appointed as the new chairman of Channel 4. He takes up the position today in succession to Sir Michael Bishop.Treves is a senior partner of City law firm Macfarlanes and is chairman of several public companies including the BBA group, McKechnie plc and the Dennis… Continue reading ITC Appoints C4 Chairman

The Sunday Telegraph again put in a strong performance with a July-December year on year increase of 14% to take its sales to 887,204 while the FT grew by an impressive 10.7% to 328,793 copies sold. Among the titles whose circulation fell, the People dropped 7.5% and the Sunday Mirror slipped 6.6%. The Daily Star… Continue reading National Newspaper ABC Summary – December

John Willis has joined the shareholder board of Channel 5 Broadcasting, replacing Clive Hollick as the United News & Media representative. Willis was formerly director of programmes at Channel 4 and has recently been appointed as managing director of United Film & TV Productions. He quit the post at Channel 4 in September last year… Continue reading Channel 5 Gets New Board Member

Katz has sub-contracted its TV sales operation to Laser due to its wish to concentrate on radio and international business (subscribers see Katz Restructures Away From TV) .Laser Satellite & Cable will now take on the national advertising and sponsorship sales for Channel One , the Performance Channel and Asianet , as well as the… Continue reading Laser Takes On Katz TV Business

Following the sale of a number of titles to CMP Media (subscribers see Emap Computing Sells Titles), Emap Computing is to redistribute its remaining computing and telecoms titles throughout a number of Emap divisions before Emap Computing closes in April.It is believed that a new Emap company will be set-up in order to take on… Continue reading Emap Reorganises Its Computing Titles

Channel 5 has signed a major multi-year movie deal with Buena Vista International.Following earlier deals with Fox and Warner Bros, the new partnership will secure key releases from Walt Disney, Touchstone and Hollywood Pictures from 1996, 1997 and 1998.Films which will see their terrestrial premieres on 5 will include Con-Air, The Rock and Phenomenon.The deal… Continue reading C5 Signs New Movie Deal