Yesterday saw the opening of the Financial Times annual Cable & Satellite conference with speakers including William H Roedy, chief executive officer of MTV Europe who outlined the current situation in the Pan-European market and explained ‘lessons’ they have learned at MTV about how to make it a viable business.David Hatch, advisor to the director… Continue reading FT Cable
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UK SATELLITE TELEVISIONRecently appointed head of programming at BSkyB, David Elstein set out to show how much the television environment has changed since the launch of Sky and BSB in 1989 and how increasing competition is causing a growing upheaval in the relationship between consumers and suppliers of television.He points out that BSkyB has pioneered… Continue reading FT Cable & Satellite Conference
The Government has been told that it does indeed have the power to ban the controversial pornographic channel, Red Hot Television (formerly Red Hot Dutch) according to Collette Flesch, director general of EC’s Communication & Culture units.Speaking at the Financial Times Cable & Satellite conference yesterday Flesch seemed puzzled by the Government’s efforts to get… Continue reading Government Has Power To Ban Red Hot TV
United Newspapers (UN) signed a £200m distribution contract with Northern & Shell last summer which it is now attempting to dissolve by sueing a subsidiary of its own company. UN believes that the deal is not working out according to plan and is “increasingly difficult to operate” but Northern, which is planning legal action, describes… Continue reading United Newspapers In Dispute With N&S
Yesterday saw the opening of the Financial Times annual Cable & Satellite conference with speakers including William H Roedy, chief executive officer of MTV Europe who outlined the current situation in the Pan-European market and explained ‘lessons’ they have learned at MTV about how to make it a viable business.David Hatch, advisor to the director… Continue reading FT Cable
& Satellite Conference
The Guardian & Manchester Evening News is thought to be in negotiations with Lonrho to discuss a buy-out of The Observer. The newspaper group has made bids for the paper in the past, all of which have been rejected.
Yesterday IPC announced the launch of their new mass-market weekly listings magazine, TV & Satellite Week, due for release on March 2.The new weekly full colour magazine will focus on accurate, detailed listings for cable & satellite, as well as terrestrial channels. With a total pagination of 76, each day’s viewing will have 6 pages… Continue reading TV & Satellite Week Launch
Liz Howell, director of programmes at GMTV, has resigned and will be replaced by Peter McHugh current editor of ‘The Time..The Place’ – the ITV morning chat programme. The resignation comes only three days after the appointment of Greg Dyke as chairman of the ailing station, and follows Dyke’s refusal to endorse Howell’s programming strategy… Continue reading Howell Leaves GMTV
Channel 4 and International Management Group have made a last minute £1.2m bid to host the World Chess Championship between Gary Kasparov and Nigel Short. If successful the event is likely to be held in London later this year.
Liz Howell, director of programmes at GMTV, has resigned and will be replaced by Peter McHugh current editor of ‘The Time..The Place’ – the ITV morning chat programme. The resignation comes only three days after the appointment of Greg Dyke as chairman of the ailing station, and follows Dyke’s refusal to endorse Howell’s programming strategy… Continue reading Howell Leaves GMTV
