Following the hive of activity of the last couple of days as IPC Magazines was bought by venture capitalists Cinven and announced the restructuring of its management teams, chief executive Mike Matthew has confirmed his ‘vision’ for the magazine group to take it into 2000.The UK’s largest publisher of consumer magazines is planning to add… Continue reading IPC Envisages 100 Titles BY 2000
The Saturday edition of the Daily Telegraph will this weekend reveal its new look.Three new stand-alone sections will appear: Sport, Money-Go-Round and Travel will join the Weekend, Motoring, Arts & Books, TV and Radio and Young Telegraph supplements.Subscribers can access the Press Planner database by selecting “Press” from the drop-down box at the top of… Continue reading Saturday Telegraph To Launch New Look
News International has increased the cover-price of the Times‘ Monday edition from 10p to 20p.Since the cut-price copy was introduced in June 1996 the paper’s circulation has increased from 753,784 to 802,147. The financial cost of this strategy has been rumoured to be around £30 million per year.
http://www.a2btravel.com/While Condé Nast’s Traveller site (http://www.cntraveller.co.uk/) provides a wealth of editorial information, from travel articles and travellers’ personal diaries to city histories and world news stories, Emap Online’s a2b Travel is the logistical key to getting to these far-flung, exotic locations (or, if you prefer, a B&B trip to Bridlington).The basis of a2b Travel is… Continue reading Website Of The Week – a2b Travel
The cable firm consortium On Demand Management, now going under the market name of Front Row, is set to launch the cable industry’s first pay-per-view movie service next month. Having just signed a third film studio deal with Buena Vista International Television today, the group is compiling material to offer a film service which it… Continue reading Cable Consortium Seals Buena Vista Deal
The Confederation of the Food and Drink Industries of the EU has decided voluntarily to label foods containing genetically modified soyabeans or maize, in the absence of an agreement between EU Member States to introduce common labelling rules. The Confederation said it was alarmed at the failure of the EU to agree common rules and… Continue reading EU: Genetically Modified Crops
The publishing, phonographic and telecoms industries have signalled their strong opposition to the draft Directive on Copyright, now adopted by the European Commission. They argue that its provisions will provide insufficient protection for rights holders against the making of unauthorised copies and that the liability for infringements should not be placed exclusively on the shoulders… Continue reading EU: Copyright Directive Under Fire
The Radio Advertising Bureau has started a new series of publications entitled RAB LAB. The first in the series is The Grammar of Radio Advertising and is a ‘snapshot’ analysis of contemporary British radio advertising.The report, based in analysis of a random selection of over 300 radio commercials, seeks to explore how radio advertising “expresses… Continue reading RAB Launches Publication Series
Cinema admissions rose 30% in November, with average weekly admissions for the month standing at 2.26 million. Total admissions was 9.698 million, up from 7.443 million the previous year.Subscribers can access the Cinema database by selecting “Cinema” from the drop-down box at the top of this page.
The BBC and ITV have agreed a schedule for coverage of matches in the 1998 World Cup and will not be going head-to-head over England’s games.Under the deal, BBC viewers will be able to see live coverage of four of the six first round matches featuring England and Scotland while ITV will cover the other… Continue reading BBC And ITV Announce World Cup Scheduling
