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
The European Parliament Culture Committee voted on 24 September to allocate ECU 20 million for the creation of an Audiovisual Guarantee Fund, with the aim of boosting the Fund’s encouragement of EU audiovisual production. The European Federation of Audiovisual Directors (EFAD) has recently observed that there exists a huge gap between European and North American… Continue reading EU: Culture Committee Backs Fund
Channel 4 is rumoured to be planning a digital channel based on its successful Film on Four department.According to the Observer a proposal for the film channel will be put to the Channel 4 board in the Autumn as part of a long-term business plan prepared by media consultant Hydra.It is said that the upmarket… Continue reading C4 In Film Channel Rumours
The Council has adopted unanimously a Directive on consumer credit, which modifies Directive 87/102/EEC on Consumer Credit. It establishes throughout the EU a single method of calculation of the real annual cost of consumer credit.
The Confederation of the Food and Drink Industries of the EU has decided voluntarily to label foods containing genetically modified soyabeans or maize, in the absence of an agreement between EU Member States to introduce common labelling rules. The Confederation said it was alarmed at the failure of the EU to agree common rules and… Continue reading EU: Genetically Modified Crops
The publishing, phonographic and telecoms industries have signalled their strong opposition to the draft Directive on Copyright, now adopted by the European Commission. They argue that its provisions will provide insufficient protection for rights holders against the making of unauthorised copies and that the liability for infringements should not be placed exclusively on the shoulders… Continue reading EU: Copyright Directive Under Fire
The Radio Advertising Bureau has started a new series of publications entitled RAB LAB. The first in the series is The Grammar of Radio Advertising and is a ‘snapshot’ analysis of contemporary British radio advertising.The report, based in analysis of a random selection of over 300 radio commercials, seeks to explore how radio advertising “expresses… Continue reading RAB Launches Publication Series
Cinema admissions rose 30% in November, with average weekly admissions for the month standing at 2.26 million. Total admissions was 9.698 million, up from 7.443 million the previous year.Subscribers can access the Cinema database by selecting “Cinema” from the drop-down box at the top of this page.
