It is expected to be announced by the Football Association that Premier League referees will be equipped with microphones to enable Sky, which has exclusive rights to live Premiership games, to broadcast referees remarks.…Bob Wilson, BBC soccer presenter, is involved in talks about a move to ITV, it has been confirmed today.
Yesterday’s price increase by the paper that started the price war, the Sun, saw the newspapers’ share prices respond accordingly; Daily Mail increased 10 to 1025p, Mirror Group 2 to 145p and United Newspapers 4 to 547p.
Walt Disney has announced a joint venture with CLT Multi Media, a Luxembourg based international broadcastser. The two groups plan to launch a German satellite television channel in January. The deal could herald a number of Disney-backed channels in other European countries, including the UK. The new channel will include Disney animation, feature films and… Continue reading Walt Disney In Satellite Venture
There have been calls for the resignation of the chairman of the Press Complaints Commission, Lord McGregor, after he admitted he had not read the article in the News of the World regarding Princess Diana and the nuisance telephone calls, despite the fact he had ruled earlier that it did not constitute a breach of… Continue reading Calls For Chairman Of PCC To Stand Down
The ITC has approved minor variations to the licences held by Central, Grampian, LWT and STV. The variations apply to the proportion of original productions/commissions required to be broadcast.Most licensees originally indicated they would expect to achieve 65%, the required minimum. Central, Grampian, LWT and STV proposed higher figures, but did not achieve them. The… Continue reading Variations To Channel 3 Licences
VNU has announced that it is to close its information technology title, Infomatics, replacing it with two titles, Infomatics Digest, aimed at sales and marketing readers, and Business IT Strategy, aimed at corporate readers. Both titles will have a controlled circulation.
IPC is claiming that Loaded, its “lads” style magazine which launched earlier this year has achieved average sales for its first three issues of 69,363. Arena and Esquire have circulations of 80,406 and 96,405 (J-Jun 94) respectively.
The Sun has from today increased its cover price by 2p to 22p, just over a year after the initial price cut from 25p started the price war. News International stressed that there were no immediate plans to increase the price of any other of their papers. This latest move means that the Times, at… Continue reading Sun Eases Price War
FourFourTwo magazine is a new football magazine launched this week from Haymarket Publishers. It has an initial print run of 100,000 and a cover price of £2.10 which consists of 132 pagesIn it’s first issue there is an interview with England manager Terry Venables, a look at some of the best and worst transfers in… Continue reading Fourfourtwo Magazine – First Issue Review
