Well, we’ve made it through the annual onslaught of Christmas specials, and despite the noticeable absence of Only Fools & Horses on Terrestrial TV, things weren’t too bad. On the comedy front, the BBC wheeled out all their other traditional Christmas crackers. Leading the way, One Foot In The Grave attracted 15.76 million, another classic… Continue reading TV Viewing Summary W/E 28/12/97
Live TV today announced that it has taken back the national sales for the channel as part of the launch of the Cable Advertising Sales Company later this month.The cable-only channel’s national airtime was previously sold by Laser Satellite and Cable but Live now believes it sells enough airtime to go it alone. CASC will… Continue reading Live TV Launches Sales House
Sky High charts the emergence and subsequent progress of arguably the UK’s most radical and revolutionary broadcaster, BSkyB. From losses of £14 million a week in 1990 to pre-tax profits of £300 million in 1997 (£10 a second), Horsman reveals an intriguing “cast of characters” and delves into the intricate wheeling and dealing involved in… Continue reading Book Review – Mathew Horsman’s Sky High
Internet Business Magazine has announced a covermount promotion which will see it giving away the 1998 Internet Business Yearbook with issue 13 of the magazine, dated February 1998. The 200-page guide to putting businesses on the Net has not previously been available to members of the public.The title is also giving away the 4-part Global… Continue reading Internet Business Cover Promotion
British Digital Broadcasting (BDB), the digital television collaboration between Carlton and Granada, has appointed Amstrad executive Anthony Sethill to a position of “marketing and general management responsibilities.” Sethill is currently an executive director of Amstrad and managing director of Amstrad Consumer Electronics.His appointment is part of an enormous promotions campaign with which the company will… Continue reading Appointment Briefs
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. This is almost 70,000 more copies than the Independent which fell 1.8% to 260,223.Among the titles whose circulation fell,… Continue reading National Newspaper ABC Summary – December
Following the hive of activity of the last couple of days as IPC Magazines was bought by venture capitalists Cinven and announced the restructuring of its management teams, chief executive Mike Matthew has confirmed his ‘vision’ for the magazine group to take it into 2000.The UK’s largest publisher of consumer magazines is planning to add… Continue reading IPC Envisages 100 Titles BY 2000
The Saturday edition of the Daily Telegraph will this weekend reveal its new look.Three new stand-alone sections will appear: Sport, Money-Go-Round and Travel will join the Weekend, Motoring, Arts & Books, TV and Radio and Young Telegraph supplements.Subscribers can access the Press Planner database by selecting “Press” from the drop-down box at the top of… Continue reading Saturday Telegraph To Launch New Look
News International has increased the cover-price of the Times‘ Monday edition from 10p to 20p.Since the cut-price copy was introduced in June 1996 the paper’s circulation has increased from 753,784 to 802,147. The financial cost of this strategy has been rumoured to be around £30 million per year.
http://www.a2btravel.com/While Condé Nast’s Traveller site (http://www.cntraveller.co.uk/) provides a wealth of editorial information, from travel articles and travellers’ personal diaries to city histories and world news stories, Emap Online’s a2b Travel is the logistical key to getting to these far-flung, exotic locations (or, if you prefer, a B&B trip to Bridlington).The basis of a2b Travel is… Continue reading Website Of The Week – a2b Travel
