International News & Media, the West Midlands publisher, has confirmed details of a new national newspaper it plans to launch later this year.Today’s News will be a 36-page daily tabloid covering general news. International told MediaTel that the title will cost 30p and have an initial print-run of 300,000, with an expected circulation of 200,000.… Continue reading New National Paper Planned
Duncan Lewis, the chief executive of Granada Media, believes that the ITV schedule requires radical changes and development if the organisation is to cope in the increasingly competitive TV market. According to the FT Mr Lewis also believes that a new kind of relationship needs to be struck between ITV and advertisers. He maintains that… Continue reading Granada Boss Seeks Increased Competitiveness
The 1996 European Television Symposium, to be held in November in Prague, will focus on the development of commercial broadcasting in Central Europe and the difficulties facing the sector in Western Europe.In particular the problem of developing ‘people meters’ which will effectively measure an ever more fragmented television audience will be discussed. The symposium will… Continue reading Symposium To Tackle TV ‘Crisis’
The Guardian will be introducing two new sections to its Saturday edition. The Week is a new current affairs section providing a review of the week with features, comment and background information on the week’s big stories. Jobs & Money will provide coverage of the converging issues relating to the workplace and jobs, personal finance… Continue reading New Sections For Saturday Guardian
Inflation figures for July were in line with City expectations, with a headline rate of 2.2% and underlying rate of 2.8%. This is an increase of 0.1% on June’s figure. For RPI trends subscribers can access MediaTel’s Encyclomedia section in Talking Windows.
Granada Media Group has announced a new organisation structure designed to give its operations a better chance of competing in the changing media industry.The new structure will give a separate focus to GMG’s production and broadcasting businesses and is aimed at expanding production business within and beyond ITV in the UK and in international markets.… Continue reading Granada Announces New Organisation Structure
IPC Magazines are launching a Loaded annual entitled Loaded 1st Scrapbook: Strange Phenomena From Beyond Closing Time. IPC believe the annual will be well received following an increase in ABC circulation figures for Loaded.A Shoot and Soccer Stars Annual are also being released following successful circulations in previous years.Loaded Annual is on sale from September… Continue reading IPC To Launch Loaded Annual
MTV Europe has switched Blah Blah Blah‘s publisher from Ray Gun to Attic Futura in a move which, according to MTV, is aimed at broadening the music title’s distribution to the Continent.Sandra Keenan, vice president of MTV Europe’s corporate affairs, dismissed talk that Ray Gun had dropped Blah Blah Blah due to poor sales. She… Continue reading MTV Changes Blah Blah Blah Publisher
