Granada Television has been accused by the Shadow Heritage Secretary, Ann Clwyd, of concentrating more on making profits than its initial task of programme making. She has called on the Independent Television Commission to withdraw the company’s licence due to an excessive breach of contract.Programming promises in Granada’s franchise application have been broken, according to… Continue reading Granada Accused Of Breaching Contract
Local radio is continuing to grow in Ireland, at the expense of the national service, RTE, according to the latest JNLR/MRBI listener survey. Market share for regional radio stations has increase from 39% to 43% compared to a drop in RTE Radio 1 from 39% to 37%. Cork 96FM/County Sound is dominating the market in… Continue reading RTE Loses Out On Radio Listeners
Almost 60,000 copies of the Government document of the future of the BBC have already been requested by the public, according to the National Heritage Secretary, Peter Brooke.In a meeting of the Voice of the Listener and Viewer he revealed that a further 5,000 copies of the full consultation document have been sold, and the… Continue reading BBC Debate Draws Response
Almost 60,000 copies of the Government document of the future of the BBC have already been requested by the public, according to the National Heritage Secretary, Peter Brooke.In a meeting of the Voice of the Listener and Viewer he revealed that a further 5,000 copies of the full consultation document have been sold, and the… Continue reading BBC Debate Draws Response
The latest addition to the women’s monthly magazine market, Top Sante Health & Beauty, hits the newsstands today with an ambitious print run of 400,000. The magazine is modelled on the French title, also called Top Sante, but adapted for the UK market. Billed as “the magazine about feeling and looking good,” the UK Top… Continue reading Top Sante
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A drop in the value of Saatchi & Saatchi’s agency acquisitions from the 1980s may lead to the company writing off up to £600m on agencies worldwide to cover the loss. If this goes ahead it could mean quite a substantial loss for the year. A US agency, bought for £450m in 1986, is thought… Continue reading Saatchi To Write Off £600m
The Government has been told that it does indeed have the power to ban the controversial pornographic channel, Red Hot Television (formerly Red Hot Dutch) according to Collette Flesch, director general of EC’s Communication & Culture units.Speaking at the Financial Times Cable & Satellite conference yesterday Flesch seemed puzzled by the Government’s efforts to get… Continue reading Government Has Power To Ban Red Hot TV
UK SATELLITE TELEVISIONRecently appointed head of programming at BSkyB, David Elstein set out to show how much the television environment has changed since the launch of Sky and BSB in 1989 and how increasing competition is causing a growing upheaval in the relationship between consumers and suppliers of television.He points out that BSkyB has pioneered… Continue reading FT Cable & Satellite Conference
The Guardian & Manchester Evening News is thought to be in negotiations with Lonrho to discuss a buy-out of The Observer. The newspaper group has made bids for the paper in the past, all of which have been rejected.
Yesterday saw the opening of the Financial Times annual Cable & Satellite conference with speakers including William H Roedy, chief executive officer of MTV Europe who outlined the current situation in the Pan-European market and explained ‘lessons’ they have learned at MTV about how to make it a viable business.David Hatch, advisor to the director… Continue reading FT Cable
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