The Channel 5 9pm movie, much trumpeted as a popular alternative to other channel’s offerings, can be seen as a general indicator of 5’s success since it launched at the end of March. This is not only because 5 itself placed so much faith in it as an audience puller, but because advertisers did too.… Continue reading Channel 5 Analysis – The 9pm Movie
L!ve TV’s has now launched its new regional station, Manchester L!ve. The station is the latest in the growing L!ve TV City Network, joining Birmingham, Westminster, Liverpool and Edinburgh.Jane Wroe, sales director of L!ve TV, says the Manchester station offers “a huge commercial opportunity, with the majority of paid for local newspapers haemorrhaging circulation, particularly… Continue reading Manchester L!ve Confident Of Success
News International has fired the latest round in the dispute between The Times and The Telegraph and the ABC *Telegraph Issue Writ To ABC. NI has published a list of reforms it would like to see to the ABC system.In the statement, NI claims: “The integrity of the ABC figures has come increasingly into question… Continue reading Times For Change At ABC
Wednesday’s Coronation Street saw Jim MacDonald out on his first date since breaking up with Liz, 17.38 million people thought it was a good enough reason to tune in, placing the episode at the top of the thirty in this week’s chart. Nice to see a far more familiar Coronation Street style storyline taking place,… Continue reading TV Viewing Summary W/E 11/05/97
The ITC has agreed to vary the build timetable in the licence for Eurobell Ltd, the local delivery licensee for West Kent.Eurobell had indicated that it had been unable to start construction in West Kent due to delays in the granting of the licence under the Telecommunications Act 1984. The ITC has reluctantly agreed to… Continue reading Licence Change
The National Heritage Secretary, Chris Smith has unveiled a seven point plan for the British Film Industry, these are:1. For the first time ever, a Minister for Film has been appointed, Tom Clarke.2. The film and television industry is to play a substantial role in the welfare-to-work programme and this means it must help to… Continue reading Plans For The Pictures
Oasis’s management is threatening legal action against dozens of unofficial Net sites dedicated to the group. The band’s management has given unauthorised sites 30 days to remove any illegal material. This demonstrates that there is growing support for intellectual copyright laws to be introduced for the Internet.The Internet is fast becoming a virtual shopping mall,… Continue reading Web Round-Up – W/E 23/05/97
Digital Television Networks is so confident of winning its bid to launch digital terrestrial TV next year that is has opened negotiations with the BBC and Flextech, the channels who are working with the rival bidder, British Digital Broadcasting.DTN wants to buy the broadcast rights to several subscription channels under development by the new BBC-Flextech… Continue reading BBC All Out Winners
When seeing the new Punch for the first time one could be forgiven for thinking that you had been given the wrong magazine – a men’s weekly gossip title daring to take the same name as that 150-year old great British satirical institution. Yet this is the relaunch of the relaunched Punch and a more… Continue reading Relaunch Review – Punch
