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NBC Super Channel has announced the appointment of Rick Plata, the former Media Director of Burkitt, Weinreich Bryant as Head of Strategic Planning.

Chris Evans is to take over from Steve Wright as presenter of Radio 1’s Breakfast Show it was announced yesterday, following Wright’s resignation last month. Chris Evans, who it is hoped will improve Radio 1’s declining ratings, is to become Radio 1’s highest paid DJ, on an estimated £350,000 salary. Evans will start on April… Continue reading Chris Evans To Join Radio 1

Overall TV viewing is up 2.8% on the same period last year, though ITV and ITV/C4 are unchanged on last year figures. The top non-soap opera programme on ITV is International Gladiators, on Channel 4, Cutting Edge and on BBC1, is Casualty.The National Lottery viewing is up to 14.96 million compared to 14.71 million last… Continue reading TV Viewing Summary

MTV Europe has made senior promotions within its Ad Sales Department. Boris Kaz has been named Senior Vice President, Ad Sales, with overall responsibility for all of MTV and VH-1 ad sales. Louise Angus has been appointed Vice President of Ad Sales and Marc Conneely is Vice President of Syndication, Licensing and Ad Sales.

Emap are about to launch a new computing magazine, Internet, on the 24th of February. It will be a monthly, priced at £2.50 with an initial print run of 50,000.It is described as a practical guide and is aimed at anyone who is interested in the Internet.Ad Manager: Matt Townend Tel: 0171 388 243Email no… Continue reading New Emap Launch

The Independent Television Commission has introduced new guidelines to its programme code, to have immediate effect from today. Amendments have been made to most sections of the Code.There are tightened restrictions on privacy and gathering of information; ‘Interviews sought on private property without the subject’s prior agreement should not be included in a programme unless… Continue reading New Programming Guidelines

Yesterday at a news conference ahead of a G7 conference in Brussels, the Director General of the BBC, John Birt expressed his concerns over the European Commission’s introduction of quotas for non European television programmes.He told MEP’s that a technical directive passed by the EU’s telecommunications ministers in November could allow a few powerful companies… Continue reading Birt Warns Of Monopoly Control Of Satellite Operators

The Saatchi & Saatchi group is to change its name to Cordiant plc. The proposed name change, in a circular sent to Saatchi shareholders today, is meant to express “the new spirit within the company, characterised by accord and shared purpose”.The main purpose of the name change is to distance the holding company from the… Continue reading Saatchis Group To Change Name

QualitiesJanuary was a good month for the qualities, with all of them except the Financial Times recording increases on December 1994. The Times recorded the highest increase month on month, up 5.5%. However, the success story for January appears to be the Independent and its Sunday sister paper, which both managed to record significant increases… Continue reading National Press Round-Up – January

MTV has formed a partnership with Primequity, a South African media company, and Johnny Clegg, the South African recording star to launch a 24-hour MTV Network in South Africa. MTV will apply for a broadcast license to launch the network in late 1996. MTV South Africa will also be available from launch via satellite to… Continue reading MTV To Launch MTV South Africa