Thursday Newsline interview with Capital Advertising’s group sales director, Fru Hazlett. Also, overnight viewing figures for Channel 4’s screening of Trainspotting.Friday Report from the Channel 5 And Other New Television Prospects Admap Conference. Perfect 10 magazine launches.Also this week: A TV round-up for October will appear on Newsline.
Abbott Mead Vickers (AMV) has announced the acquisition of The O’Connell Partnership for an initial cash payment of £700,000. The marketing company’s Ordinary share capital was bought by Momentum Integrated Communications Ltd., an AMV Group company. O’Connell provides marketing solutions to UK clients including Avon, Kerrygold and Next.AMV will make a series of three additional… Continue reading AMV Acquires O’Connell Partnership
The long-awaited teenage cable channel Rapture launches tomorrow. It will initially be shown on Telewest cable systems only, though the channel hopes more operators will take it up in the future. According to the latest ITC data Telewest is connected to just over half a million homes in areas throughout the country.Rapture will broadcast between… Continue reading Rapture Launches Tomorrow
Amongst the plethora of internet magazines currently available Internet Works is slightly different. It’s subtitled “making the internet work for your business”, and is biased towards the business user.This means you won’t get any of the “hidden camera” type reviews so common to other magazines, but instead articles on web statistics, banner advertising and the… Continue reading First Issue Review – Internet Works
Tim McCabe is to join BBJ Media Services filling the role of head of radio left by the departure of Rupert Garrett (subscribers see Rupert Garrett To Join GWR). McCabe will leave his current post as press and radio buyer at The Network next month.…Stan Park has been appointed as Talk Radio’s commercial director, second… Continue reading Appointment Briefs
Upon writing, we are witnessing the aftermath, but the beginning of this TV week gave us a glimpse of the storm that was to rage through Weatherfield. Unusually, Monday’s episode of the Street proved to be the most popular, attracting 17.71 million viewers. By Friday Jim MacDonald had succumbed to the ‘green eyed monster’ and… Continue reading TV Viewing Summary W/E 09/11/97
http://www.revolution.haynet.com/The media planner’s new media reference guide is what Haymarket’s Revolution aims to be. As a natural extension from the printed title, the Revolution Website aims to provide services which it can’t do, or do as well, in the magazine. The result of this is essentially a number of databases. The site holds information on… Continue reading Website Of The Week – Revolution
Future will be publishing a new monthly customer magazine for Blockbuster, the video rental store, in February next year.The magazine will be edited by Dean Evans in addition to his duties as review editor of Future’s Total Film magazine. It will cover Blockbuster’s main product lines – movies, games and music – and will have… Continue reading Future To Produce Blockbuster Customer Mag
October saw a healthy rise in cinema audiences, with a year on year increase of 29% to a total figure of 13.225 million. Average audiences for the month were up to 2.99 million, one of the highest figures so far this year.Source: CAA/EDISubscribers can access the Cinema database by selecting “Cinema” from the drop-down box… Continue reading October Cinema Admissions Up 29%
