Following on from ITV’s decision to drop coverage of the event, the BBC has announced that it is to start broadcasting the Heineken European Rugby Cup. Coverage will be split between BBC1 who will show the live matches on Grandstand and BBC2 who will show highlights of the weekend’s matches as part of Rugby Special.Coverage… Continue reading BBC To Televise European Rugby Cup
Which? magazine has launched a Website on the Internet. It is a subscription-based service, with users paying £7.75 per month for full access to the site which contains all the reports from the range of Which? magazines, including Gardening Which?, Holiday Which? and Health Which?, as well as a range of Which? books. There is… Continue reading Which? Magazine Goes Online
According to Campaign Bartle Bogle Hegarty, GGT and DMB&B all saw their billings drop in the latest quarterly Register-MEAL figures.BBH lost £26 million year-on-year to record £93m, GGT dropped £12m to £59m and DMB&B fell £16m to £174m. M&C Saatchi’s first full year figures show that the agency reached its highest position yet at thirteenth… Continue reading Agency Billings Fall
A new magazine is rumoured to be launching on Monday dedicated to mobile phone users and published by Noble House Publishing. Mobile Choice is said to be a 100-page monthly title, costing £1.95 with a print-run of 40,000.Noble House Publishing: 0171 225 2656
Two media consortia are believed to be planning new cable and satellite music channels for the near future.Granada is reported to be in discussion with a number of record companies regarding the launch of an MTV-style channel and BSkyB and Virgin are in talks over a join-venture of the same nature. The proposals are thought… Continue reading Two New Music Channels Set To Launch
Midland Independent Newspapers will be launching an annual magazine aimed at people who have just passed their driving test. Drive On will be free and distributed to driving centres, giving it a circulation of over one million. It will feature articles on safety, drink-driving and celebrity interviews. Advertisers include magazines such as Auto Express as… Continue reading MIN Launches Drivers’ Magazine
The Advertising Association is holding a seminar in Cardiff to help small businesses with their advertising decisions. It will take place on Thursday 21 November at the Quality Friendly Hotel.Subjects covered will include: setting advertising objectives; communication choices; the role of ad agencies; an introduction to local media; and a local case study. Speakers will… Continue reading Ad Seminar For Small Businesses
UK Gold has announced that it is to start showing the popular BBC1/Thames television comedy series Men Behaving Badly.As part of a late night Bullet Strand, the repeats kick of with the first series which features Harry Enfield and Martin Clunes as the Nineties answer to the Likely Lads. The show will begin broadcasting this… Continue reading UK Gold Resurrects Old Favourites
The Mirror Group has said that it will be restructuring its marketing department to focus more on brand building.The main result of the changes will be the appointment of two new heads of marketing. Margaret Harvey, group account director at direct marketing outfit IMP, will become marketing director of the Independent and the Independent On… Continue reading Mirror Group Restructures Marketing Department
ABC figures released for October show that the Daily Express‘s revamp has made little impact on the paper’s declining circulation in the face of the Daily Mail‘s growing strength.In October the Daily Express‘s sales fell by 3.64% to 1.205 million year-on-year and though this is a slight improvement on September’s drop of 5.27%, the Daily… Continue reading National Newspaper October ABCs
