The Retail Prices Index for September came in at 162.6, taking 1985 as the base rate. This represents an increase of 2.1% on last year and an increase of 0.5% on August.For RPI trends subscribers can access MediaTel’s Encyclomedia section in Talking Windows.
Liberty Publishing is set to launch a new radio station, 963 Liberty, on the old Viva frequency. Mohammed Fayed, the owner of Liberty, bought Viva in May 1995 for £3m at a time when the station was struggling *(Fayed Buys Viva!). The station hopes to provide a “distinctive new format of speech and music” and… Continue reading Liberty Launches New Radio Station
ITV is claiming that only 2% of homes targeted by Channel 5 have been successfully retuned and, projecting on the channel’s ‘current performance’, the 90% of homes which legally have to be retuned would not be completed until mid-1998.Research was carried out on behalf of ITV by Continental Research and RSL and was based on… Continue reading ITV Claims C5 Will Complete Retune In ’98
According to reports in yesterday’s Guardian, the Independent Television Commission (ITC) has written to Virginia Bottomley, the National Heritage Secretary, stating that the privatisation of Channel 4 could hinder the station’s remit to serve minority interests. Members of the ITC also believe that the move would make regulation for the channel much more difficult to… Continue reading ITC Opposes C4 Privatisation
The International Federation of Audit Bureaux of Circulation (IFABC) has set up a working committee that will work towards the standardised measurement and auditing of traffic at World Wide Web sites.IFABC made the move following its biennial general assembly in Washington *ABC Agrees On Web Auditing which agreed to develop a common set of minimum… Continue reading Website Auditing A Step Nearer
Many of this weeks stories highlight the increasing moves to merge the fields of television and Internet. London based ViewCall Europe said on Thursday that it has signed deals with three separate companies – Mitsubishi Electronics America, Yahoo!, and USA Today – to offer its OnTV television-based service to the Internet.OnTV is subscription-based and provides… Continue reading Web Round Up
Following a full review of ABC’s certification rules, the Farnham Herald Series and the Richmond and Twickenham Times Series are no longer members of ABC.ABC: 01442 877407
GWR, the UK commercial radio group, has confirmed that it is pulling out of its £70m bid for Westcountry Television. Contrary to GWR Bids £70m For Westcountry , the board has reassessed its bid and has decided that GWR’s resources would be stretched too far.The decision to pull out could lower the price for other… Continue reading GWR Pulls Out Of Bid
A spokesperson from Oftel, the telecommunications watchdog, has confirmed with Newsline that it is launching an investigation into links between BT and BSkyB which gives consumers various discounts on broadcast services and free telephone calls.According to an article in today’s Evening Standard certain cable companies see the alliance as being anti-competitive and a breach of… Continue reading Oftel Investigates BT/BSkyB Link
ITV is claiming that only 2% of homes targeted by Channel 5 have been successfully retuned and, based on the channel’s ‘current performance’, the 90% of homes which legally have to be retuned would not be completed until mid-1998.Research was carried out on behalf of ITV by Continental Research and RSL and was based on… Continue reading ITV Claims C5 Will Complete Retune In ’98
