Two-thirds (65%) of the British public want the biennial Ryder Cup event added to the list of sports protected from exclusive showing on cable and satellite TV, according to the latest findings from CIA MediaLab’s Sensor survey. Last September, the Ryder Cup was broadcast on Sky with only highlights on the BBC.The findings will add… Continue reading Two-Thirds Of Public Want Full Coverage Of Ryder Cup On Terrestrial TV
The WPP group has launched a website at http://www.wpp.com/. As well as contact and corporate information the site also contains a news and games section.The site will feature as a forthcoming Website of the Week.
http://www.sportsweb.com/The new Reuters SportsWeb site is dubbed the first global sports site on the Internet. Drawing on Reuters extensive news-gathering tendrils, SportsWeb does indeed feature a very impressive amount of sporting information across a large number of sports. The homepage currently focuses on the run-up to next year’s World Cup in France but presumably will… Continue reading Website Of The Week – SportsWeb
In further staff preparations for a scheduled January relaunch (subscribers see Sunday Business Winding Up To Launch), the Sunday Business has recruited the core of its new ad sales team. The paper’s advertisement director Peter Gould has rounded together a number of ex-colleagues from the Evening Standard along with new staff to complete the team.… Continue reading Sunday Business Consolidates Ad Team
Wagadon has said that it will be launching a men’s lifestyle and music magazine in the Spring next year. Deluxe will be aimed at young men past the “lads” stage and cost £2.50 with an initial print-run of 180,000.Editor Andrew Harrison, who formally edited Select, said: “We’ll cover entertainment, fashion, sex, drugs and rock ‘n’… Continue reading Wagadon To Launch Men’s Mag
Carlton Communications this morning announced annual pre-tax profits of £316.7m, up 7% on last year, on the back of turnover up 4% to £1.74 billion.The company shrugged off the launch of Channel 5, saying that Carlton Television’s performance remained “strong”. Overall Carlton’s television operations saw an increase of 16% to £150m in operating profit. Westcountry,… Continue reading Growth At Carlton Continues
The blatant pinching of big company brand names to use as Internet sites just for fun has come to an end, as a court ruling has demanded that all adopted trade names must be handed over to the big guys. As you may remember from a previous Web Round-Up, a couple of likely lads going… Continue reading Web Round-Up W/E 05/12/97
The Media Research Group is holding a media research computer fair at JWT on Friday 5 December. It will begin at 11:30am and close at 3:00pm and is free for all MRG members.Companies taking a stand will include: BMRB, MediaTel, SP Consultants and Taylor Nelson AGB.The MRG website can be found in the new Media… Continue reading MRG To Hold Research Computer Fair
A new survey by technology analysts Datamonitor claims that 11% of the UK will have the set-top boxes required to receive digital television by 2002. These boxes will be capable of fully interactive television. The report also claims that only Spain and France will have higher set-top box penetration than the UK by 2002, despite… Continue reading UK Digital Set-Top Box Penetration 11% By 2002
Only seven national newspapers experienced year on year June-November ABC increases, with the Sunday Telegraph again storming ahead with a massive 18% rise to 883,505 copies sold. The FT also had a good month, with an increase of just under 10% to 326,036. Title Jun 96 – Nov 96 Jun 97 – Nov 97 Actual… Continue reading National Newspaper ABC Summary – November
