30 Beautiful Homes is dubbed “The magazine you’ve always wanted.” Naturally, this depends on what it is you’ve always wanted to do. On the one hand, you may wish to spend, if you have it, vast amounts of money converting and creating one of these ‘beautiful homes’ and filling it with all manner of antique… Continue reading Pilot Issue Review – 30 Beautiful Homes
Interim pre-tax profits rose 12% year on year to £43.7m for the Mirror Group. Growth in advertising revenue assisted this, with Classified ads being particularly strong with a 24% increase. Losses at L!ve TV fell and it is expected that The Independent will enter into profit next year.Mirror Group: 0171 293 3000
According to unofficial live data the Chelsea v Bratislava football match on Channel 5 last night was viewed by an average of 2.4 million Individuals, which is a TVR of 4.5. The audience peaked at 3.6 million. The other C5 game shown earlier in the week, between Slavonika and Arsenal, attracted an average individuals audience… Continue reading Chelsea Game Attracts 2.4m For C5
The Alliance & Leicester (A&L) will launch a new Website on 24 September in order to meet the needs of its more technologically ‘switched-on’ customer base. The company acknowledges the impact the Internet will have on the personal financial sector.To make banking and finance more fun visitors can search the site for the invisible A&L… Continue reading Alliance & Leicester Launch Internet ‘Money
Spider’
BBC Family Life, which will launch on 23 October, is intended to fill what publishing director Gillian Laskier views as a gap in the market. It is aimed to appeal to ABC1 women who have primary school age children who need a magazine which has relevance to their lives. It will centre on family-related topics… Continue reading BBC Magazines Launch BBC Family Life
The Sci-Fi Channel will be bringing its advertising sales business in-house from BSkyB with effect from the beginning of next year. As part of the move, the channel will be bolstering its sales and support staff, headed by Mark Bradford.Since its launch in 1995 BSkyB has been representing a portion of UK ad sales for… Continue reading Sci-Fi Channel Pulls Sales In-House
Conde Nast Traveller reminds me of IPC’s Eat Soup in a number of ways. It attempts to be both informative and entertaining, so becoming a generalised consumer title covering a niche area; it flatters readers into thinking they are or could be the bone fide item (ie, a chef or restaurant critic in Eat Soup‘s… Continue reading First Issue Review – Conde Nast Traveller
Following the purchase of the dance stations Kiss 102 in Manchester and Kiss 105 in Yorkshire, Chrysalis Radio is to rename the stations Galaxy 102 and Galaxy 105 respectively. The stations’ previous owners, Faze FM Radio Ltd, had entered an agreement with EMAP Radio in order to franchise the Kiss brand; Chrysalis, however, believe that… Continue reading Radio Briefs
