The first full week’s figures for the ‘new’ Big Breakfast, whilst showing reach up 1.1m to 6.5m and peak quarter hour viewing up 100,000 to 0.7m, indicate that the programme has a very long way to go to achieve the heady heights of 1994, with peak quarter hour audiences of 1.9m, and weekly reach of… Continue reading New Big Breakfast – Still A Way To Go
http://www.adassoc.org.uk/aa/cont.htmlRecently launched, the Advertising Association’s website provides a comprehensive guide to the group’s services. The user can access details on the association’s members, services and general information. The site also provides information on current advertising issues and offers advice to students.The site has a simple design which gives it a very corporate and professional look.… Continue reading Website Of The Week: Advertising Association
Ulster TV yesterday said that it was no longer part of the TV3 consortium which plans to launch a national commercial TV channel in the Irish Republic *Ireland To Have Third Television Station. The broadcaster was putting up 60% of the channel’s finance but said that it was not being offered sufficient control in TV3… Continue reading Ulster Pulls Out Of TV3
The ITC has said that it will be reviewing Channel 5’s licence arrangement following news that the station’s launch will be delayed next year (see yesterday’s C5 Launch Delayed).It is part of the ITC’s licence conditions that C5 would launch on New Year’s Day and the delay will now have to be approved by the… Continue reading ITC To Look At C5 Licence
Applause, a new theatre magazine, is being launched in time for October. Priced at £2.50, the magazine provides a full round-up of London’s theatre scene and includes reviews of art exhibitions, opera, dance and books. Each edition will have special offers and promotions and contributions will come from various newspaper critics.Applause will appear in A4… Continue reading Applause For London Theatre
MACh 1, a consortium comprising of Meridian, Anglia and Chrysalis Sport, has been awarded the contract for coverage of Formula One on ITV.Out of the five bidders *(Five Bidders For Formula One), ITV believed MACh 1 offered the strongest package. Marcus Plantin, ITV Network director said: “We challenged the bidders to achieve the highest standards… Continue reading MACh 1 Gets F1 Contract
GGT, the former Gold Greenlees Trott, has bought French agency BDDP for Ffr836 million (£105m).GGT is to issue £55 million new shares, of which around £35m will go to BDDP shareholders. BDDP is the third largest advertising agency in France and the fifteenth largest in the United States.
UK Gold has bought around 700 hours of programmes including Crossroads, Boon, Spitting Image and Chancer from CTE, the Carlton-owned distributor.The sale represents CTE’s largest-ever sale of programmes to a non-ITV UK broadcaster and is UK Gold’s biggest non-launch acquisition. The multi-million pound deal will provide UK Gold with programming well into the next century.UK… Continue reading UK Gold Buys More Carlton Shows
The Evening Standard this week launches a new section for its Wednesday edition. The supplement, entitled Evening Standard Homes & Property, contains a mix of classifieds and features. Articles cover aspects of the home such as interior design ideas and guides to mortgages. The launch of the new section comes at a time when the… Continue reading Evening Standard Launches New Section
Channel 5 Broadcasting confirmed to MediaTel today that the channel will definitely not be launching on New Year’s Day.C5 say that this is because of the Government’s announcement this week *C5 And DTI Reach Agreement which means an extra 1.8 million homes will be able to receive the new terrestrial channel. While C5 had always… Continue reading C5 Launch Delayed
