The new teenage cable channel Rapture is to have an air-time sales team based at the ITV sales house, TSMS, which will be led by former broadcast director of Initiative Marketing, Robert Ditcham. TSMS is owned by United News & Media which also has a major shareholding in Rapture.Rapture‘s programming will target the upper end… Continue reading Rapture Sets Up Sales Operation With TSMS
30 Beautiful Homes is dubbed “The magazine you’ve always wanted.” Naturally, this depends on what it is you’ve always wanted to do. On the one hand, you may wish to spend, if you have it, vast amounts of money converting and creating one of these ‘beautiful homes’ and filling it with all manner of antique… Continue reading Pilot Issue Review – 30 Beautiful Homes
Interim pre-tax profits rose 12% year on year to £43.7m for the Mirror Group. Growth in advertising revenue assisted this, with Classified ads being particularly strong with a 24% increase. Losses at L!ve TV fell and it is expected that The Independent will enter into profit next year.Mirror Group: 0171 293 3000
According to unofficial live data the Chelsea v Bratislava football match on Channel 5 last night was viewed by an average of 2.4 million Individuals, which is a TVR of 4.5. The audience peaked at 3.6 million. The other C5 game shown earlier in the week, between Slavonika and Arsenal, attracted an average individuals audience… Continue reading Chelsea Game Attracts 2.4m For C5
The Alliance & Leicester (A&L) will launch a new Website on 24 September in order to meet the needs of its more technologically ‘switched-on’ customer base. The company acknowledges the impact the Internet will have on the personal financial sector.To make banking and finance more fun visitors can search the site for the invisible A&L… Continue reading Alliance & Leicester Launch Internet ‘Money
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BBC Family Life, which will launch on 23 October, is intended to fill what publishing director Gillian Laskier views as a gap in the market. It is aimed to appeal to ABC1 women who have primary school age children who need a magazine which has relevance to their lives. It will centre on family-related topics… Continue reading BBC Magazines Launch BBC Family Life
The Sci-Fi Channel will be bringing its advertising sales business in-house from BSkyB with effect from the beginning of next year. As part of the move, the channel will be bolstering its sales and support staff, headed by Mark Bradford.Since its launch in 1995 BSkyB has been representing a portion of UK ad sales for… Continue reading Sci-Fi Channel Pulls Sales In-House
Conde Nast Traveller reminds me of IPC’s Eat Soup in a number of ways. It attempts to be both informative and entertaining, so becoming a generalised consumer title covering a niche area; it flatters readers into thinking they are or could be the bone fide item (ie, a chef or restaurant critic in Eat Soup‘s… Continue reading First Issue Review – Conde Nast Traveller
