First Press and Zone, two British publishing companies, are to be responsible for the publishing of several new football titles.Zone are preparing to re-launch the official Chelsea Magazine on 7 August, which will be a monthly publication costing £2.50. It will be edited by Dan Davis, originally editor of IPC’s Goal.In Scotland, First Press launched… Continue reading More Football Club Magazines To Launch
Adam Porter, managing editor at Loaded , is set to leave to become part of the GQ team as a freelance writer. Although Conde Nast, GQ‘s publisher, cannot confirm a starting date, he will be a contributing editor working alongside James Brown, who was his old editor at Loaded (see Loaded Editor Quits For Rival).Porter… Continue reading Loaded Managing Editor Defects To GQ
The sale of Leeds agency Poulter to its management has finally been completed this week after months of negotiations. In December last year Graham Poulter said the management buyout was being ‘actively discussed’ and that he expected completion in February this year.Graham Poulter has now relinquished control over the agency he founded 29 years ago,… Continue reading Poulter Agency Buyout Finally Complete
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
It is understood that CLT-Ufa’s 100% stake in RTL Country 1035 may be sold to European satellite radio station, Country Music Radio (CMR). The station is to expected to fetch around £2 million.CLT-Ufa put stakes in all its UK Radio stations up for sale earlier this year (see CLT To Examine Bids For Its UK… Continue reading Country Music Radio May Buy RTL Country 1035
British Digital Broadcasting (BDB) has secured a deal to broadcast music channel MTV on its digital terrestrial television (DTT) service, which it is due to launch in the last quarter of this year.BSkyB, however, has negotiated an arrangement which prevents BDB broadcasting MTV until July next year, giving Sky exclusive rights at the time of… Continue reading Digital Pay TV Groups Agree To Share MTV Broadcast
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
