The ITC has awarded the Central Cumbria local delivery franchise licence to Central Cumbria Cable & Telecoms Ltd. A bid of £7756.98 was made and Central Cumbria Cable & Telecoms are committed to provide 70,518 homes by the year 2002.The ITC is also inviting applications for the local delivery franchises of Thanet and Canterbury and… Continue reading ITC Awards Central Cumbria Licence
United News & Media put in a strong performance on Tuesday when it announced its £592m purchase of exhibition group Blenheim, rising 40 to 693.5p.BSkyB also rose reasonably steadily throughout the week.. On Monday it advanced 8.5 to 658.5p on speculation that DFI, the German pay TV channel was about to buy a 5% stake.… Continue reading Sharewatch W/E 18/10/96
Nynex CableComms releases its third quarter results tomorrow. Nynex’s *Nynex Losses Decrease, published in August, showed an increase in revenue from its cable television service by 74% to £29.2m. Penetration rate also increased from 18.8% to 19.6%.September NRS figures are released on Wednesday. MediaTel subscribers will be able to access the figures via Talking Windows.… Continue reading The Week Ahead
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
Virgin Radio has announced a change in its daytime line-up which sees Russ ‘n Jono’s Breakfast Show extended an extra hour to 10am.The changes have also resulted in Jeremy Clark, who joined the station six weeks ago as overnight presenter, moving into a new afternoon slot between 1 and 4pm. Graham Dene, currently host of… Continue reading Virgin Radio Gets New Daytime Schedule
According to this week’s Campaign Paul Twivy, former chief executive of Bates Dorland, is threatening to sue the agency over alleged breach of contract.The wrangle concerns Twivy’s departure from the agency in September *Dorland Chief Exec Leaves. He is claiming wrongful dismissal, accusing Michael Bungey, Dorland’s chairman, of reneging on a promise to make him… Continue reading Twivy Issues Writ Against Dorlands
