QVC, Britain’s only television shopping channel has announced another record breaking quarter, with net sales for Q1 1996 at an all-time high of £13.9 million, a 97% increase on the same period in 1995.During the quarter, QVC gained 98,000 new customers, answered 1.5 million calls and shipped 796,000 items. On Sunday 3 March, QVC set… Continue reading QVC Continues To Break Sales Records
Conde Nast has announced that it will be launching a new magazine on 23rd May. GQ-Active will be a bi-monthly release covering men’s health, fitness and sports interests in the style of GQ. It will have an initial print-run of 120,000 and will cost £2.50.Conde Nast will also be adding more titles to its Internet… Continue reading Conde Nast To Launch New Magazine
John Bartle, Joint Chief Executive of Bartle Bogle Hegarty began his second year as President of the IPA yesterday when he was re-elected at the IPA’s AGM.Bruce Haines, Managing Director of Leagas Delaney, was re-elected Hon Secretary. Chris Whitworth of Publicis was elected Hon Treasurer. He succeeds John Page of Delaney Fletcher Bozell.In the IPA… Continue reading IPA Officer Election Results
Airtime sales house Laser has signed a deal with New Media Sales which will represent Laser on an international scale, attracting new clients from Europe and the rest of the world to the UK TV forum.New Media Sales, a firm specialising in international television advertising and sponsorship sales, will focus on developing new clients, many… Continue reading Laser To Expand International Business
Admap are organising a conference devoted to the future of electronic media trading. Speakers include senior media practitioners from both agencies and media owners plus the major suppliers of such services.Speakers include Tim Wootton from TSMS, Tony Weble from AMV.BBDO, Mike Cobbe of Cobbe Smith Terris, Simon Thomas of Leo Burnett, Kevin O’Brien of Reuters… Continue reading Conference To Discuss Electronic Media Trading
Future Publishing will be publishing a new computer title on May 16th. Playstation Power will be a mix of both games and consumer computer magazines. It will have an initial print-run of 55,000 and cost £2.75.Rumoured launches include Gruner & Jahr’s Prima Baby in June and a celebrity magazine Top People in the Autumn. IPC… Continue reading New Magazine Launches
NTL has been chosen by The Weather Network to distribute its new service by satellite to cable operators all around Britain. The service begins on 2nd June (Newsline 15/04) and will be delivered digitally via the Orion 1 satellite using NTL’s new all-inclusive distribution package.The Weather Network will be a 24-hour service offering ‘more than… Continue reading NTL To Distribute Weather Network
Press rumours indicate that Flextech, the cable and satellite group, will scrap The Family Channel and replace it with a new service aimed at upmarket women.The new channel, which would launch in September, would probably be run by Nigel Packard who is currently The Family Channel’s director of programming. It is believed that most of… Continue reading Flextech Set To Scrap Family Channel
Granada TV is apparently in the process of planning a Liverpool or Manchester-based cable channel.The service could be launched by early next year and would be developed in conjunction with local media such as newspapers or radio stations. Granada would then provide regional programming for the service. The venture would be separate from Granada’s other… Continue reading Granada In Local Cable Talks
The Independent Television Commission has today confirmed the grant of the licence to provide the Channel 5 television service to Channel 5 Broadcasting.The ITC had awarded the licence in October subject to a further period of 12 weeks during which the technical details of the licence were finalised. The process was further delayed by the… Continue reading ITC Grants Channel 5 Licence
