United News & Media has announced plans which will create the UK’s most powerful media group in the agriculture industry.The Miller Freeman portfolio of farming magazine titles will be expanded to include Farmer’s Guardian , the weekly newspaper currently published by United Provincial Newspapers.Tony Tillin, chief executive officer of Miller Freeman, comments on this development:… Continue reading UNM Creates New Agriculture Group
The Times‘ parent company, News Corporation, has sold a 5% stake of non-voting stock to Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal. This represents just over 2% of all News Corporation stock.News International: 0171 782 6000
This week is the last week to grab the chance of winning a Nintendo 64. If you haven’t yet filled out the MediaTel questionnaire then do so post-haste in order to be entered into the draw. Good luck…
British households are becoming more and more technologically wired up according to a new Omnibus Survey from the Office for National Statistics (ONS). Mobile phones, answering machines, faxes and the Internet are becoming the norm with over half the households in Britain having at least one of these devices. 29% of households have a home… Continue reading Britain Is Getting Connected
Billett’s, the advertising consultancy group, has issued a report detailing its opinion of the new ITV airtime sales policy which offers deals in terms of share of total broadcast spend (subscribers see ISBA Consults IPA On ITV Sales Policy). The consultancy believes that agencies should resist this policy and should receive the support of their… Continue reading ITV Sales Policy: There May Be Trouble Ahead
Carlton Television’s music show Videotech is to be broadcast on the Internet and ITV simultaneously on Thursday 27 November at 10.40pm. The hour-long event is to be used as a test case for the problems of issuing rights licences for webcasts on the Internet. The Performing Rights Society (PRS) and the Music Copyright Protection Society… Continue reading Videotech In First Live ITV ‘Webcast’
The Broadcasting Standards Commission has published a new code of guidance for broadcasters relating to issues of fairness and privacy. The code may have signalled the end of documentary makers’ rights to film in secret if the BSC had decided to clamp down hard following Princess Diana’s death. However, the Commission has reached a compromise… Continue reading Broadcasters Receive New Fairness And Privacy Code
The latest Establishment Survey for June 1997 is now available in full. Subscribers can access this by selecting Television from the drop down box and scrolling down to the Establishment Surveys section.
Radio and television companies are uniting to form an attack on the BBC’s commercial activities which they see as an unfair use of licence fee money. The ITV Association, representing all ITV companies, and the Commercial Radio Companies Association are to meet sometime next month to discuss a possible public lobbying of the Corporation’s pay… Continue reading Increased Pressure On BBC Promotions
The BBC’s ABC1 women’s magazine, BBC Family Life , has appointed Kate Przeslawski as deputy ad manager. She moves from the position of senior sales executive at She magazine and will report to ad manager Hayley Granston. In addition, Penny Bell has joined the title as marketing and sponsorship manager, leaving the same post as… Continue reading Appointment Briefs
