Carlton Communications has spent £91 million buying a library of more than 300 films and television programmes from Hollywood company Universal Studios. As well as films such as The Eagle Has Landed and The Big Easy, the library includes classic ITV programmes from the past such as The Saint and the mini-series Jesus of Nazareth.Also… Continue reading Carlton Buys Universal Studios Archive
The BBC’s commercial internet venture, beeb, has appointed David Atter, the former marketing manager behind the Tango ads, to the newly-created post of sales and marketing director. Atter moves from his current position, as director of marketing at Turner Entertainment Networks International, in March.Rupert Miles, director at beeb, said: “David’s marketing experience in the FMCG… Continue reading Beeb Appoints Sales And Marketing Director
Quality Market This round of national newspaper circulation figures, released by the ABC at the end of last week, shows that the Financial Times continues to perform more strongly than the rest of the market – up by 11.6%, or 38,000 copies, year on year. In fact, all of the other national broadsheets lost circulation… Continue reading National Newspaper ABC Round-Up – December 1998
Dennis & Beyond, the customer publishing arm of Dennis Publishing, has set up division which is dedicated to producing customer consumer magazines. The company already publishes customer magazines for CompuServe, travel agent Thomson and estate agents, Winkworth, but claims that this is a burgeoning market sector. In 1998 the market grew by 17% year on… Continue reading Dennis & Beyond Launches Customer Consumer Mags Division
Advertising group Ogilvy & Mather has announced that its CEO and deputy chairman, Tom Bury, has decided to leave the company. Mike Walsh, chairman and European chief executive of the group, is currently in the process of finding a replacement for Bury – there have been no announcements as yet.Bury commented on his departure: “I… Continue reading O&M Chief Executive Departs
Underlying inflation rose last month, overshooting the government target rate for the first time since July. New official figures from the Office for National Statistics show the key underlying inflation rate rose from 2.5% in November to 2.6% in December. Headline inflation, which includes mortgage interest payments, was down from 3.0% to 2.8%.Subscribers can access… Continue reading Inflation Overshoots Government Target
Quality Market This round of national newspaper circulation figures, released by the ABC at the end of last week, shows that the Financial Times continues to perform more strongly than the rest of the market – up by 11.6%, or 38,000 copies, year on year. In fact, all of the other national broadsheets lost circulation… Continue reading National Newspaper ABC Round-Up – December 1998
The Periodical Publishers Association (PPA) has spoken out against plans by Royal Mail to increase magazine mailing rates by 5% from 26 April. The increase in rates could hurt the UK’s magazine subscriptions industry. PPA chief executive, Ian Locks, says that publishers would be disappointed at the rise in rates, especially when set against a… Continue reading Magazine Publishers Attack Mailing Rate Increase
Regional sales house, Amra, has taken over representation of the Scottish & Universal Newspapers (S&UN) titles across its London and Manchester offices as from today. Advertising on the S&UN papers, which are owned by Trinity International, was previously sold through Mediaforce.Since Trinity bought Amra in November last year (see Trinity Acquires Amra) it has been… Continue reading Amra Takes Over Scottish & Universal Sales
Following the faltered takeover discussions between Trinity International and Mirror Group (see Mirror Shareholder Urges That Trinity Talks Resume), a bid from Regional Independent Media (RIM) will today be presented to the Mirror board by the Group’s chairman Sir Victor Blank. Blank held a meeting with RIM chairman Sir Norman Fowler at the weekend at… Continue reading Regional Independent Media Makes £913m Mirror Bid
