Following its purchase of a 14.9% stake in STV yesterday, MGN has said it is interested in co-operation with STV, thus strengthening its media grip in Scotland – not acquisition. Current TV ownership rules prevent MGN owning more than 20% of STV, but the newspaper group was claiming last night that it was not looking… Continue reading MGN Interested in Co-Operation With STV, Not Acquisition
Financial Times Magazines is planning a January launch of a monthly free magazine aimed at the international expatriate in Britain. Called the International in Britain, it will focus on all the practical issues an international expatriate faces in Britain, together with leisure and cultural events. However, its main thrust will be to deliver expert financial… Continue reading FT Magazines Plan Financial Monthly Title
Peter Risdale, chief executive of home-shopping channel QVC has resigned. The channel has run up losses of £9m in the UK, but chairman Barry Diller insists it will stay on air. Mark Suckle takes over as chief executive.
The only applicant, Cable Communications Fylde and Wyre, has been awarded the cable licence for Blackpool and Fylde.The winning company is a wholly owned subsidiary of SBC Cablecomms (UK), which also owns the companies holding the cable franchises for South Lancashire, Central Lancashire, Wigan, St Helens & Knowsley, and Liverpool. The new area includes 101,000… Continue reading ITC Awards Blackpool Cable Licence
Channel 4 is claiming that its Big Breakfast show had a 300,000 peak time lead over GMTV on Monday of this week. GMTV has led consistently through the summer, but according to unofficial figures the C4 show had 1.8 million viewers at 8.00am on Monday, compared to 1.5 million for GMTV. This would be a… Continue reading Channel 4 Claims Big Breakfast Leads GMTV
…Aspen Communications, the publishing and media group has reported a pre-tax profit of £1.16m for the six months ending June 30. The figure is 10% down on the £1.29m for last year. However, that result was inflated by an exceptional credit of £1.1m.… International Business Communications, publisher of business titles such as Business Technology, has… Continue reading Publishing Results
Anglia Television has helped raise MAI’s operating profits by £5 million. MAI, the media and financial services company bought Anglia in March for £292m. MAI’s other television company Meridian managed to turn a £3.5m loss in the year to June 1993 into a £3.7m profit.MAI is planning to bid for the Channel 5 franchise, which… Continue reading MAI Profits Up £5m
The local delivery franchise for Eastern Derbyshire has not attracted any applicants, the ITC announced today. The franchise was advertised on 24 June with a deadline of noon on 19 September. The licence covers the Chesterfield, Matlock and Belper areas.Jon Davey, the ITC Director of Cable and Satellite, commented that “The absence of applications does… Continue reading No Applicants For Cable Licence
Channel 4’s autumn schedule, released today, is hailed as its “most challenging yet”, for both viewer and other commercial stations. One highlight is four feature-length films from Alan Bleasdale. Other films, in the Film on Four Season include The Crying Game, Peter’s Friends and The Long Day Closes.There is a return for C4’s two BAFTA… Continue reading Channel Four Autumn Schedule
The new editor of the Sunday Express, Brian Hitchen, has dropped both the separate London supplement, and Section 2 from within the main paper. Section 3 has been renamed Classic, as of yesterday.This leaves the Sunday Express with three sections; the main paper, the magazine and Classic. There is no change to rates.Sunday Express Display:… Continue reading Sunday Express Drops Sections
