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Teletext is to add seven new sections to its ITV and C4 service. The new sections include regional transport directories, education pages and environmental features.

Following eleven months of discussion Eurospace, a trading division of Carat, is to take over TBWA Holmes Knight Ritchie’s £13m media planning and buying operation. TBWA’s three strong media department will be moving to Eurospace’s offices, under the control of Charlie Varley, Eurospace MD.The future of TBWA’s media department had been in doubt since 1991… Continue reading Eurospace Takes Over TBWA’s Media

HTV is selling its poster and market information company, Cordmate Investments, to Alban Securities for £2.2m; although after repayment of inter-company debts the net sale proceeds will only be £500,000.

Satellite and Video Today has been sold to 21st Century Publishing, which also publishes Satellite TV Europe. Recently formed Nexus Media Communications has bought Grower Publications, the family owned company which publishes The Grower. EMAP is spending an estimated £1.5m on relaunching its biking titles, which include Motor Cycle News (already the recipient of £1m… Continue reading Magazine News

Independent Local Radio stations, Radio Tay in Dundee and Mercia Sound in Coventry have both submitted unopposed bids to retain their broadcasting licences for another eight years from January 1 1995.Both services were the sole applicants for the re-advertised FM and AM frequencies in their areas at the April 6 deadline.

Tracy Waring, ex JWT and AGB, has been appointed as research manager in Redwood Publishing’s recently set up in-house research department.Headway Home & Law Publishing has appointed specialist magazine division managing director Ray Lewis as MD of its restructured Consumer, Health & Business Publishing Group, following the resignation of Peter Whelham.

QualitiesThe six-monthly ABC’s for October-March’93 do not show much difference on last month’s figures. Once again the Sundays have fared better than the dailies, with the Independent On Sunday rising by 6.5% year-on-year.The Daily Telegraph, which tops the quality table, has shown a slight decrease of 1.8% to 1,033,573 year-on-year. Despite its mid month relaunch… Continue reading National Press-Round-Up – March

Increased audience share and cost savings, estimated at £5m, are the main factors behind GMTV’s April 19th relaunch. The key changes are as follows: Top of The Morning Slot – cut by 10 minutes, and starting later, 9.00am News will come from a separate part of the set, read by new recruit Penny Smith (ex-Sky),… Continue reading GMTV Relaunches Package

New marketing company, Southgate Management is setting up this week, aiming to be the first to present jockeys as brand spokespeople.Simon Halden, the company’s marketing director believes marketing has uncovered fresh ground by entering the realm of horse racing; “Racing has never had marketing expertise brought to it”, he reasons.Five jockeys, including Lester Piggott, will… Continue reading Jockeys Endorse Brand Sponsorship

National Heritage Secretary, Peter Brooke is to host talks with the ITC and Channel 3 companies over government policy on TV company take-overs by foreign and domestic predators.The talks have been prompted by all-party demands for an extension of the take-over moratorium which runs out at the end of the year.Rebels want the take-over ban… Continue reading Government Rethinks TV Take-Overs