Channel 5 Broadcasting, which has today been announced as the winner of the bid to hold the last national terrestrial television channel, has promised it will begin broadcasting on 1 January 1997.Channel 5 Broadcasting’s programming “will show popular programmes every day, and will try to schedule them as far as possible when similar programmes are… Continue reading Channel 5 Broadcasting – Details
Channel 5 Broadcasting, the consortium made up of Pearson, MAI and Luxembourg- based CLT has won the Channel 5 licence, it has just been announced.Channel 5 Broadcasting, which put in a bid of £22,002,000, identical to that of Virgin TV has beaten the highest bidding UKTV, which had been widely expected to win.
Premier Radio, the UK’s first Christian Radio station which launched on 10 June, is launching its second direct marketing campaign in a bid to raise more money for the station.The £7,000 mail-out comes as Premier launches its new autumn programme schedule in response to listener’s demands for a format of more news and talk. The… Continue reading Premier Radio Launches Funding Appeal
Madame Figaro – the new bi-monthly fashion and style magazine will be launched this Sunday 29th in the Observer. Madame Figaro used to be a bi-annual title distributed free with the Guardian.The launch will be supported with a 20 second television commercial on ITV, which continues the Observers’ recurrent advertisement theme of the newspaper section… Continue reading Madame Figaro – Observer Magazine Launches
The Independent Television Commission has today confirmed it will announce its decision on the fifth national television channel, Channel 5, tomorrow. Following their monthly meeting last week no decision was forthcoming, but an extra meeting was held yesterday at which the decision was finalised.The highest bidder, UKTV, remains favourite, despite worries over high levels of… Continue reading Channel 5 Decision Tomorrow
The Office of Fair Trading has said that the Disney Channel, which has been available through BSkyB along with the two premium movie channels, must be offered on a non exclusive basis.Complaints from other cable operators led the OFT to reconsider BSkyB’s position. In letters to the operators, the OFT said the terms of the… Continue reading OFT Ends BskyB/Disney Exclusivity
ITV have acquired the rights to the European Rugby World Cup after signing a multi million pound three year deal with European Rugby Cup Ltd.The European Rugby Cup will kick off in Romania on October 31 when the home club champions Farul Contanta, entertain the French double winners, Toulouse.ITV who are already signed up for… Continue reading Euro Rugby World Cup Rights
Tony Blin Stoyle, advertisement director of the Financial Times has left his position and has been appointed as planning director of FT Media as part of a reshuffle. The new position will put him in charge of investigating new media opportunities and masterminding cross media sales within the Pearson Group.David Pugh is leaving his position… Continue reading Press Departures
Television viewing for the week ending 15/10/95 has risen by 1.5% when compared to the same week last year. Commercial television has for the second week in a row managed to achieve more than 50% share of the television viewing audience (50.6%).Programmes doing well this week include ITV’s one-off drama Bliss, which attracted 9.99 million… Continue reading TV Viewing Summary
CIA Medianetwork has announced it is to merge with The Communication Counsel, which is already 100% owned by the CIA Group.The £20m billing Communications Counsel was known as WM Media until July, when CIA Group acquired it and renamed it TCC. All TCC staff and operations are to move to CIA Medianetwork’s offices, with the… Continue reading Communications Counsel To Merge Into CIA
