Bartle Bogle Hegarty was presented with the ITV Award for Best Commercial of The Year last night at the Golden Arrows Awards, for its Levi Strauss advertisement “The Swimmer”.Other agencies awarded include BMP for the Barclaycard campaign starring Rowan Atkinson, GGT for Red Rock Cider and Young & Rubicam’s Fosters advertisements.
QualitiesThe 6-monthly ABCs for September-February’93 show mixed fortunes for the quality national newspapers. As with last month’s figures the Sundays fared better than the dailies, with all but the Observer increasing sales year-on- year.The Independent on Sunday’s circulation rose by 7.9% to 407,771. However, it is still firmly rooted at the bottom of the quality… Continue reading National Press Round-Up – February
The Periodical Publishers Association welcomed today’s decision by Norman Lamont not to add 17.5% VAT to magazines and newspapers. A spokeswoman for the Association believes that the Government heeded its warning not to jeopardize the publishing industry, realising the devastating effect it would have on jobs within the sector.The Newspaper Society, the association of the… Continue reading PPA Welcomes Chancellor’s Decision
Managing director of Tyne Tees Television, Ian Ritchie is to leave the company this week following allegations that Yorkshire TV is considering closing down all Tyne Tees operations. Ritchie will be replaced by John Calvert who is currently group director of personnel with the company.
According to BARB overnight figures, Comic Relief achieved an average adult TVR across the evening of 14, compared to ITV’s 11. At its peak BBC1 achieved adult TVRs of 25 for its showing of ‘One Foot in the Grave’ (22.30), which is an increase of 4 TVRs on Children in Need’s peak of 21. The… Continue reading Comic Relief
Following Friday’s announcement that Eldorado will cease in July, head of BBC1, Alan Yentob is considering replacements including the possibility of turning Casualty into a twice-weekly soap. The BBC, meanwhile, is redesigning its television news bulletins in an attempt to compete with cable and satellite rivals.
Saturday saw The Times replace its Review section with The Times Magazine, described by the paper itself as having a “strikingly original design and format.”Readers expecting a glossy supplement similar in style to the Sunday Times Magazine would have been disappointed. Like the review section it has replaced it is stapled newsprint, slightly smaller than… Continue reading Times Magazine Launch
Managing director of Tyne Tees Television, Ian Ritchie is to leave the company this week following allegations that Yorkshire TV is considering closing down all Tyne Tees operations. Ritchie will be replaced by John Calvert who is currently group director of personnel with the company.
..Tindle Newspapers announces the buyout of the Recorder Group of free newspapers….. Keith Barwell’s Herald & Post Group buys two more TFN titles, the Bedford and the Milton Keynes Herald & Post….. The Rugby & Leamington Evening Telegraphs to reveal revamped editions including four extra pages of news….. Chief executive of the newspapers division of… Continue reading Regional Snippets..
Following Friday’s announcement that Eldorado will cease in July, head of BBC1, Alan Yentob is considering replacements including the possibility of turning Casualty into a twice-weekly soap. The BBC, meanwhile, is redesigning its television news bulletins in an attempt to compete with cable and satellite rivals.
