At a presentation last night LWT revealed the schedule it believes will revitalise its Winter schedule and erase memories of disasters like Man O Man and The Shane Ritchie Experience. Granada chief David Liddiment admitted that LWT had experienced problems in the past, especially with the Spring schedule, but believed the Winter programmes are “fresher… Continue reading LWT Promise Revitalised Schedule
Future Publishing’s .Net magazine and the Financial Times have joined forces to create Doing Business On-line, a 32 page supplement designed and written to offer practical advice on how businesses can take advantage on the Internet.An initial print run of 460,000 has been set aside for the supplement which will be inserted in Wednesday December… Continue reading FT And .net Launch Internet Supplement
Future Publishing is to launch it’s first film related title called Total Film . The magazine, primarily aimed at male 18-30 readers, concentrates on mainstream feature and action-adventure movies and will have an intial print run of around 110,000 copies.Future has been expanding its core business over the past 18 months and already has a… Continue reading Future To Launch New Film Title
Contrary to trade press reports, the long-awaited daily sports title Sport First will not be launching in January. Editor Bob Harris told Newsline that though the publication was editorially ‘sound’, financial and print arrangements were unsatisfactory and would need to be significantly improved before a launch date was announced. Mr Harris said that negotiations were… Continue reading Sport First Hopes For Launch Next Year
The Christian cable channel Ark2 will have to delay its launch since it has failed to secure enough money to cover its costs.The channel was due to broadcast in October * Christian Cable Channel To Launch and then this was postponed until November 25 which now also seems unlikely. It is not clear whether the… Continue reading Ark2 In Financial Crisis
Media Audits, the advertising consultancy, is to launch a new service early next year to help direct response advertisers get better value from their TV ad campaigns.The new service will link response levels with advertising spots and will be based on a pool of information on clients’ DRTV campaigns including channel, spot duration, transmission time,… Continue reading Media Audits Launches DRTV Evaluation Service
Carlton television, the London weekday ITV franchise, is to move Australian soap opera Home & Away back to its original 5.10pm evening slot from 6.00pm starting Monday November 25th.The move is being made to accommodate several new early evening programmes that will be starting in that week, these include two editions of Carlton’s soap London… Continue reading Home & Away Moves Again
The Family Channel is believed to be considering changing its name to the Challenge Channel following the appointment of TBWA as its ad agency. The relaunch of the channel will see a shift toward themed weekends, evening quiz shows and daily dramas catering for housewives.The channel was to have relaunched in the autumn, but because… Continue reading Family Channel Planning Relaunch
The Channel Television group, Channel Islands Communications, has announced pre-tax profits for the six months to September of £653,000, which is the best first half trading performance in the company’s history.Group chairman Major John Riley referred to strong growth in local ad revenue and said that overall turnover is up 12% on the same period… Continue reading Channel TV Posts Record Results
According to press reports BSkyB is in talks with HSBC, the banking group that owns Midland Bank, regarding a joint deal which would offset some of the costs of digital satellite TV.It is believed that the plans involve BSkyB offering banking services via its satellite system in return for subsidies to its set-top decoding box.… Continue reading BSkyB Talks To Bank Over Digital Deal
