It is rumoured in the national press that British Sky Broadcasting is exploring the possibility of broadcasting all English Premier League games live using digital technology.BSkyB have already signed digital contracts allowing 120 channels of television to be accessed. Sources in the industry say that the service could be available within a year.The service would… Continue reading BSkyB May Show All Premier Games Digitally
Borders On Sunday, the Sunday newspaper which was launched at the end of August has closed after just four issues.The newspaper was launched by the Chairman of Carlisle Football Club Michael Knighton just two weeks after rival newspaper Sunday News & Star came onto the market. Both papers were hoping for a circulation of around… Continue reading Regional Sunday Title To Close
The 1995 MTV Europe Music Awards, held on 23 November in Paris, are to be sponsored by Lee Jeans, Mitsubishi Motors, Burger King and Apple Computer.Lee Jeans is sponsoring the event for the second year running; Lee is supporting its sponsorship with a Europe wide programme of in-store promotions and competitions. For Mitsubishi Motors, the… Continue reading MTV Europe Music Awards – Sponsors
The Carmarthen Journal which is owned by Northcliffe Newspapers is to be relaunched this Wednesday as a tabloid. The Journal, Wales’ oldest newspaper has been given this face-lift after research including a poll of the readers showed that tabloid was the preferred format; the paper is also doubling its pagination from 32 to 64.Contact Liz… Continue reading Wales’ Oldest Newspaper Shapes Up For The Future
The Broadcasting Standards Council has upheld complaints against the Radio 1’s Breakfast Show. The Council found some comments made by Mr Evans unsuitable for a breakfast audience.Two complaints concerned an offensive reference to a ‘shag’ during a skit on the television show ‘Countdown’ in the programme broadcast on 17 May. There was one complaint which… Continue reading Ooh Err Missus – Chris Evans Accused Of Smut
A new study published by CIT Research called Satellite Communications In Europe 1995, predicts that by the year 2004, nearly 9 million European households could own a digital satellite receiver.Although the future of digital terrestrial television in many countries is as yet unsettled, the study points to the potential for satellite delivered digital TV broadcasts,… Continue reading New Study Into Future Of Digital TV
Ian Scott has left Cinema Media after just two months as Sales Director; he joined from IPC’s Women’s Weeklies division.Katrina Hill, Cinema Media’s group sales and Marketing Director has now appointed Andy Williams as the director of national sales with Debbie Edinger as his deputy.… Mediacom has poached Trevor Barry, Channel 4’s group head, to… Continue reading Appointments
Initial results from research into newspaper section readership show that Sunday newspapers are, as has always been claimed, read for longer. Sunday papers take an average of 1 hour 27 minutes to read through, Saturday papers take 1 hour 11 minutes. The research shows that size of the paper is not the issue either, because… Continue reading Sunday Newspapers Read For Longer
United News & Media has released results today, reporting a decrease in pre-tax profits of nearly 7% for the 6 months ending June, to £65.1m.Lord Stevens, chairman of the group which includes Express Newspapers said that results were held back by re-launch costs in the UK, and that national newspapers were affected by lower circulation… Continue reading United News & Media Profits Down 6.9%
Yesterday saw Channel 4’s autumn schedule formally announced, with drama getting top billing, according to John Willis, Director of Programming.Willis also said that C4 had enjoyed a successful year with factual based programming and would continue to do so into the next season. He said that £70m had been invested in the new schedule and… Continue reading Channel 4 Autumn Schedule
