The DTI has published the long-awaited guidelines on digital television which gives broadcasters access to the set top boxes. The rules are said to allow access on fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory means, once they are available on the market.There is still a final consultation period that is carrying on until December 11th with the Government… Continue reading DTI Publishes Further Details On Digital Television
95.8 Capital FM will be moving Chris Tarrant’s Breakfast Show to a new start time of 6.30am with effect from January 6 as part of its New Year programme schedules.The Breakfast Show will continue to broadcast until 10am when Steve Penk will move into a new mid morning slot between 10am and 1pm from his… Continue reading Tarrant’s Breakfast Show Extended
The sale of the BBC’s domestic and foreign transmission service reached the final stage yesterday when four UK and US groups handed in their final bids. All offers for this, the BBC’s first privatisation, are believed to exceed £200 million.The four bidders are International CableTel, a consortium led by Securicor, Mercury Asset Management and Castletower… Continue reading BBC Sell Off Attracts Final Bids
The Sun and the Daily Mirror revealed today the Christmas television schedules, as the battle between the terrestrial channels continues.BBC1 starts the fight on Christmas Eve premiering the film Super Mario Brothers while for the same time ITV can only come up with Protocol, and later on in the evening Top Gun both films shown… Continue reading Christmas Schedules For 1996
Future Publishing has appointed Stephen Price as the new advertising manager responsible for FutureNet, the company’s website. He was previously director of sales and marketing at Screen International in Los Angeles.Future say that due to the ‘tremendous growth’ within this division, the London team is looking to recruit another three members to its ad department… Continue reading Future Appoints Ad Manager For Website
The latest ITC cable statistics for October 1st 1996, show that the television penetration rate has increased by 0.4% since October 1st 1995. The number of cable telephony lines rose to 2,015,134, with the total number of homes connected to any sort of cable delivered service reaching 2.3 million.Broadband cable became available to over 600,000… Continue reading Cable Penetration Increases For October
The Independent Television Commission has today announced that the licence fees payable by the ITV franchise holders will remain unchanged for the first quarter of 1997.This will disappoint many in the industry, especially YTTV, who have campaigned for a change in the way licence fees are calculated. Particularly irritating to some is the fact that… Continue reading ITV Licence Fees Remain Unchanged
The latest NRS figures released yesterday reveal that amongst the daily broadsheets the Times and FT were the only titles to register increased readerships. 12-month figures show that the Times‘s readership has gone up by over 12% year on year while the FT‘s has grown by over 8%. It was a similar picture in the… Continue reading Newspaper NRS Figures – October
Channel 4 has announced its Christmas schedule, which it says provides its traditional mix of the untraditional for a fortnight of alternative festive viewing. Following the trend of Christmas pasts, Channel 4 will again be showing an alternative to the Queen’s Speech. Rory Bremner will be impersonating Princess Diana in what the station says will… Continue reading Channel 4 Unveils Festive Crackers
Euromoney, the magazine publisher and conference organiser, has announced record interim profits for the year to September 30th 1996.Euromoney achieved pre tax profits of £25.5 million, which compares to £18.2 million for the same time last year. Cost cutting and improved cash margins are said to have contributed to the improved profits.Euromoney Publications: 0171 779… Continue reading Euromoney Announce Interim Profits
