Labour peer Lord Hollick, chairman of United News & Media (UNM), yesterday announced the demerger of his group’s moneybroking and financial information businesses. This leaves UNM with only its media interests (TV, newspapers and exhibitions) to concentrate on.The demerged company, Garban, is a global leader in money and securities broking. As a result of the… Continue reading United News Focuses On Media Interests With Financial Services Sale
The Radio Authority (RA) is advertising new small-scale local FM radio licences for services in the Bristol/North Somerset areas. The licences will cover Bristol, North Somerset, Bath and South Gloucestershire.The Authority anticipates awarding two licences for these areas; each licence will run for a period of eight years from the date the station begins broadcasting.Applicants… Continue reading RA Advertises Bristol/North Somerset Small-Scale Licences
The UK’s only sports-dedicated newspaper, Sport First, is switching to a tabloid format in preparation for the start of the football season.The paper, which publishes every Sunday, says that its readers prefer the tabloid shape to the broadsheet style in which the paper launched in March this year (see Sport First Set For Launch). Pagination… Continue reading Sport First Switches To Tabloid
http://www.the-planet.co.uk/This week’s website is the Telegraph‘s travel page, The Planet. There is a rather splendid schism on this site between the high quality writing by which it is characterised, and the particularly poor design which it features. Once you have gone beyond the deceptively impressive title page, this week featuring an eerie great white shark… Continue reading Website of the Week – The Planet
Agency estimates for June 1998 put total terrestrial TV ad revenue at £182.09 million, a fall year on year for ITV, Channel 4 and GMTV, and a continuing rise for Channel 5.ITV’s total revenue was down 6.5%, C4’s fell 7.0% and C5’s was up 4.4%; GMTV lost 22.6% revenue year on year.Compared to May, June… Continue reading TV Revenue – June 1998
Capital Radio is taking Xfm airtime sales inhouse following its acquisition of the station last week (see Capital’s Xfm Takeover Cleared By DTI). Xfm sales will now be handled by Capital Advertising which is being restructured in order to incorporate the alternative London station.Chris Bennett will remain sales controller and Fiona Dixon will take on… Continue reading Capital Takes Control Of Xfm Sales
A year on from its launch, the glossy BBC Family Life magazine has folded after apparently achieving less than half of its 200,000 target sales.BBC Family Life (see First Issue Review – BBC Family Life) was a monthly publication aimed at parents of four to fourteen year olds, but its pre-launch positive feedback did not… Continue reading Less Than A Year After Launch, BBC Family Life Magazine Folds
Agency estimates for June 1998 put total terrestrial TV ad revenue at £182.09 million, a fall year on year for ITV, Channel 4 and GMTV, and a continuing rise for Channel 5.ITV’s total revenue was down 6.5% to £131.04 million, C4’s fell 7.0% to £40.90 million, and C5’s reached £10.15 million, arise of 4.6%. GMTV… Continue reading TV Revenue – June 1998
Editor of The Guardian‘s Weekend magazine, Deborah Orr, has been appointed as Guardian literary editor. She will chair the judging of the annual Guardian Fiction Award, announced in December.Orr replaces Stephen Moss who will shortly become cricket correspondent for the Sporting Life.Guardian: 0171 239 9696
The Football Association has announced today that its F.A. Cup is to be sponsored by French insurance group AXA for four years. The Cup was previously sponsored by Littlewoods.The £20m association, which begins immediately, means the competition will now be called ‘The AXA Sponsored F.A. Cup’. The deal also gives AXA title sponsorship of this… Continue reading F.A. Gets Four Year AXA Sponsorship
