United News & Media had a fairly bad week on the stock market last week. At the start of the week the company’s share price stood at 663.5p before falling to 646p on Friday. Rivals Southnews had a slightly better week increasing from 446.5p on Monday to 450p on Friday.BSkyB didn’t fair too well this… Continue reading Sharewatch W/E 13/12/96
J Walter Thompson has published details of a survey it had commissioned by Beck Consultancy into national daily newspapers. The survey was carried out in the London and South East area between Tuesday September 24th and Saturday September 28th and some of its findings were: The placing of advertisements in broadsheets make no difference as… Continue reading Right Sided Ads No Better Than Left
The national newspaper ABCs for November show that the Times is the most improved title on the market. The News International title showed a 16.08% increase in year-on-year to 783,638 copies. The Daily Mail has also continued to improve its 6-monthly ABC figure, up 13.28% to 2,083,309 copies.In was a similar picture in the Sunday… Continue reading National Newspaper November ABCs
The ITC has announced that Telewest Communications is the only applicant for the local cable franchise for the Lothian area.… the ITC has also announced that there are four applicants for the cable franchise for the Milton Keynes area. They are: BT New Towns Cable TV CableTel Bedfordshire Ltd Cable Television Ltd Metro Communications (MK)… Continue reading ITC Cable News
BSkyB plans to bring in pay per view movies have been hit by the refusal of a further two Hollywood studies to allow the satellite station exclusive access to their film catalogue. Disney and MCA have followed Warner Brothers similar move of only offering pay-per-view rights to broadcasters on a non-exclusive basis.Last month cable companies… Continue reading Disney & MCA Refuse BSkyB PPV Rights
Duncan Lewis has left his position as head of Granada’s media division. Granada said that Mr Lewis, who had only just joined the company, left after he and the company “recognised an incompatibility of approaches,” and he had agreed to “part on an amicable basis.”Steve Morrison, chief operating officer of the media division, has been… Continue reading Granada Man Resigns
BT and Microsoft have announced that Digital Equipment Corporation will be their first strategic partner for a new range of corporate intranet services (private Internets).Intranet services will be marketed by BT in the UK and it is intended to make them available globally using Digital’s world-wide services organisation. Digital will provide BT corporate customers with… Continue reading BT And Microsoft Find Intranet Partner
Challenge TV , the new name for Flextech’s Family Channel Takes The Challenge , will shortly be announcing details on its programming. The programming will aim to broaden viewers’ perceptions of the gameshow genre from traditional studio to leisure based shows. Challenge TV will be a mixture of original programmes produced by the company and… Continue reading Challenge TV Programming Details
IPC is rumoured to be launching a new TV listings title called Film & TV Week towards the end of January.The title will probably contain a mix of features, such as interviews and reviews, as well as detailed TV listings. Aiming for a core readership of 18-25 year olds the cover price will be 80p,… Continue reading IPC To Launch Listings Title
Nicola Young has left Jazz FM to join cinema advertising company Cinema Media. Her new position will be that of marketing manager.… EMAP radio has appointed Malcolm Cox to position of marketing director. Cox leaves Kiss FM where he held the same position.… Adrian Zambardino is joining Griffin Bacal filling the position of senior planner.… Continue reading Appointments
