Liz Howell, director of programmes at GMTV, has resigned and will be replaced by Peter McHugh current editor of ‘The Time..The Place’ – the ITV morning chat programme. The resignation comes only three days after the appointment of Greg Dyke as chairman of the ailing station, and follows Dyke’s refusal to endorse Howell’s programming strategy… Continue reading Howell Leaves GMTV
Channel 4 and International Management Group have made a last minute £1.2m bid to host the World Chess Championship between Gary Kasparov and Nigel Short. If successful the event is likely to be held in London later this year.
Liz Howell, director of programmes at GMTV, has resigned and will be replaced by Peter McHugh current editor of ‘The Time..The Place’ – the ITV morning chat programme. The resignation comes only three days after the appointment of Greg Dyke as chairman of the ailing station, and follows Dyke’s refusal to endorse Howell’s programming strategy… Continue reading Howell Leaves GMTV
Channel 4 and International Management Group have made a last minute £1.2m bid to host the World Chess Championship between Gary Kasparov and Nigel Short. If successful the event is likely to be held in London later this year.
Yesterday IPC announced the launch of their new mass-market weekly listings magazine, TV & Satellite Week, due for release on March 2.The new weekly full colour magazine will focus on accurate, detailed listings for cable & satellite, as well as terrestrial channels. With a total pagination of 76, each day’s viewing will have 6 pages… Continue reading TV & Satellite Week Launch
LWT chief executive, Greg Dyke, came to the rescue of GMTV on Friday after the news broke that current chairman Harry Roche was resigning from the Breakfast channel, less than two months after its launch.Good Morning Television started off on a shaky foot in January but things hit an all time low last week when… Continue reading Dyke Repeats TV-Am Revival
The Carlton-led consortium bidding for ITN has announced that it may withdraw its offer if it cannot get the freehold on ITN’s £100m headquarters. The news suppliers are currently losing up to £6m a year on the 35-year lease.
The Radio Authority has re-advertised the ILR FM and AM licences for Peterborough currently held by Hereward Radio, part of Mid Anglia Radio. The closing date for applications is May 4 1993 and the new licences take effect from January 1995.Following the re-advertisement of the FM and AM licences for Southend and Chelmsford, the only… Continue reading IR Licences
In an effort to sell off Zenith Productions, Carlton Communications is planning to sell Action Time, a subsidiary of the production company, in a deal worth £6m. The remainder of Zenith is likely to be sold to management which will involve further dealings with Paramount, the US media group which has a 49% stake in… Continue reading Carlton To Sell
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Chief executive of Mirror Group Newspapers, David Montgomery, has given his word to the four banks backing the newspaper group that the Daily Mirror will keep its left stance and that he will no longer interfere in editorial matters which could shift the paper politically.NatWest, the group’s largest shareholder, fears that a change in stance… Continue reading Montgomery Promises Left Stance
