An approach made by Premier Media to take over the film and television interests of the Rank Organisation has been rejected. Premier Media is a consortium led by Michael Grade, chief executive of Channel Four Television, and the offer was said to be in the region of £400m.HESELTINE INTERVENTION IN ITV TAKEOVERSTrade and Industry Secretary… Continue reading Rank Rejects Takeover Approach
A new ratecard for the Granada/Border macro region, North by Northwest, will be available within the next two weeks.According to Peter Lilley, Client Sales and Support Director, the new region has been created “to enable one transaction, one price and one payment to cover both stations,” and should encourage greater use of Border by any… Continue reading Granada/Border Deal
Three separate submissions to the ITC indicate a revival of interest in the development of a fifth national TV channel. The ITC rejected the only bid for C5,from a Thames TV-led consortium, last December.Chairman of the MAI Group Lord Hollick has formally written to the ITC advocating the re-advertisement of Channel Five. His company has… Continue reading Channel Five Interest Revived
Sky TV has today announced that over 400,000 subscribers, all previously non movie subscribers, have taken up the new Multi Channel package.The majority of these new subscribers have also taken one or more of Sky’s premium channels – Sky Movies, The Movie Channel, or Sky Sports.Increased demand has meant that more than 100,000 dishes were… Continue reading M-Channel Package Increase Dish Sales
A new ratecard for the Granada/Border macro region, North by Northwest, will be available within the next two weeks.According to Peter Lilley, Client Sales and Support Director, the new region has been created “to enable one transaction, one price and one payment to cover both stations,” and should encourage greater use of Border by any… Continue reading Granada/Border Deal
An approach made by Premier Media to take over the film and television interests of the Rank Organisation has been rejected. Premier Media is a consortium led by Michael Grade, chief executive of Channel Four Television, and the offer was said to be in the region of £400m.HESELTINE INTERVENTION IN ITV TAKEOVERSTrade and Industry Secretary… Continue reading Rank Rejects Takeover Approach
QVC Network yesterday increased the strength of its takeover bid for Paramount by securing $1bn worth of equity investment from Cox Enterprises and Advance Publications. QVC’s current bid stands at $9.6bn.
Marcher Coast FM and Marcher Gold will shortly be running a month long ad campaign for Satellite Decoder Systems, the company which sells unauthorised decoders for Sky TV subscription channels. It would appear that whilst it is illegal to manufacture, hire, distribute or use the pirate decoders, it is not illegal to advertise them.CALL TO… Continue reading Radio Ads For Illegal Decoders
BBC World Service TV has issued a writ against News Corporation following disagreements over the expansion of global TV news. The writ follows a threat from Mr Murdoch’s lawyers that StarTV would terminate its 10 year contract with the BBC, if the BBC went ahead with its planned launch of an Arabic language TV news… Continue reading BBC Serves Writ On Murdoch
Three separate submissions to the ITC indicate a revival of interest in the development of a fifth national TV channel. The ITC rejected the only bid for C5,from a Thames TV-led consortium, last December.Chairman of the MAI Group Lord Hollick has formally written to the ITC advocating the re-advertisement of Channel Five. His company has… Continue reading Channel Five Interest Revived
