The launch of The Guardian ‘s extra Monday sports pages has been postponed until next Monday. The paper originally intended the new section to launch on Easter Monday *Guardian Makes A Sporting Gesture.The new broadsheet sports section will cover all the main sporting activities every Monday. It will include a comprehensive results section, reports and… Continue reading Better Late Than Never At The Guardian
C5’s share of peaktime viewing fell from 5.8% on its opening night to 2.7% on Monday evening, according to unofficial estimates. Family Affairs put in a modest performance on Sunday, with 1.5 million viewers, but this fell to around 300,000 the next night. The biggest audience for Monday evening was for the Helen Mirren film… Continue reading C5 Viewing Plummets
The latest Television report from Zenith Media predicts that pay-TV will account for 17% of all viewing by the end of 2001, the year it expects pay revenues to overtake advertising at £3.5 billion and £3.4 billion respectively in today’s prices.Other parts of the report state: free-to-air television will be “very much alive and well”,… Continue reading Zenith Say Pay-TV Will Outstrip Ad Revenue By 2001
After much speculation *New Rank For Carlton, Carlton Communications has confirmed that it has bought Rank Film Distributors Ltd, the UK’s largest film distributor.The deal, which cost Carlton £65 million, gives Carlton access to 740 feature films in the Rank library, the largest independent film library in the UK. The library spans over sixty years… Continue reading Carlton Buys Rank
Prior to the launch of Channel 5, Newsline interviewed several key players in advertising to discover what the general feeling was towards the new channel *ISBA Wishes Channel 5 Success. Now that Five has gone live, Newsline has gone back to the industry to find out what it thinks about the final result.Andrew Canter, group… Continue reading Channel 5 – What The Industry Thinks
Negotiations aimed at screening the first live television debate between the leaders of the main political parties appear to be faltering, as each party made conditions which were unacceptable to the others.While both ITV and the BBC are keen to broadcast such a debate, it is looking increasingly unlikely that it will take place. Talks… Continue reading TV Leadership Debate Falters
The Radio Authority has announced that, having received assurances from Border Television plc about its proposed acquisition of Sun City Radio Ltd, it has decided that the company’s ownership of this licence could not be expected to operate against the public interest. In particular, Border Television guaranteed that it would safe-guard the separate news operation… Continue reading The Radio Authority Rules
BSkyB is still seeking funds to help establish its digital television projects *BSkyB Talks To Bank Over Digital Deal. The company is reported to be looking for over £600 million to set-up its digital TV venture. This badly needed cash injection will be used to subsidise the price of set-top boxes.
The ITC has announced that the licence fees payable by its licensees in April to December 1997 will, for the first time, remain at 1996 levels.The Commission has decided that the licence fee tariffs for 1997 should provide a total income of £15.7 million, the same requirement as the previous year. Taking account of the… Continue reading Licence Fees Remain Static
It has been reported that the BBC’s multi-million dollar joint-venture with American based Discovery Communications has been delayed until June this year *BBC To Set Up 8 New Cable Channels.This is six months later than originally forecast, and will mean that the launch of the international channels will be postponed until early 1998. The deal… Continue reading BBC Delay Link-Up With Discovery
