A Bill to be presented before Parliament today is causing concern amongst the magazine industry. The Bill proposed by Peter Luff, MP for Worcester, calls for magazines to be required to publish minimum readership ages on their covers.Magazine industry body the Periodical Publishers Association has dismissed the proposal as “unnecessary and dangerous.” PPA chief executive… Continue reading Industry Concern Over Magazine Censorship Bill
Britannia Music Club is to sponsor the ITV coverage of the Brit Awards for the third time. The Awards programme will be produced by Initial Film and TV for Carlton and aired on the network on Tuesday 20th February 1996.The event is to be held at Earls Court Exhibition centre and will be hosted by… Continue reading Britannia Music Club To Sponsor The Brit Awards
Expectations of a round of takeovers and demergers in the television market once the Broadcasting Bill goes through are causing soaring prices in stocks. Once the bill goes through, maybe in the Summer, television companies will no longer be restricted by numbers of licences held, but a limit of 15% of total television audience.Those companies… Continue reading Television Takeover Rumours Continue
In a new initiative, BBC Top Gear Magazine has appointed regional specialist SMS (Sales and Media Services) to provide full service representation for the Northern region, including Scotland and Ireland. Manchester based SMS, a sister company to Amra, will offer display, classified, insert and sponsorship opportunities on the title.Garry Martin, advertising manager of Top Gear… Continue reading BBC Top Gear Appoints Regional Specialist
The Department of National Heritage has published a Government paper, ‘Broadcast Sports Rights: Informing the Debate’, which aims to ‘help inform the public and Parliamentary debate’ on the question of TV coverage of sports events.Virginia Bottomley, National Heritage Secretary, said: “There is a widespread view that certain events are more than mere sporting occasions and… Continue reading Government Opens Debate On TV Sport
Yesterday saw the Sunday Express launching a revamped version of its Classic supplement. Expresso, which keeps the same size and format as its predecessor, is the third reincarnation for the Sunday Express supplement. Section III launched in September 1993; this became Classic a year later in September 1994 to be followed yesterday by the relaunch… Continue reading Sunday Express Expresso Replaces Classic
Attic Futura’s teenage magazine Sugar, which launched in October of 1994 has released its second ABC; at 318,053 for July – December 1995 this is an increase of over 55,000 copies on its first ABC, up 21.2%. What Personal Computer has also released its July-December ABC today, up 18.3% on last year’s figure. Jl-Dec’94 Jl-Dec’95… Continue reading Latest ABCs – Sugar Up 21% On Last Period
The Evening Standard has announced two promotions: Zoe Bartlett to the position of Ad Manager and Christine O’Doherty to Agency Sales Controller.These moves result from the promotion of Gavin Baylis to General Manager of a new division of Associated Newspapers Ltd.
The London-based Middle East Broadcasting Centre believes it will be able to win an additional 10 million viewers with its new transmission via terrestrial transponders.This means that the satellite station’s reception in the Middle East will now be clearer and viewers will not need a satellite dish or any other reception device.Middle East Broadcasting Centre:… Continue reading MBC Reaches 10 Million New Viewers
Speculation continues to mount over the possible takeover of media group Pearson. The latest candidate rumoured to be interested in Pearson, which owns the FT, Penguin books and Thames Television, is Viacom.With revenues of more than $11bn, Viacom is now the world’s second largest media group after Time Warner. Analysts believe that the similarities between… Continue reading Media Takeover Rumours
