ITV has announced its forthcoming schedule for Winter 1994. The £186m season is aiming to attract big volume and upmarket audiences.There was much emphasis put on new quality drama and new factual series. Over £75m is to be spent on drama series over the Winter season, including eight new series and eight returning favourites. Big… Continue reading ITV WINTER 1994 SCHEDULE
The future of press self-regulation has been thrown into further doubt after the three newspapers of the Mirror Group; Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and the People, have pulled out of the Press Complaints Commission.Peter Brooke, national heritage secretary, warned that the publication of the photographs by MGN demonstrated the shortcomings of self-regulation and increased the… Continue reading MGN Pulls Out Of Complaints Commission
MTV has signed a deal with Italian clothing company Fashion Box SPA to advertise the Replay Blue Jeans range.The package includes Replay Blue Jeans sponsoring each edition of MTV At The Movies, which is shown twice every week day.
Full details of the ITV Winter 1994 Schedule are being announced this morning and will be available on MediaTel this afternoon.This is the first season when the network centre will not be publishing a printed detailed schedule, and the presentation today will be more informal than previously, with any advertisers wishing to see longer clips… Continue reading ITV Winter 1994 Schedule
MTV has signed a deal with Italian clothing company Fashion Box SPA to advertise the Replay Blue Jeans range.The package includes Replay Blue Jeans sponsoring each edition of MTV At The Movies, which is shown twice every week day.
Don’t Tell It, a new style, fashion and music magazine aimed at ABC1 23-35 men and women launches this week. In his preface, editor and publisher Jiro Jaife, says “If you’re reading this piece it means we made our deadlines and sold the ads.” An ironic statement to make considering the magazine was originally due… Continue reading DONT TELL IT FIRST ISSUE REVIEW
The Independent Television Commission has issued a formal statement reacting to the resignation of the chairman of Yorkshire Tyne Tees Television, Clive Leach, which was announced yesterday.The ITC states that it is sad to see Leach leave, and that he has led YTV through difficult and challenging times. Sir George Russell, Chairman of the ITC,… Continue reading ITC Reacts To YTTV’s Chief
Your Garden, the monthly gardening magazine from IPC which launched in March, has just been issued with its first ABC figures.Your Garden launched with an initial print run of 160,000. The ABC figure for June to August 1993 is 132,424.ABC CIRCULATION FIGURES AND BASIC DATA TITLE CP FQ CIRC DATE (p) 000s BBC GARDNRS WLD… Continue reading Your Garden Circulation Figures
The BBC is considering creating a range of international satellite television channels using its archives.Following last week’s confirmation that the licence fee will be linked to inflation, the corporation is set to maximise its earnings. According to Bob Phillis, BBC deputy director-general, the main opportunities lie in creating thematic channels in areas such as entertainment… Continue reading BBC To Move Into Satellite
The Sunday Mirror has attracted wide-spread condemnation over publication of photographs of the Princess of Wales working out in a gymnasium. Further photographs appear in today’s Daily Mirror, which says it will not be “cowed by the hysterical accusations now being made against it”.Lord McGregor, chairman of the Press Complaints Commission has described the Mirror… Continue reading MIRROR CONDEMNED OVER PRINCESS PHOTOS
