The Internet arm of Associated Newspapers, Associated New Media (ANM), has just launched what editor Martin Dunn claims is the first totally comprehensive city guide to London. Dunn, former editor of the New York Daily News and Today, says that the This Is London (TIL) site (http://thisislondon.co.uk) is the result of the collation of material… Continue reading Interview – Martin Dunn, Associated New Media
Haymarket’s Campaign magazine will be launching a website next Spring. Campaignlive will be subscription-based and feature news, a diary of events and a debating forum. Readers of the magazine will be charged a subscription rate of £50 while for non-readers it will cost £60.Campaignlive: 0171 413 4297
IPC Magazines has announced cover price increases across a range of its Weeklies Group titles: Woman , Womans Own and Chat increase to 60p, Now goes up to 65p, Whats On TV goes up to 49p, Womans Weekly rises to 54p and Womans Realm increases to 57p.Alan Green, publishing servies director at IPC’s distributor MarketForce,… Continue reading Price Increases At IPC Titles
The national newspaper market had a bad month in October, with only three titles not showing year on year drops in readership. The Guardian saw a year on year NRS increase of 12.5% for May-October and the Sunday Telegraph went up almost 18%. The Mail on Sunday could only manage growth of 0.1%.Subscribers can access… Continue reading National Newspaper NRS – October
Only seven national newspapers experienced year on year June-November ABC increases, with the Sunday Telegraph again storming ahead with a massive 18% rise. The FT also had a good month, with an increase of just under 10%. The biggest losses were in the Sunday tabloid market, where the People fell 7% and the Sunday Mirror… Continue reading National Newspaper ABC Summary – November
A slightly more grown-up version of Eat Soup and aimed at at a broader audience, Fox’s Food and Travel magazine is exotic, stylish and extravagant.From articles on Tokyo’s fish markets and sushi bars to write-ups on far-flung places like Zanzibar, this is obviously aspirational stuff. But at the end of the day if a magazine… Continue reading First Issue Review – Food And Travel
The first broadcast of an ITV programme live on the Internet, Carlton’s music programme Videotech, has been sponsored by Tower Records. This is the first time Tower Records has sponsored a programme on the World Wide Web.The webcast, which was broadcast on Thursday 27 November at the same time as the programme went out in… Continue reading Tower Records Sponsors Videotech Webcast
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
