Unconfirmed reports in the weekend press suggest that BSkyB is attempting to wrestle the rugby union Five Nations Championship away from the BBC; the bid made for the exclusive rights is suggested to be £175m. The current contract with the BBC is worth an estimated £27 million and expires in March 1997.BSkyB already has the… Continue reading BSkyB Bid For Five Nations?
According to press reports Carlton Communications is planning to start a vintage programme channel just days after Granada announced that it was to do the same. Programmes likely to feature include Soldier, Soldier and Inspector Morse – Carlton has access to the Central library, as well as their own.Michael Green, Carlton chairman said last week,… Continue reading Carlton To Launch UK Gold Rival
BSkyB is already planning several new satellite channels just a month after the launch of seven channels including Disney, Paramount and Playboy.Director of programmes at BSkyB, David Elstein, gave details of the new channels at the 1995 Forman Lecture in Manchester last night. He said that an arts channel, an education channel, a computer channel… Continue reading BSkyB Plans More Channels
The majority of viewers want more guidelines on television programme content, such as pre-transmission warnings, according Broadcasting Standards Council research. 94% of viewers would welcome more guidelines especially for programmes that contain violence, sexual material and bad language.At present the most reliable indicator of content is seen to be programme timing, with 65% of people… Continue reading Television Programmes Need More Content Warnings
The IPA elected three new companies into its membership at a Council meeting yesterday;M&C Saatchi LtdSpotlight Advertising LtdWalsh Trott Chick SmithThere are now 226 agencies with an IPA membership.
Border Television has revealed pre-tax profits of £1.11m for the six months to October 1995, an increase of 31% over the corresponding period last year. Turnover increased by 13% to £6.3m. An increased share of the ITV market and a higher contribution from Century Radio, which began broadcasting in September 1994, attributed to the good… Continue reading Border Results
The second challenge to the Channel 5 licence award begins in the High Court today, with UKTV accusing the ITC of allowing the winner to enhance its bid after the applications were submitted.UKTV will argue that it was unreasonable and illegal for the ITC to allow such enhancement, while the ITC is likely to insist… Continue reading Second Channel 5 Challenge Begins Today
Worrying research for the advertising industry has been released by Lowe Howard-Spink, which claims that approximately one third of the population actively avoid half the advertising on television and another third see only 79% of the ads transmitted in and around the programmes they watch.More worrying still is the fact that the number of people… Continue reading “Ad Avoiders” Make Up One Third Of Population
McCann Erickson has hived off its entire media department into a new media dependent called Universal McCann, as of today; Universal is a 100% owned subsidiary of McCanns.The company will remain within the McCanns building “for the foreseeable future.” The managing director will be Trista Grant, but the structure of the board is not yet… Continue reading McCanns Forms Media Dependent
The ITC has clarified its position on the Channel 4 funding formula following press reports yesterday that they supported Channel 4’s claims. The ITC believes that the current funding formula should be retained, as planned, until 1997, and should then be revised, not scrapped. The ITC would hope to see a situation where under normal… Continue reading ITC Supports C4’s Call For Funding Change
