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
The ABC has announced a major revision of its rules for the national newspaper industry in an attempt to improve the transparency of data supplied.Extensive discussions between the ABC, national newspaper publishers and media buyers has resulted in the revised set of rules which commences on 30 March 1998, for the April 1998 ABC audit… Continue reading ABC Revises National Newspaper Rules
The ITC has received two applications for the local delivery franchise for North Wales and South Cheshire (subscribers see ITC Invites Applications For Delivery Channels). By the deadline of 12 January 1998 the ITC had received applications from Cable and Wireless Communications and Metro Communications Ltd.C&W proposes to offer service to 275,000 homes in North… Continue reading Applications For North Wales Delivery Franchise
Nascent terrestrial broadcaster, Channel 5, has secured a sports coup by winning the rights to three of England’s qualifying games for the Euro 2000 finals. The games, which are all away, will come from Poland, Bulgaria and Luxembourg.The channel also has the rights to broadcast Scotland’s matches in the Czech Republic, Lithuania, Bosnia-Herzogovina, Estonia and… Continue reading C5 Shoots And Scores For Euro 2000
http://www.club18-30.co.ukI cannot deny that from a Club 18-30 website I expected plenty of oiled bodies, burgeoning cleavage and loads of wanton nymphs. What you actually get, however, is loads whizzing, full-motion graphics and lots of clever special effects. In fact so many moving words and flashing colours that one could be forgiven for saying, too… Continue reading Website Of The Week – Club 18-30
Advertising group GGT was forced to suspend its shares for twelve hours yesterday and bring forward its half-year results after Proctor & Gamble said it would be moving its business away from Wells BDDP, the New York agency which it bought as part of the BDDP takeover last year.The loss of the P&G account will… Continue reading GGT Rocked By P&G Loss
London News Radio (LNR) is supporting its bid for a North East News Radio licence (subscribers see London News Radio Looks North-East) with a specially designed website at http://www.nenr.co.uk.The site is to allow interested parties to see the content of the application and it details the background to the bid, the proposed programme format and… Continue reading LNR Supports North-East Bid With Website
Bridget Rowe, the Sunday Mirror ‘s editor, has quit the newspaper after the appointment of Kelvin MacKenzie as the Mirror Group’s managing director (subscribers see MacKenzie Given Top Job At Mirror). MacKenzie has apparently ordered an overhaul of the Mirror titles which will see more news and less feature-type articles.Brendan Parsons, editor of the People,… Continue reading Sunday Mirror Editor Quits
Total cinema admissions for December grew 23% year on year to 12.131 million, according to the latest figures from CAA/EDI. Average weekly admissions grew from 2.23 million to 2.74 million.Subscribers can access the Cinema database by selecting “Cinema” from the drop-down box at the top of this page.
