The youth and entertainment publishers Attic Futura have announced two top-level editorial appointments this week. Jonathan Bowman, currently features editor of What’s On TV, joins as editor of Inside Soap replacing Kate Ekberg who is now appointed as editor of TV Week in Australia. TV Week is owned by PMP Communications which is Attic Futura’s… Continue reading Top-Level Magazine Appointments
http://www.megastar.co.ukWelcome to the world of the Ooh, Aah Newspapaah. The Daily Star launched its Internet version of the newspaper last week after postponment following Diana’s death. Now it is available in all its cheeky glory.Lifting the no-nonsense, ‘avin’ a laff nature straight from the printed Daily Star, the Mega Star is a bright, fast and… Continue reading Website Of The Week – Mega Star
Everything you need to know about student life can apparently be found in Time Out‘s Student Guide 1997. The magazine will feature articles about accommodation, money and health as well as interviews and music features.The guide will be given away free to all first-year students at London colleges and goes on sale nationwide this month… Continue reading Time Out Student Guide 1997
Cathryn Geraghty has been made station manager at Atlantic 252 while Al Dunne extends his area of responsibility and takes over as programme director. Both have been with the station since its launch in 1989.Atlantic 252 PR: 0171 482 4000
TMD Carat Manchester has launched its own Website. The pages can be found at http://www.tmdcarat-man.co.uk/.
The NME has redesigned its Website (http://www.nme.com) to include expanded online shopping facilities. The site will now focus on daily news, reviews and tour information as well as selling music and concert tickets over the Internet.The new NME site will have a daily news feed replacing the weekly update of the previous system. Will Parker,… Continue reading New New Musical Express
Postar has appointed Terry Wheeler, general secretary of the Media Circle education group, to promote the research system to the outdoor advertising industry.Postar launched in April last year yet many agencies are not using the whole complement of data which is now available. Richard Holliday, managing director of Postar, believes that buying is being carried… Continue reading Postar Appoints Promoter
Auto Trader‘s Website has been given an ABC audit for August 1997 which shows 1,030,520 page impressions for the site.Lee Williams, new media manager, Auto Trader said ‘The ABC //electronic certificate can now give advertisers the confidence in the massive volume of Auto Trader Interactive’s unique audience.’http://www.autotrader.co.uk/interactive.html
Cinema admission figures for August reveal a 5.4% year on year increase in average weekly admissions, up from 3.69 million to 3.89 million. Total admissions for the month stood at 17.208 million compared to 16.331 million last year.Source: CAA/EDISubscribers can access the Cinema Database by selecting “Cinema” from the drop-down box at the top of… Continue reading August Cinema Admissions Rise 5.4%
Pay Per View football is forecast to bring in £450m of revenue a year by 2003/4, according to a new report from Fletcher Research and Oliver & Ohlbaum.This sum is significantly less than previous predictions which had put the figure as a high as £2 billion on the basis that 10 million people would sign… Continue reading Pay TV Football Worth £450m By 2003
