The Manchester Evening News, established in 1868, has been named regional newspaper of the year in the UK Press Gazette Regional Press Awards, which took place in London yesterday. The paper also claimed the award for daily newspaper of the year. Amongst the winners were the following: Newspaper of the Year Winner Manchester Evening News… Continue reading Manchester Paper Wins Award
Today MediaTel re-introduces its month by month monitoring of commercial minutes sold, beginning with March (four weeks).The main interest is of course with the performance of C4: Daypart Comm.Mins Hours Index* 0600-0930 602 98 88 0930-1230 288.5 84 49 1230-1730 961.5 140 98 1730-2000 556 70 113 2000-2300 657 84 112 2300-0600 798.5 99.8 114… Continue reading Commercial Minutage For March 1993
Chairman of United Newspapers, Lord Stevens, announced yesterday that he fully backs recent attempts by the Press Complaints Commission to improve press standards, believing that the media has overstepped the mark in recent years. In the company’s annual report Lord Stevens warned against statutory regulation of the press, feeling that it should be strongly resisted… Continue reading Express Chairman Voices Opinion
One third of the BBC’s 24,500 staff will be asked to take part in a Corporation survey to find out what they think of the BBC as a whole, including an investigation into management structure. The completed 28-page questionnaires will be sent to independent consultants for analysis which will be published in due course. The… Continue reading BBC Staff To Take Part In Survey
BT is to sponsor the next series of ITV’s entertainment show, Surprise Surprise, to go on air at 7.00pm on Sunday April 25.The deal will be BT’s first move into network television sponsorship and will include front, end and two sets of break bumpers credits in the hour-long show.Surprise, Surprise averaged an audience of 11… Continue reading BT In Surprise Surprise Deal
..The Nuneaton Herald & Post, now owned by Midland Independent Newspapers, is to merge with the Nuneaton Weekly Tribune at the end of April….Community Media has settled a deal with Keith Barwell to buy his four Leader titles in Ayrshire. The titles in question are the Ayr & District, Kilmarnock & District, Irvine & North… Continue reading Regional Snippets..
The Independent Television Commission met at the end of last week to discuss Tyne Tees Television’s obligations to its North East licence. The Commission has indicated that it will meet senior executives from the television company this week to “receive further clarification on editorial responsibilities and staff structures”.
Bus shelter poster contractor, Adshel, has launched three new campaign products designed to deliver specific target audiences to a range of advertisers.The new campaigns – Main Roads, London Key Locations and Local Shopping – go live from May 3, with Adshel claiming that the sites are already completely sold out for the launch period. Both… Continue reading Adshel Launches New Campaign Products
..The Nuneaton Herald & Post, now owned by Midland Independent Newspapers, is to merge with the Nuneaton Weekly Tribune at the end of April….Community Media has settled a deal with Keith Barwell to buy his four Leader titles in Ayrshire. The titles in question are the Ayr & District, Kilmarnock & District, Irvine & North… Continue reading Regional Snippets..
Although Northern & Shell has said that it is too early to reveal a first issue sales figure for its recently launched glossy, OK!, it is estimating the figure to be in the region of 400,000 on a print-run of 750,000.
