Telewest Communications plc has released its preliminary results for the year ending 31 December 1996. Following increases across the board in cable TV, residential telephony and business telephony, total revenue was up 52% to £290.3 million last year. Net losses reached £250.9 million, but this was in line with expectations.Commenting on the results, Stephen Davidson,… Continue reading Positive Results For Telewest
Two Way TV, a system that allows viewers to take part in their favourite quiz, sports and magazine shows from the comfort of their own homes *Interactive TV Gets Investment Boost, is to launch in the Central region on March 15. Shows being offered are reported to include Family Fortunes, Top Gear and The Great… Continue reading Two Way TV Tunes In
News International has announced that the Sun and the News Of The World are to go online with the launch of a new mass-market Internet provider, LineOne.The company behind the service is Springboard Internet Services, a joint venture between BT and News International, owner of the Sun and the News of the World. Rupert Gavin,… Continue reading Sun And News Of The World To Go Online
Youth cable channel Rapture is set to launch “very soon” according to a company spokesman. The channel, which was first announced in 1995 and due to launch in April last year, has been delayed numerous times.Newsline was told that the delay is not due to financial or carriage problems but is more to do with… Continue reading Rapture To Launch “Very Soon”
The ITC has said that there were a number of inaccuracies in its latest set of cable figures due to a computer error. The data in all Newsline reports has now been amended for the following statistics:ITC Multiple Systems Operator (MSO) Data – January 1997: Telecential; ComtelITC Number Of Households Receiving Each Cable Channel –… Continue reading Amendments To ITC Cable Figures
Both of the Telegraph titles showed good sales growth in February, with the Sunday Telegraph increasing its circulation by a spectacular 25.5% and the Daily Telegraph experiencing a growth of 5.56% to 1.106 million copies sold. Both Independent titles again showed declining circulations, with the Independent On Sunday falling 12.42% to 281,660 and its sister… Continue reading National Press Round-Up – February
Lochbroom FM has become the smallest broadcaster to receive a full commercial radio licence.Lochbroom FM is operated by volunteers and broadcasts from a disused cobbler’s workshop in the Scottish Highlands. Lochbroom FM was the sole applicant for the licence *Radio Licence Application News and has now been granted an 8 year franchise by the Radio… Continue reading Britain’s Smallest Broadcaster Goes Live
Emap Consumer Magazines Ltd has acquired the entire issued share capital of Presse Publishing Ltd, publishers of the UK edition of Top Sante Health & Beauty .Top Sante was launched in the UK in March 1993 and is the leading title in the growing women’s health and beauty market; it has a circulation of 160,489.… Continue reading Emap Swallows Top Sante
Britain’s biggest ever bankrupt, Kevin Maxwell, is reported to have formed a television and media investment company, Telemonde Holdings.Maxwell was acquitted last September of fraud charges associated with the collapse of his late father’s business empire. He has now teamed-up with his brother Ian Maxwell and Anthony Kelly, former head of programme finance at British… Continue reading Maxwell Is Back
Tony Blair, leader of the Labour Party, yesterday met regional publishers and newspaper editors at a Newspaper Society lunch.In a move aimed at emphasising Labour’s view of the importance of the regional press, Mr Blair said: “We see communicating with the regional press as a very big part of the campaign indeed. We get a… Continue reading Blair Meets Regional Newspaper Publishers
