ITV’s Vice: The Sex Trade was the subject of a number of complaints to the ITC according to the Commission’s latest Programme Complaints and Interventions bulletin.The three-part documentary, screened at the end of last year at 9:00pm, investigated the world of prostitutes, their clients and those who attempt to prevent or police the trade. The… Continue reading ITV’s Vice Documentary Sparks Complaints
Jim Brown, executive chairman of regional newspaper publisher Newsquest, has said that he is ‘cautiously optimistic’ that his company should see another good year during 1999.“Recruitment advertising, an important economic guide, has held up promisingly in the early period of 1999. The general strength of local economies remains important to regional newspaper businesses, and we… Continue reading Newsquest ‘Cautiously Optimistic’ For 1999
Future Publishing is planning a raft of new magazine launches in the coming weeks starting with the dirt bike magazine, MXUK, on 14 April. This will be followed by a number of launches from the publisher’s large stable of computing titles: Internet Advisor, Windows Answers and Computer Publishing are all expected to launch in April/May.MXUK… Continue reading Magazine Launches For Future
Chronos Publishing, publisher of the two weekly gay magazines Pink Paper and Boyz, is to launch a new music and clubbing title called Fluid. The monthly, which launches on 22 April, will target the ‘burgeoning gay crowd’ involved in club dance nights.Fluid will be edited by the Evening Standard‘s Hot Tickets gay correspondent, David G.… Continue reading Gay Publishers Launch New Music And Clubbing Title
The Guardian is expected to announce a new look next week, including editorial changes and a different typeface. This would be the first redesign in over a decade for the national newspaper. The Daily Mail has appointed John Teal as advertisement director. He replaces Mike Ironside who became MD of the Mail On Sunday in… Continue reading Newsline Brief
Dialog Corporation, the online information company formed by the merger of MAID and Knight Ridder in 1997 (see Maid Acquisition To Go Ahead), is aiming to reduce its £155 million debt burden in order to invest in new internet-based products.Michael Mander, chairman of Dialog, admitted that revenues from Knight Ridder had taken longer to turn… Continue reading Dialog Focuses On Debt Reduction And New Net Products
Business magazine publisher, Reed Business Information, is to become the latest in a lengthening line of companies to offer free access to the internet. The new service, called Reed Connect, will target the readers of its business titles in four initial markets: property, science, agriculture and IT. RBI, a division of Reed Elsevier, will promote… Continue reading Reed Business To Offer Free Internet Access
Dialog Corporation’s first full-year financial results, which showed that the company has moved into profitability for the first time (see Dialog Focuses On Debt Reduction And New Net Products), pushed shares up by 9˝p to close at 94˝p yesterday.The Daily Mail continued to strengthen following the announcement of an internet tie-in with Dixons’ Freeserve (see… Continue reading Sharewatch
Internet fever hit the Daily Mail & General Trust yesterday when its internet division, Associated New Media, announced a content deal with Dixons’ free service provider, Freeserve (see Freeserve And ANM Sign Web Content Deal). Shares rocketed following the news, closing 128źp up at 3,231źp.Yesterday’s Daily Telegraph report that the Monopolies and Mergers Commission has… Continue reading Sharewatch
Dixons’ successful free internet service, Freeserve, and Associated New Media (ANM), producers of the UK Plus sites, have signed a deal which will see UK Plus power the internet search and directory service for Freeserve’s million plus customers.ANM’s Soccernet service will also provide programming for Freeserve’s new football channel. ANM, which is the new media… Continue reading Freeserve And ANM Sign Web Content Deal
