EMAP Online has launched Aloud.com (http://www.aloud.com), an online entertainment booking service.Using Aloud.com’s secure transaction facility, Internet users are able to find and buy online tickets for a range of rock, pop, festival, ice shows and other live events UK-wide.“This is the latest move in our mission to make the Internet more useful to more people… Continue reading EMAP Launches Online Booking Service
Just about the biggest TV Industry event of the year was of course the launch of Channel 5. It was always going to be controversial and the media certainly piled on the pressure in the build up to the fifth button on our remote controls coming alive. Even the Spice Girls were called in as… Continue reading TV Industry Round-Up 1997
Troubled advertising agency, GGT Group, is in talks with US media giant Omnicom which may see Omnicom performing a £150 million takeover.The loss of the £80 million Procter & Gamble account for GGT’s US arm Wells BDDP (subscribers see GGT Rocked By P&G Loss), has sent the Group’s share price tumbling and has prompted the… Continue reading GGT In Talks With Omnicom
1997 saw another year of growth in the number of homes able to receive a cable service and by the 1st October broadband cable services had become available to over 10 million homes in the UK according to ITC figures. Over 2.2 million broadband homes now receive a cable TV service, which gives it a… Continue reading Cable And Satellite Industry Round-Up 1997
Beach Magazines, a publishing company set up by ex-Attic Futura boss Chris Taggart, will be launching Junior on February 24.The bi-monthly title will be aimed at ABC1 parents with children under the age of six who want to read about the ‘fun’ aspects of parenthood. It will have a cover-price of £2.80.Beach Magazines: 0171 630… Continue reading New Parenting Title To Launch
Capital Radio’s website, http://www.capitalfm.co.uk, will be launching a new advertising service next month whereby users will be able to listen to ads currently running on the station.Further information about products will also be made available on the site. The ‘Ads on Air’ service is free to users and will be supported by on-air trailers and… Continue reading Capital’s Website To Launch Ad Service
BBC Magazines will be launching a home interest title called BBC Good Homes in the Spring, the publisher today confirmed. While other details are being kept under wraps, the magazine’s launch is expected to coincide with the BBC Good Homes Exhibition in late April.BBC Magazines: 0181 576 3000
A new men’s lifestyle/motoring magazine entitled Petrolhead will be launching on 13 February. It will be published by a new company called Mediahead.The title, which will be a cross between Loaded and Top Gear, will have around 200 pages and a cover-price of £2.95.Petrolhead: 0181 200 6543
Channel 4’s rescreening of the classic 1981 adaptation of Brideshead Revisited is to be sponsored by Douwe Egberts. The deal, worth £500,000, will see the association running for the six weeks of double-length episodes. The series starts on Saturday 24 January.Douwe Egberts is to use the same credits seen on Channel 4’s Frasier.Channel 4: 0171… Continue reading C4’s Brideshead Revisited Receives Sponsor
Speculation is currently rife that Microsoft is looking to take over BT. Though BT has refused to comment on the matter its shares rose 26p to close at 583p and at 10:23 this morning the stock had risen a further 3p.Other US companies are also said to be eying Britain’s seventh largest company, including AT&T… Continue reading BT Shares Soar On Microsoft Rumour
