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
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
Following last week’s revelation that Thomson Regional Newspapers is planning to counteract the effects of the recession by selling off one fifth of its free titles, it has now emerged that Midland Independent Newspapers is showing interest in purchasing the company’s Herald & Post papers.Although the group has yet to reach an agreement as to… Continue reading MIN Shows Interest In TRN Titles
The Independent Radio and Television Commission has agreed to allow the merger of two regional radio stations in the south of Ireland, putting Shannonside Radio and Northern Sound Radio under the umbrella of Midland Radio Group Ltd.The group consists of the original shareholders from both stations and they will operate from their present bases. Shannonside… Continue reading Irish Radio In Joint Venture
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
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
