United News & Media has confirmed that it has entered into a conditional agreement to join NTL’s Digital Television Network project.UNM will invest up to £120m in 30% of DTN if the terrestrial digital TV bid is accepted by the ITC over the rival British Digital Broadcasting consortium. Roger Loughton, chief of UNM’s Broadcasting and… Continue reading UNM Joins Digital Bid
Charles Garside has left The European newspaper as its editor. Andrew Neil will now take over as editor in chief of the title. There are also rumours that the newspaper is considering becoming a magazine, something which Garside was apparently opposed to. This development could not be confirmed however by The European.The European: 0171 418… Continue reading Changes At The European
Uncut is the latest title from IPC and is a music and movies magazine. The title has succeeded in doing something many magazines aspire to do; it looks more like a stylish coffee table book than a monthly magazine and is a modern cultural publication to be seen with.Editor Allan Jones has brought to UNCUT… Continue reading First Issue Review – UNCUT
IPC has announced that it will be merging the weekly soccer magazine 90 Minutes with its sister title Shoot , from the issues cover-dated May 17.Publishing director Andy McDuff said: “The huge increase in the popularity and media coverage of the game has changed the whole market over the last two years, and as others… Continue reading IPC Merges Soccer Titles
Agency estimates put terrestrial TV revenue for March at £192.070m, which is an increase of 5.83% on the previous year. Of this, ITV brought in £148.070m and Channel 4 £44m. Impacts for March all showed year on year falls in impacts, with Housewives/Children dropping by 12.9% to 5,504. Women showed the next biggest fall with… Continue reading TV Round-Up – March
The Radio Authority is inviting comments from interested parties on the public interest considerations which apply in regards to First Oxfordshire Radio Company Ltd’s proposed acquisition of Mix 96 .First Oxfordshire Radio owns Fox FM which broadcasts in Oxford and Banbury. Mix 96, also broadcasts on FM, is currently owned by Bucks Broadcasting Ltd and… Continue reading Radio Mix Up
European digital television service providers will share an $11 billion market by 2002 according to a new report from strategic business analysts Datamonitor. This coincides with news of BSkyB’s joint digital venture with BT (see yesterday’s Newsline).The report suggests that there will be almost 20 million digital TV households in Europe by 2002, compared with… Continue reading Euro Digital TV Set To Become Billion Dollar Industry
Last night’s Guardian Media debate put the big wigs at Channel 5 on the spot. A panel of high profile media experts slowly and painfully took the new channel apart. But, David Elstein, chief executive of 5 and Dawn Airey, director of programmes, fought their corner well and emerged from the verbal battle smiling and… Continue reading 5 Under Fire
