John Willis has joined the shareholder board of Channel 5 Broadcasting, replacing Clive Hollick as the United News & Media representative. Willis was formerly director of programmes at Channel 4 and has recently been appointed as managing director of United Film & TV Productions. He quit the post at Channel 4 in September last year… Continue reading Channel 5 Gets New Board Member
Katz has sub-contracted its TV sales operation to Laser due to its wish to concentrate on radio and international business (subscribers see Katz Restructures Away From TV) .Laser Satellite & Cable will now take on the national advertising and sponsorship sales for Channel One , the Performance Channel and Asianet , as well as the… Continue reading Laser Takes On Katz TV Business
Following the sale of a number of titles to CMP Media (subscribers see Emap Computing Sells Titles), Emap Computing is to redistribute its remaining computing and telecoms titles throughout a number of Emap divisions before Emap Computing closes in April.It is believed that a new Emap company will be set-up in order to take on… Continue reading Emap Reorganises Its Computing Titles
Channel 5 has signed a major multi-year movie deal with Buena Vista International.Following earlier deals with Fox and Warner Bros, the new partnership will secure key releases from Walt Disney, Touchstone and Hollywood Pictures from 1996, 1997 and 1998.Films which will see their terrestrial premieres on 5 will include Con-Air, The Rock and Phenomenon.The deal… Continue reading C5 Signs New Movie Deal
The long-planned national sports daily newspaper, Sport First, has taken a step closer to launch with the appointment of David Emery as its editor. Emery will leave his post at the Press Association, where he is editor of its page production unit, on 16 January. He also regularly writes sports features for the Mail On… Continue reading Sport First Appoints Editor
The Sunday Telegraph has increased its price by 10p taking it to 90p. This began at the start of the year. This Saturday the Daily Telegraph is also to launch an augmented portfolio of supplements with the main newspaper (subscribers see Saturday Telegraph To Launch New Look).Telegraph Group: 0171 538 5000
Emap Elan will be distributing mini-copies of its new magazine Red to various stores and newsagents as part of a £2 million promotional campaign for the title which launches on January 15.Kathryn Brown, editor of Red, says that the new glossy is for ‘modern women’ who have responsibilities but are are “still interested in style,… Continue reading Emap Launches ‘Red’ Sampler
The ITC today announced that Mr Vanni Treves has been appointed as the new chairman of Channel 4. He takes up the position today in succession to Sir Michael Bishop.Treves is a senior partner of City law firm Macfarlanes and is chairman of several public companies including the BBA group, McKechnie plc and the Dennis… Continue reading ITC Appoints C4 Chairman
The Sunday Telegraph again put in a strong performance with a July-December year on year increase of 14% to take its sales to 887,204 while the FT grew by an impressive 10.7% to 328,793 copies sold. Among the titles whose circulation fell, the People dropped 7.5% and the Sunday Mirror slipped 6.6%. The Daily Star… Continue reading National Newspaper ABC Summary – December
Quality Market The quality market performed steadily in July-December, with an increase of almost 3% to 5.841 million sales. Only two titles showed drops in sales while most of the others reported modest increases.The Sunday Telegraph‘s July-December circulation showed the largest year on year increase of all the nationals, with a rise of 14% to… Continue reading National Press Round-Up – December
