It’s the last big push of the holiday season from all sides this week. Coronation Street holding back their best plot line from Christmas, and choosing this week to put poor old Deirdre through the emotional minefields again. It’s four episodes this week hold the top four places in the charts, watched by an average… Continue reading TV Viewing Summary W/E 04/01/98
GWR Group has announced the launch of a new Group Digital Division. The outfit, to be headed by GWR technical director Quentin Howard, will form a consortium to bid for the national Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) licence when it is advertised in the Spring.GWR chief executive Ralph Bernard said: “GWR is now actively engaged in… Continue reading GWR Launches Digital Group
Kelvin MacKenzie, managing director of L!ve TV, will become deputy chief executive and group managing director of the Mirror Group.He will take on an expanded role following the retirement of Charles Wilson, the current managing director. It will also give him operational control over the group’s national newspapers as well as it’s television interests.The news… Continue reading MacKenzie Given Top Job At Mirror
Rumours are currently abound that Pearson New Entertainment is planning to sell off its Future Publishing division. Although Pearson refused to provide any comment to Newsline, a number of speculative reports claim that Pearson have been in discussion with a number of potential buyers.The market position of Future’s publications may provide clue as to just… Continue reading Possibilities For Future Publishing
Around three-quarters of the British public (73%) do not want the UK to adopt Europe’s liberal policy for broadcasting pornographic satellite and cable channels, according to CIA MediaLab’s latest Sensor survey.Women feel stronger than men about stopping European porn channels from reaching the UK, with 85% against European rules on broadcasting pornographic TV, compared to… Continue reading Public Do Not Want Porn Channels
Kiss TV, the youth music programme on Granada Sky Broadcasting, will cease broadcasting at the end of the month. This is to allow Emap, which owns the strand, to concentrate on the launch of Magic, a cable and satellite music channel (subscribers see Box To Launch Sister Channel).Kiss TV, which currently broadcasts for one hour… Continue reading EMAP Closes Kiss TV
Capital Radio’s plans for expansion suffered a setback yesterday when Margaret Beckett, President of the Board of Trade, published the Monopolies and Mergers report into its failed attempt to buy Virgin Radio (subscribers see Evans Snatches Virgin From Capital).The MMC said that Capital would not have been allowed to take over Virgin unless it sold… Continue reading MMC Report Could Curtail Capital’s Expansion Plans
British sport could face a ban on alcohol sponsorship if the French government is successful in pushing for a Europe-wide extension of its own anti-alcohol advertising laws.According to today’s Guardian, French officials are pressing the European Commission to make alcohol sponsorship and advertising illegal. French laws have already caused a row this year with Budweiser,… Continue reading Alcohol Sponsorship Ban Threatened
The ITC has approved changes to the licence requirements for HTV Wales by increasing the amount of regional, sport, current affairs and news programming.The total broadcast requirement for regional programmes in Wales has increased by almost an hour, from 10 hours 45 minutes per week to 11 hours 43 minutes.The requirement for news programmes increases… Continue reading HTV Wales To Receive More Regional Programming
7-Up will be sponsoring ITV’s forthcoming Ice Warriors show, which will begin broadcasting in Saturday peaktime on 24 January. The deal, which is rumoured to be worth around £500,000, was negotiated by BMP Optimum on behalf of PepsiCo and is due to run for a year.…Classic FM has signed a deal with Renault which will… Continue reading Sponsorship News
