Electronic publishers and creative designers On Demand Information (ODI) suspended trading in its shares on Monday 2 February as the group was unable to publish its annual financial results due to discussions with potential buyers.ODI announced on 29 August 1997 that its was seeking offers for the group and had intended to sell the company… Continue reading On Demand Information Suspends Shares Awaiting Sale
A questionnaire distributed by the Radio Advertising Bureau (RAB) to a number of marketing directors and advertisers has found that they wish to increase spend on commercial radio in 1998.63% of the delegates at the Marketing Forum ’97 said they planned to increase their spend on radio advertising.The average annual marketing budget of these delegates… Continue reading Advertisers To Spend More On Commercial Radio In 1998
Future Publishing’s Sports & Entertainment Division has created an agency sales team to sell all its consumer magazines which include Total Film and Total Football. Future says that any new magazine launches aimed at young males will also be catered for by the sales team.Future has recruited three advertisement managers for the team which will… Continue reading New Agency Ad Sales Team At Future
Carlton Communications, in response to the writ which is being issued against it by BSkyB (see today’s BSkyB Confirms June Launch For Digital item), has said that it has not paid the satellite broadcaster the amount owed because BSkyB has not yet secured the Premier League football rights for the British Digital Broadcasting consortium.A Carlton… Continue reading Carlton Communications Waiting For Premier League Rights
PA NewsCentre, the news and information website from the Press Association, has obtained its first ABC //electronic certificate.The certificate shows that the site, http://www.pa.press.net/, recorded 4.684 million page impressions for the audit period 31 July to 30 August 1997. This makes PA NewsCentre the third busiest of UK sites certified so far, behind the Times… Continue reading PA NewsCentre Gets First Web Audit
BSkyB today announced that it expects its digital satellite service to launch in June of this year and said that it will serve a writ on Carlton for the £30 million it says the ITV company owes it.The satellite broadcaster says that it is owed £60m following its withdrawal from the British Digital Broadcasting consortium,… Continue reading BSkyB Confirms June Launch For Digital
The UK national newspaper market suffered drops in both sales and readership during 1997, despite a short-lived resurgence during September as the public sought information in the aftermath of the death of Princess Diana.January to December 1997 ABC figures for all the nationals reveal that there was a 1.4% year on year drop in sales… Continue reading National Press Market Round-Up – 1997
MediaTel today launches a new service in partnership with the Advertising Association.EAB (European Advertising Briefing) is an extensive archive of international (mainly European) advertising legislation and news updated regularly by the AA, available via MediaTel, and fully searchable by keyword. The archive already contains news stories going back over a year.We are making this available… Continue reading MediaTel Launches European News Briefing With AA
Three new PC games magazines are set to enter the consumer computer titles market, two of which are geared towards providing cheats and hints for computer games.Rapide Publishing, publishers of Ultimate PC , launched PC Strategies on 30 January and are preparing for the launch of PC Force on 27 February.PC Strategies is a guide… Continue reading Three PC Magazines Set To Launch
ITV’s coverage of this year’s Brit Awards is to be sponsored by Britannia Music Club for the fifth year running. The ceremony takes place at London Arena at 8pm Tuesday 10 February; both the event and the broadcast will be endorsed by Britannia.The deal was negotiated by Andy Thompson at Carlton and John Nelligan, chairman… Continue reading Britannia To Sponsor Brit Awards 1998
