ITV has this morning released details of its Winter Schedule 1995, with emphasis on action/adventure and comedy. Marcus Plantin, unveiling ITV’s £198m schedule for the New Year, said, “We intend to keep our viewers very happy this winter with exciting new drama, plenty of comedy and top movies.”Drama highlights include John Thaw as a barrister… Continue reading ITV Winter Schedule
Yorkshire Tyne Tees is holding talks with other companies about bidding for the Channel 5 licence, the chairman, Ward Thomas has revealed. These include Virgin, Channel Nine and US groups. Ward Thomas, announcing YTTV’s results, said that he thought the most sensible approach would be for all the ITV companies to form a consortium to… Continue reading YTTV Seeking Partners For C5 Bid
Capital Radio has reported results for the year to September 30. Pre-tax profit was a record £22.15m, up 88.8% year on year from £11.73m. Results were helped by the sale of a group of radio stations for £4.2m.However, despite these results, the chairman Ian Irvine warned that Capital faces new competition after three new London… Continue reading Capital Radio Record Profits
BT has announced that it is to start consumer trials of BT Interactive TV, including video on demand, in the middle of next year, with 2500 households in Colchester and Ipswich. This follows the success of its technical trials held with 60 BT employees.During the trial BT aims to offer shopping on demand, video on… Continue reading BT Video On Demand Trial With Consumers
BSkyB yesterday published its pathfinder prospectus for its proposed £4bn Global Offer. The offer is to comprise 343 million shares with the price expected to be between 233p and 268p per share. The offer will be split with 306.6 million shares subject to an International Offer and 36.4 million subject to a UK Retail Offer.BSkyB’s… Continue reading BSKYB Launches Global Offer
The Department of National Savings is to sponsor Central Television’s regional programme Millionaires, which covers the lifestyles of the rich and famous. The 5-part series begins on November 21 and will be followed by 6 more programmes in the Spring.
Andrew Neil, editor of the Sunday Times, yesterday announced he is to leave Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation in January. Neil has been on secondment to Fox Television in America but decided to quit Murdoch’s media empire when Fox dropped the weekly prime-time news programme he was working on.Neil will still write the Sunday Times leader… Continue reading Neil Quits Sunday Times
Weekend press articles report that Ward Thomas, Chairman of YTTV will have informal talks with Burce Gyngell, former TV-am chairman, about the possibility of Gyngell taking over at Yorkshire. Ward Thomas is expected to retire in 1996.
The latest round of National Newspaper ABCs show the price cut still having effects; the Times’ 6-monthly circulation is up 48% year on year to 576,586. The Times’ monthly figure for October, at 614,477 is up 1.2% on September.The Sunday Times, with a monthly increase of 16.7% on September fared well, up to 1,439,596. The… Continue reading Newspaper Circulations – October
Lord Wakeham, the former Conservative cabinet minister, is to be the new chairman of the Press Complaints Commission. The appointment will be announced formally next week after talks with Lord McGregor, the present chairman, on the timing of his retirement.
