New Publisher, Cabal Communications, has unveiled the details of its home interest launch, The Real Homes Magazine. The title will launch on 15 October alongside the male lifestyle mag, front (see Cabal Front Up With A New Title), and will be edited by ex-Living etc editor, Sarah Bravo.It will target ABC1 (C2) women, aged between… Continue reading Cabal Reveals Real Homes Details
Fast-expanding regional publisher Southern Newspapers posted a big leap in profits as it unveiled plans to change its name and move to the main stock market.The company is planning to change its name to News Communications & Media, which in turn, will be shortened to NewsCom. This change has to be approved by shareholders at… Continue reading Southern Gets New Name For New Era
Agency estimates for August 1998 put total terrestrial TV (including GMTV) ad revenue at £166.98 million. Year on year, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 show increases in revenue and GMTV continues to lose advertising income.ITV’s total revenue was up by 12.9% to £118.3 million, C4’s rose by 11.2% to £35.0 million and C5’s revenue… Continue reading TV Revenue – August 1998
Roger Lewis, the worldwide president of Decca Records, has been appointed as managing director and programme controller of Classic FM. He will also take a seat on the board of GWR Group, Classic’s owner.Ralph Bernard, GWR chief executive, says: “During his [Lewis’] tenure at both EMI and Decca, he has successfully challenged traditional precepts about… Continue reading Roger Lewis Joins Classic FM As MD
The Dixons Group announced today that it is launching the UK’s first free internet service.Called Freeserve, it is a fully featured internet service that is available free with no registration or subscription fees and no hourly on-line charges. All Freeserve customers pay is their normal charge for a local rate telephone call.Chief executive, John Clare,… Continue reading Dixons Launches Free Internet Service
Only a third of the population would be annoyed if the News At Ten moved to an early evening slot, but over half of the general public feel that Manchester United should not be sold to BSkyB. These are the findings of two new surveys from CIA Medialab.ITV’s contentious plans to move the evening news… Continue reading News At Ten Can Go, But Man Utd Should Not Sell To BSkyB, Find Surveys
The Independent Television Commission (ITC) has announced that the BBC television channels which are distributed across pay-TV networks will be exempt from channel bundling restrictions.In June the Commission decided to discontinue minimum carriage requirements (MCRs) which stated that pay-TV operators must offer a minimum number of available channels (usually 80-100%). This meant that smaller channels,… Continue reading BBC Channel Bundling Exemption
Ian Helsby has rejoined Quadrant, the advertising and marketing group, after leaving Universal McCann, and has taken over from David Moss as managing director. David Moss will continue in a supporting role as non-executive director.Quadrant: 01925 411 217
Digital operators and broadcasters will be permitted to build TV sets that have the software needed to receive their services embedded into the set. This will allow broadcasters to market and sell hardware which is specifically designed to receive their digital services.This ruling is announced by the Independent Television Commission (ITC) this morning and follows… Continue reading Digital Broadcasters Allowed To Build Proprietary TV Sets
Virgin Records UK, www.vmg.co.uk, recorded 5.5 million page impressions, 436,257 users and 742,695 visits from 1-30 June, according to an ABC// electronic audit. This certificate makes Virgin Records the first major record company to have received a web audit.Danny Van Emden commented on the certificate: “This figure shows that we can deliver to a very… Continue reading Virgin Website Scores
