The Evening Standard has announced two promotions: Zoe Bartlett to the position of Ad Manager and Christine O’Doherty to Agency Sales Controller.These moves result from the promotion of Gavin Baylis to General Manager of a new division of Associated Newspapers Ltd.
The London-based Middle East Broadcasting Centre believes it will be able to win an additional 10 million viewers with its new transmission via terrestrial transponders.This means that the satellite station’s reception in the Middle East will now be clearer and viewers will not need a satellite dish or any other reception device.Middle East Broadcasting Centre:… Continue reading MBC Reaches 10 Million New Viewers
Speculation continues to mount over the possible takeover of media group Pearson. The latest candidate rumoured to be interested in Pearson, which owns the FT, Penguin books and Thames Television, is Viacom.With revenues of more than $11bn, Viacom is now the world’s second largest media group after Time Warner. Analysts believe that the similarities between… Continue reading Media Takeover Rumours
IPC Magazines has sold Practical Woodworking magazine to Nexus Media Ltd. Both the International Practical Woodworking Show and the National Practical Woodworking Show will also transfer with the sale.Nexus, who will publish Practical Woodworking from the April issue, already publish The Woodworker magazine. Practical Woodworking, whose circulation has been in steady decline is a monthly,… Continue reading IPC’s Practical Woodworking Sold To Nexus
Following Rajar’s confirmation in January that the next set of Rajar figures, Q4 1995, are expected to show a drop in weekly reach, the release of these figures,(scheduled for this Friday, 9th February) is now to be delayed until mid-March.The new diary format for respondents means that virtually all services, both national and local will… Continue reading Rajar Figures Delayed
The Department of National Heritage has published a Government paper, ‘Broadcast Sports Rights: Informing the Debate’, which aims to ‘help inform the public and Parliamentary debate’ on the question of TV coverage of sports events.Virginia Bottomley, National Heritage Secretary, said: “There is a widespread view that certain events are more than mere sporting occasions and… Continue reading Government Opens Debate On TV Sport
RevenueDecember was a poor month for ITV in terms of revenue, with ITV’s actual figure down on last year by 3.7%; this decrease, despite Channel 4’s increase of 11.3% year on year was enough to bring combined ITV/C4 revenue down by 0.6%. The total figure was £155.94m. Of this C4’s £36.72m represents 24%.Amongst the individual… Continue reading Television Round-Up – December
Dixon Moutrie Silkstone has poached two staff from agencies based in Leeds and Bradford to replace its group heads, Kerry King and Jenny O’Brien, as part of a round of job changes in northern agencies.DMS has recruited Sally Pitchforth (senior media executive at Poulter) and Dominic Geary (media executive at Judith Donovan Associates). O’Brien has… Continue reading Leeds Appointments
Virgin TV will not be appealing against the High Court decision of last Friday which dismissed its claim that the Channel 5 licence had been awarded unfairly to C5B.In a statement Virgin TV said that it had given the matter “detailed consideration” but had decided not to appeal, and added that it wished C5B the… Continue reading Virgin Not To Appeal Against C5 Decision
