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Well, we’ve made it through the annual onslaught of Christmas specials, and despite the noticeable absence of Only Fools & Horses on Terrestrial TV, things weren’t too bad. On the comedy front, the BBC wheeled out all their other traditional Christmas crackers. Leading the way, One Foot In The Grave attracted 15.76 million, another classic… Continue reading TV Viewing Summary W/E 28/12/97

Live TV today announced that it has taken back the national sales for the channel as part of the launch of the Cable Advertising Sales Company later this month.The cable-only channel’s national airtime was previously sold by Laser Satellite and Cable but Live now believes it sells enough airtime to go it alone. CASC will… Continue reading Live TV Launches Sales House

Sky High charts the emergence and subsequent progress of arguably the UK’s most radical and revolutionary broadcaster, BSkyB. From losses of £14 million a week in 1990 to pre-tax profits of £300 million in 1997 (£10 a second), Horsman reveals an intriguing “cast of characters” and delves into the intricate wheeling and dealing involved in… Continue reading Book Review – Mathew Horsman’s Sky High

Internet Business Magazine has announced a covermount promotion which will see it giving away the 1998 Internet Business Yearbook with issue 13 of the magazine, dated February 1998. The 200-page guide to putting businesses on the Net has not previously been available to members of the public.The title is also giving away the 4-part Global… Continue reading Internet Business Cover Promotion

British Digital Broadcasting (BDB), the digital television collaboration between Carlton and Granada, has appointed Amstrad executive Anthony Sethill to a position of “marketing and general management responsibilities.” Sethill is currently an executive director of Amstrad and managing director of Amstrad Consumer Electronics.His appointment is part of an enormous promotions campaign with which the company will… Continue reading Appointment Briefs

The Observer is to launch a new section, Work, covering current attitudes to the workplace by investigating both the professional and social aspects of the world of work.Work is to be a pull-out supplement to the Business section of the Sunday newspaper and will feature senior appointments as well as editorial. The appointments will be… Continue reading Observer Starts The Year With Work

The Independent Television Commission has revoked the Local Delivery Licence granted for Shrewsbury at the request of the licensee, Shropshire Cable and Telecoms Limited.The licence was granted by the ITC in November 1995. It will be readvertised if expressions of interest are made to the Commission by potential applicants.Shropshire Cable, a subsidiary of the US… Continue reading ITC Revokes Cable Licence

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. This is almost 70,000 more copies than the Independent which fell 1.8% to 260,223.Among the titles whose circulation fell,… Continue reading National Newspaper ABC Summary – December

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