TeleWest Plc has become TeleWest Communications in a move which effectively means the rebranding of twenty-five of its local cable franchises.TeleWest has previously operated under the United Artists Communications brand in sixteen of its franchises and as Cable North West and Cable Midlands elsewhere. Commenting on the change Alan Michels, chief executive of TeleWest, said:… Continue reading TeleWest Unveils New Identity
The Independent today launched a new sports section for the summer season. ‘Summer of Sport’ is a twelve-page broadsheet covering all aspects of sport, though with an emphasis on Euro ’96.As well as the Euro ’96 section there are also pages devoted to cricket and racing with more general pages covering athletics, rugby, the Olympics… Continue reading New Section For Independent
According to the Broadcasting Standards Council’s latest annual survey, violence still rates as the issue of key concern over bad language and sexual activity, although the proportion of respondents considering there to be “too much” violence on television has fallen.The proportion of respondents who say there is too much violence on television decreased from 66%… Continue reading Violence Remains Viewers’ Prime Concern
Channel 4 has announced what it claims is its “most diverse summer season ever”. Billed as an alternative to the summer sporting coverage, highlights of its new season include a movie season of mainstream and cult movies; leading this schedule is The Piano, backed by Channel 4. As part of The Celluloid Closet there will… Continue reading Channel 4 Summer Season
The long awaited return of BBC1’s classic sci-fi drama series Doctor Who looks to have been a success with 9.08 million people watching the good doctor’s first adventure in over seven years. It was the third most watched programme on Monday 27th May behind Coronation Street and Eastenders and had a 36% consolidated share of… Continue reading Doctor Who Brightens Up BBC1’s Bank Holiday Viewing Figures
It has emerged that struggling Sunday Business has been forced to apply for administration after being issued with writs by two advertising agencies.If the application is successful a court will appoint an administrator to steady the newspaper’s finances and seek new investment. If it fails, the paper could face bankruptcy. Sunday Business told MediaTel that… Continue reading Sunday Business In Financial Crisis
After less than seven days on-line the Exchange & Mart Internet site is claiming 86,349 hits. (This is for the period 12pm on 3.6.96 to midnight on 10.6.96).The logging information also reveals that Exchange & Mart surfers had better things to do than watch England v Switzerland last Saturday, as the busiest time that day… Continue reading Exchange & Mart Web Site Claims Over 86,000 Hits In First
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QualitiesThe only daily quality titles to improve year on year circulation in May were the Times, up 1.79%, or nearly 12,000 copies to 676,422, and the Financial Times, up by 0.55% or 1,600 copies to 302,266. These two titles also recorded the biggest increases of any national newspapers compared to last month; the FT was… Continue reading National Press Round-Up – May
BT and its US partner MCI have announced the world’s first high-speed, high-reliability global Internet “backbone” network.The new service, called Concert InternetPlus, will combine the substantial existing Internet networks of the two companies into eight new regional Internet “superhubs”. It is planned that these will expand within a year to a total of 20 hubs… Continue reading BT To Launch First Global Internet Network
The ITC has received nine complaints regarding ITV’s Saturday evening show Man O Man in which an audience of three hundred women assess ten men on their looks, personalities and talents. The complainants, who were mainly men, believed that the programme was degrading to men and would not have been allowed if the sexes of… Continue reading Men Find Man O Man Offensive
