According to a report in The Sunday Times, Sunday Business founder Tom Rubython is being sued over unpaid bills.ARC International Advertising, who at one stage was the paper’s ad agency, is apparently issuing a writ against Rubython for £75,000 after he allegedly wrote a bouncing cheque. At the same time Albert Zlotnick, an American investor… Continue reading Sunday Business Sued Over Unpaid Bills
Exchange & Mart will be launching its own Internet site on 3 June to create the biggest classified motoring web address in the UK. The site is the result of a collaboration between Link House Publications, publishers of Exchange & Mart, and sister company United Provincial Newspapers (UPN).Initially the service will carry over 50,000 vehicles… Continue reading Exchange & Mart Launches Net Site
Hugh Davies is leaving the research and marketing department of CLT (Talk Radio, Atlantic 252, Country 1035AM) to become the first Research and Sales Support Manager of Chrysalis Radio (Heart FM, Heart 106.2 London and Galaxy).Davies, whose career also includes roles in the research departments of Capital Radio and Classic FM, joins Chrysalis on Monday… Continue reading Further Talk Radio Departure
The Observer has appointed Justine Picardie to the position of editor of its Life Magazine. She joins from the Sunday Telegraph Magazine where she has been Commissioning Editor since March this year. She has previously worked for the Independent on Sunday’s Sunday Review, the Sunday Times and Marie Claire. Her appointment will be effective from… Continue reading Observer Appoints Life Editor
Combined ITV/C4 revenue for April, based on agency estimates, came in at £189.949 million, an increase of 6.3% on last year’s April total. The ITV only figure, at £145.949 million was up 3.9%, whilst C4’s total, £44 million, was an increase of 15.1% on last year. The ITV/C4 ratio was 77:23, a slight decrease for… Continue reading TV Revenue – April
The ITC has launched the first stage of a public consultation on the licensing of digital terrestrial television.Under the Broadcasting Bill which is now before Parliament, the ITC will be responsible for regulating the carriers of services (the multiplex operators) and the programme providers. The first stage of consultation concerns the multiplex operators, for which… Continue reading ITC Consults On Digital TV Licensing
For the fourth year in a row, the Milton Keynes Citizen has won the top award, Free Newspaper of the Year (more than 40 pages) in the Newspaper Society’s 1996 free newspaper awards. The judges said it had held its supremacy despite fierce competition.The Ayr and District Leader was named Free Newspaper of the Year… Continue reading Milton Keynes Citizen Triumphs
Launched on 22nd May, Conde Nast’s GQ Active is billed as an expansion of GQs Body & Soul section. Priced at £2.50, it covers “health, fitness & sport for men” and concentrates on “doing it” (sport) as opposed to offering an “armchair pundits” insight. Following a common trend, the magazine is presented in a nineties… Continue reading Magazine Review : GQ Active (Summer 1996)
Alan Yentob, controller of BBC1, received one of TV’s top awards last night in the Royal Television Society presentation. He won the Judge’s award for reviving the channel’s popularity with programmes such as Pride and Prejudice, Ballykissangel and The Antiques Roadshow.Men Behaving Badly was voted best situation comedy and Shooting Stars best entertainment show. Helen… Continue reading BBC Chief Wins Top TV Award
The IPA has now persuaded all the main commercial television stations to phase out their handling charges. This comes after five years of negotiation which began with an undertaking by ITV in November 1992 to phase out their charges over a three year period. This was followed by Channel 4.The latest companies to agree to… Continue reading IPA Sees Successful End To Handling Charges
