The Daily Express is to launch its new sports supplement on Monday 29 April. The 24-page pull out will feature a full-page full colour photograph of the weekend’s main sports events each week.The supplement will feature a guide to sports results and league tables, a “Monday Interview” with leading sporting names, a weekly sports diary… Continue reading Express Launches Weekly Sports Supplement
Conrad Black’s Hollinger International and The Telegraph plc have announced a recommended offer to acquire all of the remaining issued ordinary shares of The Telegraph plc not at present owned by Hollinger. The offer, at 560p per share values the group at £763 million. Holllinger International already indirectly owns 64% of and therefore controls, the… Continue reading Hollinger To Acquire All Of Telegraph Plc
An on-line business information service called News EyeQ today launches a trial beta version to test reaction before a general release next month.News EyeQ is a joint venture between DataTimes Corporation and News International and will provide access to a database of some 6000 information sources from around the world. This includes a large collection… Continue reading On-Line Business Service To Launch
The ITC has today published its 1995 Performance Reviews of the ITV companies, Channel 4, GMTV and Teletext.The reviews indicate general satisfaction with the performance of ITV and Channel 4, but there are a number of problems concerning the broadcasters which the ITC are not satisfied with. The major concern of the ITC regards the… Continue reading ITC Publishes 1995 Performance Reviews
The Sunday Business claims it sold 145,608 copies of its launch edition this Sunday. Agencies were told the paper has an intended circulation of 450,000 copies, and an advertiser’s guarantee of 150,000. According to an unofficial survey carried out by Marketing magazine, around 79% of copies were sold in Surrey, whereas in some London areas… Continue reading Sunday Business Sells 145,000 Copies
http://www.htv.co.ukHTV’s Internet site is attractively presented but unfortunately falls short on the information provided. Throughout the site graphics are slick and classy and not overdone – they are used mainly as link boxes and page titles. The content of the site however is almost exclusively HTV programme details: there are no interactive or search facilities… Continue reading Website Of The Week: HTV
Rajar, following its announcement last month that it is to revert back to the “pre-list” diary format from Quarter 2 1996, has revised the timetable for the release date for Quarter 1 1996 data. These results will also be subject to the “ascription” process which was used for Q4 1995 data to compensate for the… Continue reading Rajar Q1 1996 Release Dates
The Radio Authority has fined Piccadilly 1152 £1,000 for broadcasting an offensive and ‘blasphemous’ exchange of views between a presenter and a caller to a late-night ‘phone-in. This item was found to break Broadcasting Act rules on taste and decency and religious matters.Overall there were 68 programming complaints, of which 10 were upheld, and 101… Continue reading Radio Authority Fines Station £1,000
Amra, the regional sales company, is joining forces with Print Direction, the card deck publisher, to provide advertisers with a new newspaper-linked direct marketing service which will generate an additional revenue source for the regional press.Print Direction, which produces card decks for over 30 regional newspapers and business publications in the UK, has appointed Amra… Continue reading Amra In New Card Deck Newspaper Initiative
News International and the Press Association have announced plans to launch Classified Link UK, an interactive online classified advertising service for the UK’s newspapers.Classified Link UK will offer newspapers the opportunity to sell over the Internet as part of a classified site. It will be a national database linking jobs, property, travel, motoring and business… Continue reading PA And News International To Develop Online Advertising
