Sky Scottish, STV and BSkyB’s cable and satellite venture, has announced details of its schedule for its launch on November 1. 30 minute programmes will run daily between 18.00 and 20.00 straight after Granada’s Talk TV on the same frequency. The launch programme, This is Sky Scottish, will be presented by David Rintoul of Doctor… Continue reading Sky Scottish Reveals Line-Up
Trinity’s Belfast Telegraph has launched a new Saturday morning newspaper in Belfast called Saturday Extra. It is a 60-page tabloid with three sections covering news, sport and TV listings and costs 20p. Its main competition will be the Irish News, which costs 32p, and Tindle Newspapers’ the News Letter which sells for 35p.Belfast Telegraph: 01504… Continue reading New Paper For Belfast
Today sees IPC’s ‘biggest magazine launch in eight years’ – Now magazine – ‘The smarter women’s weekly’.Aimed at BC1C2 women aged 20-44 the title launches into what is becoming a fairly crowded women’s weekly market and unfortunately offers nothing very new or different. The magazine’s content varies little from magazines likely to be its main… Continue reading Now Magazine – First Issue Review
One can actually point out some of those responsible for the current growth in interest in the areas of strange phenomena: new age philosophy and things that go bump in the night. Scully, Mulder, Mystic Meg, and Yuri Geller all have a lot to answer for. The Fortean Times was actually founded in 1973, and… Continue reading Website Of The Week: Fortean Times
The ITC has decided that Scottish Television’s acquisition of Caledonian Publishing *STV Takes Over Caledonian does not operate against the public interest and can go ahead.The ITC and Office of Fair Trading launched a public interest test regarding the takeover as part of the provisions for the new cross-media ownership rules which were introduced by… Continue reading STV Gets Approval For Caledonian Takeover
Virgin Radio has announced a change in its daytime line-up which sees Russ ‘n Jono’s Breakfast Show extended an extra hour to 10am.The changes have also resulted in Jeremy Clark, who joined the station six weeks ago as overnight presenter, moving into a new afternoon slot between 1 and 4pm. Graham Dene, currently host of… Continue reading Virgin Radio Gets New Daytime Schedule
According to this week’s Campaign Paul Twivy, former chief executive of Bates Dorland, is threatening to sue the agency over alleged breach of contract.The wrangle concerns Twivy’s departure from the agency in September *Dorland Chief Exec Leaves. He is claiming wrongful dismissal, accusing Michael Bungey, Dorland’s chairman, of reneging on a promise to make him… Continue reading Twivy Issues Writ Against Dorlands
According to agency estimates total TV ad revenue for September reached £184.71m, an increase of 2.29% year-on-year. ITV’s revenue remained reasonably static, increasing 0.18% to £141.71m, while Channel 4 rose by 9.9% to £43m. The ratio between ITV and Channel 4 for September was 77:23.Overall among the ITV contractors there was very little change. Only… Continue reading TV Revenue – September
Channel 5 has carried out a test transmission in Cumbria to assess how many of those homes which had not been retuned actually experienced interference.According to C5, less than 20% out of 37,000 homes received a bad signal – far less than the 50% which had been anticipated. A high profile publicity drive through newspapers,… Continue reading C5 Claims Low Interference Levels
