Sky Scottish, STV and BSkyB’s cable and satellite venture, has announced details of its schedule for its launch on November 1. 30 minute programmes will run daily between 18.00 and 20.00 straight after Granada’s Talk TV on the same frequency. The launch programme, This is Sky Scottish, will be presented by David Rintoul of Doctor… Continue reading Sky Scottish Reveals Line-Up
Trinity’s Belfast Telegraph has launched a new Saturday morning newspaper in Belfast called Saturday Extra. It is a 60-page tabloid with three sections covering news, sport and TV listings and costs 20p. Its main competition will be the Irish News, which costs 32p, and Tindle Newspapers’ the News Letter which sells for 35p.Belfast Telegraph: 01504… Continue reading New Paper For Belfast
Today sees IPC’s ‘biggest magazine launch in eight years’ – Now magazine – ‘The smarter women’s weekly’.Aimed at BC1C2 women aged 20-44 the title launches into what is becoming a fairly crowded women’s weekly market and unfortunately offers nothing very new or different. The magazine’s content varies little from magazines likely to be its main… Continue reading Now Magazine – First Issue Review
One can actually point out some of those responsible for the current growth in interest in the areas of strange phenomena: new age philosophy and things that go bump in the night. Scully, Mulder, Mystic Meg, and Yuri Geller all have a lot to answer for. The Fortean Times was actually founded in 1973, and… Continue reading Website Of The Week: Fortean Times
The ITC has decided that Scottish Television’s acquisition of Caledonian Publishing *STV Takes Over Caledonian does not operate against the public interest and can go ahead.The ITC and Office of Fair Trading launched a public interest test regarding the takeover as part of the provisions for the new cross-media ownership rules which were introduced by… Continue reading STV Gets Approval For Caledonian Takeover
Qualities September ABCs released on Friday show that among the daily quality newspapers the Times has performed the best, further narrowing the gap between itself and the Daily Telegraph. The News International title increased its circulation to 810,493 copies in comparison to the Telegraph which grew to just over 1 million copies. The FT and… Continue reading National Newspaper Round-Up – September
ITV is believed to be planning a new soap which will go head to head with EastEnders in the Tyne-Tees region.Quayside will be based around the lives of young professionals in a Northern docklands setting complete with swish bars, restaurants and penthouse flats. The programme is set for launch on January 7 and, depending on… Continue reading EastEnders To Get New Rival
The IPC Weeklies Group has announced the company’s biggest magazine launch in eight years with the publication of Now tomorrow.Supported by a £3 million campaign the title will be glossy and upmarket, cost 60p and have an initial print-run of 1.2 million. The first issue will have a special price of 30p. Editorially, Now will… Continue reading IPC Launch Women’s Weekly
The Independent Television Commission has announced that by Tuesday’s deadline all fifteen ITV companies together with Channel 4, Channel 5, S4C and Teletext had confirmed their intention to launch digital services in 1998.There will be six digital multiplexes, or ‘frequencies’, on which channels will be carried: the first will carry BBC services; the second has… Continue reading TV Companies Guarantee Digital Places
