ITV has announced the appointment of Andrew Chowns as project director for ITV2, the Network’s digital terrestrial TV channel.In this newly-created post, Chowns will be responsible for bringing ITV2 to the air in late 1998 and will be working in tandem with Brian Barwick, ITV2’s director of programmes.Chowns is currently controller of legal and business… Continue reading ITV Appoints Digital Chief
Mark Dickinson, managing director of web design company Index Finger, has told Newsline that the company has closed. While rumours regarding the company’s demise began circulating earlier this week, Index Finger was denying this as recently as yesterday.The two-year old business, which Dickinson ran along with IT director Robert Hamilton, is the latest new media… Continue reading Index Finger Closes
Edinburgh-based advertising agency, Faulds Advertising, has restructured its operations to create five new divisions. This follows what media director, Sara Maclean, describes as a “hard year”.The five new divisions at Faulds each has its own specific remit. Classic Faulds will offer the traditional creative service; Total Faulds provides a ‘total communications package’ incorporating all aspects… Continue reading Faulds Restructures In The Face Of Tough Competition
BMRB’s new website has been launched as part of the Media Village. The site, at http://www.bmrb.co.uk/, features an A-Z list of research techniques, a ‘who’s who’ list, a news section and job vacancies.The site will be featured in a forthcoming Website of the Week review.The Media Village is at http://www.mediavillage.co.uk/
It has just emerged that Andrew Marr has resigned from his position as editor-in-chief of the Independent newspapers. He will be replaced by Simon Kelner, who is currently editor of the Mail on Sunday‘s Night & Day supplement. Ian Birrell will join as deputy editor from the Daily Mail where he is currently executive editor.… Continue reading Marr Quits As Independent Editor
http://www.sky.co.ukIf there is one overriding factor in Sky’s commercial success since its broadcasting inception in 1989, it is probably the high quotient of sports coverage. With the extraordinary growth in the popularity of football, Sky is cashing in on this formula more than ever before. Fittingly, then, the Sky Online website adheres to the sports-heavy… Continue reading Website Of The Week – Sky Online
The move by Capital Radio to acquire Xfm (see today’s Capital To Buy Xfm) will be dependent on approval from both the Radio Authority and the Office of Fair Trading.Capital plans to buy 90.1% of the London alternative music station for £15.9 million, though under the 1996 Broadcasting Act a company cannot hold two licences… Continue reading Capital’s Xfm Move Dependent On Watchdogs
Commercial radio continued to pull away from the BBC in terms of share of listening for RAJAR Q1 1998: all commercial achieved a share of 50.1% (up from 49.4% last year) while the BBC’s share stood at 47.7% (down from 48.4% last year). Overall, all national commercial stations had a listening share of 10.2% (up… Continue reading Q1 RAJAR – National Stations
Virgin Cinemas is launching a television service which will appear in the foyers of its cinemas. The VCTV service will show an hour-long programme of film trailers, music and ads.Advertising for the first programme has been taken by Snickers and The Gap, which will each receive six 70-second ad breaks during the programme’s broadcast from… Continue reading Virgin Launches Cinema TV
The Newspaper Publishers Association has said that the results of a research report into the National Readership Survey are due in tomorrow. The NPA stressed that the analysis, conducted by consultants, is private and its results may not be published publicly.It is understood that the analysis is concerned with the new test questionnaire for newspaper… Continue reading NPA NRS Analysis Due Tomorrow
