As the main attractions of the Olympics (the Men’s and Women’s 100 metre finals) were last week, this week sees a return to the normal pattern of soap operas dominating the top thirty programme list. Monday’s edition of Coronation Street was the top rated programme with 14.64 million viewers and a consolidated share of audience… Continue reading TV Viewing Summary W/E 04/08/96
International News & Media, the West Midlands publisher, has confirmed details of a new national newspaper it plans to launch later this year.Today’s News will be a 36-page daily tabloid covering general news. International told MediaTel that the title will cost 30p and have an initial print-run of 300,000, with an expected circulation of 200,000.… Continue reading New National Paper Planned
MTV Europe has switched Blah Blah Blah‘s publisher from Ray Gun to Attic Futura in a move which, according to MTV, is aimed at broadening the music title’s distribution to the Continent.Sandra Keenan, vice president of MTV Europe’s corporate affairs, dismissed talk that Ray Gun had dropped Blah Blah Blah due to poor sales. She… Continue reading MTV Changes Blah Blah Blah Publisher
Match Of The Day Front Cover A new Premiership season means another season of Match of the Day on Saturday night. To coincide with the new series BBC Magazines have today launched Match of the Day magazinein an attempt to offer football fans the more intense goings on in football. The weekly magazine is priced… Continue reading Reviews: Match Of The Day, Sported!
The BBC will launch its new daytime schedule on Monday 2nd September. Alan Yentob unveiled a package which includes programmes reflecting leisure, lifestyle and consumer interests, topical issues and entertainment.Programmes include Breakfast News Extra with Juliet Morris; The Terrace, a DIY show presented by Mike Reid; cookery with Nick Nairn in Who’ll Do The Pudding;… Continue reading BBC Unveils New Daytime Schedule
Talk Radio has signed a six figure sponsorship deal with One 2 One, Mercury’s mobile phone division. The deal will feature in the football slot Mobile Phone Fans, part of There’s Only One Gary Newbon, which starts at the beginning of the football season (August 17).Talk Radio are looking to build on the success of… Continue reading Talk Radio Kicks Off With Sponsorship Deal
The 1996 European Television Symposium, to be held in November in Prague, will focus on the development of commercial broadcasting in Central Europe and the difficulties facing the sector in Western Europe.In particular the problem of developing ‘people meters’ which will effectively measure an ever more fragmented television audience will be discussed. The symposium will… Continue reading Symposium To Tackle TV ‘Crisis’
The Guardian will be introducing two new sections to its Saturday edition. The Week is a new current affairs section providing a review of the week with features, comment and background information on the week’s big stories. Jobs & Money will provide coverage of the converging issues relating to the workplace and jobs, personal finance… Continue reading New Sections For Saturday Guardian
