HTV has announced that it is to start showing live football again on terrestrial television from next month. Five Nationwide Football League matches will be shown on the West of England ITV franchise before Christmas, with more following in the New Year.Live matches to be shown include Bolton Wanderers visit to Swindon Town on December… Continue reading Live League Football Returns To Terrestrial Television
The CIA Group has said that it wants its dispute with Laser *YTTV And Granada Issue Writs Against CIA put before an independent body such as the ITC for arbitration.CIA is proposing to put £832,453, the amount which Laser is claiming it is owed, into an account from which it would pay the sales house… Continue reading CIA Looks To ITC For Arbitration
Bringing its recent investment in new media to $10m, WPP Group has entered into a corporate partnership with Media Technology Ventures (MTV) – a US investment company specialising in information and entertainment technology start-ups. Other investors in MTV include Motorola Multimedia Group (broadband communications and cable modems provider), STET (telecommunications holding company), Justsystems Inc (applications… Continue reading WPP Partners Interactive Investment Company
According to the latest CIA MediaLab survey, Good Housekeeping is the brand that adults would most like to see being turned into a TV show. This comes as the ITC is considering relaxing its rules on “masthead programming”: at the moment a TV show can be turned into a magazine but a magazine cannot be… Continue reading Support Shown For Good Housekeeping TV Show
September’s cinema admissions show a 22.4% decrease year-on-year, averaging 1.85 million per week. This brings the third quarter average to 2.62 million per week, a 1% increase on last year. The monthly total for September was 7.925 million.Top grossing film of the month was once again Independence Day, taking £7.7m, followed by a relatively strong… Continue reading September Cinema Admissions Fall
Young people are turning their back on computer games and returning to music, according to results of a new survey, Youth TGI 1996.Findings reveal that youth are now much more likely to buy pre-recorded music and read music magazines than they were a year ago and have greatly reduced the time they spend playing with… Continue reading Youth Shun Computer Games For Music
Kenneth Clark, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, this morning announced that interest rates would rise 0.25% to 6%. This is the first time there has been a rise for nearly two years. Mr Clarke said the move was designed to “maintain a firm grip on inflation.”
Revenue According to agency estimates total TV ad revenue for September reached £184.71m, an increase of 2.29% year-on-year. ITV’s revenue remained reasonably static, increasing 0.18% to £141.71m, while Channel 4 rose by 9.9% to £43m. The ratio between ITV and Channel 4 for September was 77:23.Overall among the ITV contractors there was very little change.… Continue reading TV Round-Up – September
The recently launched Orange mobile phone website has been designed in the same vein as their enigmatic television commercials with the emphasis on minimalism, using mainly orange and black & white graphics, lots of photographs of happy smiling people and not a capital letter in sight. The site is very concise and easy to navigate… Continue reading Website Of The Week – Orange
Northcliffe’s Plymouth Evening Herald and Gloucester Citizen this month won admittance to the IFRA Colour Club, the international body which sets technical standards for all aspects of newspaper production.Northcliffe’s titles are the first English newspapers to be admitted to the body. This year there were 71 applications from 22 countries. A spokeswoman at the regional… Continue reading Northcliffe Titles Win Accolade
