Viacom International, the US cable television group is to buy Paramount Communications, the entertainment and publishing company, for $8.2bn (£5.32b) in the biggest US media takeover since Time and Warner in 1989.Viacom’s channels include MTV and Nickelodeon. Paramount is best known for its Paramount Pictures Film Studio and its Paramount theme parks. The deal should… Continue reading Viacom To Takeover Paramount
PopularsThe latest national newspaper ABCs for August’93 show that reducing cover prices does have a direct bearing on sales. The Sun’s August’s ABC is up by more than 350,000 on June, before the price war began, to 3,832,397. The newspaper has also recorded its first year-on-year increase in its 6-monthly ABC for well over a… Continue reading National Press Round-Up
Viacom International, the US cable television group is to buy Paramount Communications, the entertainment and publishing company, for $8.2bn (£5.32b) in the biggest US media takeover since Time and Warner in 1989.Viacom’s channels include MTV and Nickelodeon. Paramount is best known for its Paramount Pictures Film Studio and its Paramount theme parks. The deal should… Continue reading Viacom To Takeover Paramount
Carlton Communications, the television company which has the independent TV franchise for London, and a stake in ITN, is interested in acquiring a stake in Newspaper Publishing, owners of The Independent and Independent on Sunday.The move is seen as a challenge to the regulations limiting cross-ownership of newspaper and TV stations, and to media magnate… Continue reading Carlton May Buy Into Independent
Simon Geller, currently editor of Mizz magazine, is to be the new editor of Me on from October.Lansdown Conquest’s media director, Penny Logier, is leaving the agency to join TMD Carat where she will become a full board member and head one of the company’s four business units.Logier leaves at the end of September, and… Continue reading APPOINTMENTS
The Daily and Sunday Express are to launch the latest in their travel promotions on Sunday 19 September, following the Concorde promotion.Readers must collect two tokens to qualify for a ‘two for one’ flights promotion with Air UK.Mail Newspapers is bringing back the National Lottery Game, offering readers the chance to win up to £100,000.… Continue reading Newspaper Promotions
Last night Dame Shirley Porter, LBC’s chairman, told a public meeting called to save LBC that it would not mount a legal challenge to the Radio Authority’s decision to remove its licence. Instead LBC will bid for one of the new FM frequencies to be advertised next year by the authority.A judicial review would take… Continue reading LBC TO BID FOR NEW LICENCE
Batchelors and Virgin 1215 have joined up in a promotion for Batchelors Cup-a-Soup, in which Virgin receives branding on 16 million Cup-a-Soup boxes, while Batchelors will receive promotion during Kevin Greening’s lunch time programme.Greening will ask listeners to name where they would most like to drink a mug of Cup-a-Soup; the winner will have the… Continue reading Batchelors And Virgin In Joint Deal
The Radio Authority has released details of the 17 applications for the 2 ILR licences in Manchester. There were 11 aplications for the licence on the FM waveband only and 4 applications for the Am licence only. 2 bidders applied for both the FM and AM licences; (Newsline 9/9)Applicants For AM & FM Licence:Greater Manchester… Continue reading Manchester ILR Licence Applicants
Simon Geller, currently editor of Mizz magazine, is to be the new editor of Me on from October.Lansdown Conquest’s media director, Penny Logier, is leaving the agency to join TMD Carat where she will become a full board member and head one of the company’s four business units.Logier leaves at the end of September, and… Continue reading APPOINTMENTS
