Monday A review of the Guardian‘s new Saturday package, which includes a travel and sports section, will appear on Newsline today.WPP release interim financial results.Tuesday Web Round-Up will be available on Newsline, as will a TV Round-Up for the month of March.Thursday Q1 RAJAR figures are released and will be available, after 2pm, in the… Continue reading The Week Ahead
Saturday saw the launch of a new package for the Guardian , with two new supplements appearing alongside a revamped Week section.Following the lead of Saturday’s Daily Telegraph, the paper now has dedicated travel and sports sections and The Week becomes Saturday. As well as changing its name, The Week now becomes more focused, benefitting… Continue reading Review: The Saturday Guardian
Rumours are currently rife that Rosie Boycott, co-editor of the Independent titles along with Andrew Marr, will be announcing her resignation today. It is thought that the dual-editorship situation created tension at the newspapers.In a further twist it is expected that Boycott will join the Express to replace Richard Addis as editor, who is rumoured… Continue reading Question Mark Over Indy Editor
Carlton Communications has paid BSkyB a significant proportion of the money it owed Sky following the satellite broadcaster’s departure from the British Digital Broadcasting consortium, of which Carlton is a member (subscribers see BSkyB Leaves The Alliance). When Sky was forced to leave the digital group by the ITC, it was agreed that the other… Continue reading Carlton Pays Up To BSkyB
The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has requested an extra 15 days to consider its examination of the proposed £475 million takeover of More Group by French outdoor company, Decaux (subscribers see OFT To Give Recommendations On Decaux/More Merger).The OFT says that too much should not be read into this delay, and that it is… Continue reading OFT To Consider Decaux/More Merger Further
Following long-running pressure from the PPA (subscribers see PPA Calls For Extension Of Masthead Programming), the ITC has ruled to allow the use of masthead programming on terrestrial television channels. Currently, masthead programmes (programmes which feature the brand and editorial style of an existing publication) are only allowed on cable and satellite.The ITC says that… Continue reading ITC Extends Masthead Programming To Terrestrial
The Easter Weekend this year brought us the departure of Kaff Mitchell of the Caff. Eastenders pushed itself to four episodes, including a one hour special on Good Friday. Kaff’s final bow has to be one of the most drawn out departures in recent soap history; even Hilda Ogden seemed to slip silently into the… Continue reading TV Viewing Summary W/E 12/04/98
http://www.independent.co.uk/Although The Independent‘s website receives fewer visitors than any of the other national newspaper’s online versions (according to their own statement), it is probably the best-designed and clearest of all those sites on offer on the Net at the moment (much like the printed daily paper holds a smaller readership than the other broadsheets but,… Continue reading Website Of The Week – The Independent
Stephen Grabiner, the outgoing United News & Media chairman, has been released by the media group to begin working at British Digital Broadcasting as chief executive.It has emerged that legal wrangles (subscribers see UNM To Take Grabiner To Court) over Grabiner’s move have now been dropped. As part of the reconciliation deal BDB and UNM… Continue reading United Link-Up With BDB In Grabiner Deal
Right, I’m not going to pull any punches here. Future’s new lifestyle/car/motorbike magazine Redline is for sad boy-racers who can’t get girlfriends and spend all of their money and affection on lumps of metal which are only supposed to get them from A to B. They also probably still listen to Iron Maiden and wear… Continue reading First Issue Review – Redline
