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
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
McVitie’s has apparently called for advertisers to organise a boycott of certain ITV regions in protest at airtime inflation.It is reported in Marketing that Mark Horgan, marketing director of McVitie’s UK, called for the move at last week’s Marketing Forum in a debate on airtime inflation, saying “If you asked me to stop spending in… Continue reading McVitie’s In Ad Boycott Call
The Mirror Group and Press Association plan to add yet another vice to the Internet through the introduction of online betting. The service, ‘SportingLife.com’, will take bets on all sports and is believed to be the first of its kind in the UK. Punters can use debit cards to place their wagers.…Also anyone with an… Continue reading Web Round-Up W/E 26/09/97
The board of the Manchester Evening News has “widened its range of expertise” with the appointment of four new heads of department.Debbie Phillips and Mark Rix become joint advertisement directors, with Elaine Darbyshire as marketing director and David Benjamin as finance director joining them. Since cutting the cover price on Fridays the Evening News is… Continue reading Manchester Evening News Gains Four Heads
