United News & Media (UNM) has been granted an injunction to take the future British Digital Broadcasting (BDB) chief executive, Stephen Grabiner to court.UNM has been seeking to prevent Grabiner from working until his contract at UNM formally expires. He left the company for BDB at the beginning of the year.The injunction was granted at… Continue reading UNM To Take Grabiner To Court
The Independent Radio Group (IRG) has won a bid for a local commercial radio licence based in the Fife area. The station, Kingdom FM Radio, will play a mix of music from the 1960s to the 1990s with local news and content.The IRG holds a 20% stake in Kingdom FM.Radio Authority: 0171 430 2724
HTV West is unveiling a new logo today as part of its celebration of 30 years in broadcasting. The birthday celebrations are to include a retrospective look on the life of HTV television, which started broadcasting in 1958.In June 1997 HTV became part of United News & Media (UNM); UNM bought the regional broadcaster for… Continue reading New Logo To Mark HTV’s 30th Birthday
The Independent Television Commission’s (ITC) February 1998 Television Advertising Complaints bulletin has reported that the TV launch campaign by Computeract!ve magazine received complaints from 243 viewers.The ad showed a dog copulating with a man’s leg, apparently to allude to the ‘friendly’ nature of the magazine. Complainants felt that this was inappropriate imagery for television advertising,… Continue reading Computeractive Launch Ads Receive Over 200 Complaints
A new personal web organiser has launched to compliment search engines such as Yahoo! and AltaVista. By catergorising websites found it removes the need to memorise often complicated homepage addresses. The system, called My Taxi, has been developed to remove the need to waste time trying to get all the dots and slashes in the… Continue reading Travel The World Wide Web In Your Own Taxi
Channel 4 has launched its new Spring and Summer schedule with a line-up of themed nights and dedicated seasons.All things Scouse are to be covered in the channel’s ‘A Night On The Mersey’ which will feature a curtain-raiser to the latest Brookside five-nighter in which a gas explosion threatens more lives. This starts on Easter… Continue reading C4 Schedules More Themed Nights For Spring/Summer
The Mirror Group has said that it will be closing its Sporting Life title on 12 May and incorporating it into the Racing Post . It is expected, however, that the title will reappear some time in the Autumn as a general sports daily. Over 100 staff have been made redundant as part of the… Continue reading Sporting Life To Close
News Group Newspapers, the division of News International which publishes The Sun and the News Of The World, has announced the creation of the post of display sales controller in its sales department. The post is to be filled by Mike Gordon, previously advertising manager for The Sun. Gordon will have responsibility for News Group… Continue reading News Group Restructures Sales Team
Twix will be covermounting a branded music CD on the front cover of TV Hits in a sponsorship deal worth in excess of £100,000.The deal, negotiated by the Braben Company, will also include a programme of branded promotion and sponsored editorial over a number of issues of the title. The CD will feature seventeen tracks… Continue reading Twix To Sponsor TV Hits
Future Publishing picked up the largest collection of accolades at the 1998 Association of Circulation Executives Awards, which were held last week at the Hilton on Park Lane, London.The publisher’s Computer Arts won the award for excellence and endeavour in the field of circulation for a smaller magazine (sales under 50,000) while Gamesmaster won the… Continue reading Future Wins Circulation Awards
