Talk of a court battle between ITV and the Independent Television Commission (ITC) was in the air today after the industry watchdog told the broadcaster to move its Nightly News programme to an earlier slot. The culmination of a year-long tussle between the two, provoked by slumping audience figures for national and regional news on… Continue reading ITV’s Battle With The ITC Could End In Court
The Independent Television Commission (ITC) has told ITV to move its Nightly News programme to an earlier slot after it “unanimously rejected” the network’s proposals to improve audience figures for its evening news output. The regulator told ITV it could not accept its suggestions for additional investment in the 9pm-11pm peaktime period unless it scheduled… Continue reading ITC Tells ITV To Bring Forward Nightly News
NTL is continuing its football buying spree with the purchase of internet rights for Football League games. In a joint venture with the league the cable group will create an internet portal for all 72 clubs who wish to participate.The group will pay rights fees of up to £65m over five years and will share… Continue reading NTL Bags Football League Net Rights
A secret new project at IPC Media has lured Tessa Hilton from her position as editor-at-large at Women & Home. The only detail revealed about the launch so far is that it will be aimed at the “older” women, an increasingly crowded market (see Feature: Middle Youth Sector Strains As Two More Titles Plan To… Continue reading Appointments Brief
The fashion press may create its own self-regulatory body to monitor images of thin women in magazines and newspapers and even stop advertisers placing copy which shows “unnatural” body shapes. The proposal came out of yesterday’s “Body Image Summit”, organised by Minister for Women Tessa Jowell. The Broadcasting Standards Commission has also offered to play… Continue reading Fash Mags To Ban Waifs Following Body Image Summit
England’s defeat at the hands of Romania was watched by a peak audience of 19.3m when the BBC broadcast it on Tuesday night. Unofficial overnight figures put the average total of individuals watching at 17.5m. Of these 8.7m were adult men and 6.7m adult women.Despite Tuesday’s being the match that decided whether England would make… Continue reading UK TV Audiences Top 17m During England Defeat
A year on from its stock market flotation, Future Network was in positive mood for its AGM yesterday, celebrating growth and unveiling coming launches (see Future Looks Bright A Year On From Float). The market seemed less convinced, however, and share prices fell 17½p to £7.85.The deadline for ITV to submit its proposals to the… Continue reading Sharewatch
Future Network today announced strong growth in its net-based activities and unveiled a series of launches for the coming year. At its inaugural Annual General Meeting, chief executive Greg Ingham said the group, which floated on the London Stock Exchange a year ago today (see Price Set For Stake In Future), was on track to… Continue reading Future Looks Bright A Year On From Float
Adfast, the new net-based artwork delivery system funded by the regional press, will be demonstrated to industry figures at an exhibition this week. Over 7,000 delegates at the Total Publishing exhibition will be able to view the system, which currently holds more than 1,000 registered regional newspapers.The system was developed by the Newspaper Society to… Continue reading Adfast Rolls Out Across The UK
One of the world’s largest media-buying operations looks set to be created following yesterday’s deal between Publicis and Saatchi & Saatchi (see Publicis Buys Saatchi & Saatchi For £1.24bn). Publicis-owned Optimedia and Zenith, which is 50%-owned by Saatchi, are expected to begin merger talks on the possibility of combining their operations on completion of the… Continue reading Zenith And Optimedia Look Set To Merge On Completion Of Saatchi Deal
