A date has been announced for the closure of the Lifestyle channel, owned by ETN, the company responsible for the recent merger with Screensport (Newsline 14/1). At 3.00am on 25 January the channel, along with The Lifestyle Satellite Jukebox will come off air, giving its transponder (Astra Transponder No. 5) to the German service, Vox.Chief… Continue reading Lifestyle Expires On January 25
A date has been announced for the closure of the Lifestyle channel, owned by ETN, the company responsible for the recent merger with Screensport (Newsline 14/1). At 3.00am on 25 January the channel, along with The Lifestyle Satellite Jukebox will come off air, giving its transponder (Astra Transponder No. 5) to the German service, Vox.Chief… Continue reading Lifestyle Expires On January 25
Publishing director of Good Housekeeping, Joan Barrell is to retire in June and will be replaced by Liz Kershaw, Publisher of Harpers & Queen.Barrell will remain with the company in the role of Magazine Development Consultant. Esquire Publisher Jamie Bill replaces Kershaw at Harpers and Queen, and John Wisbey, currently the title’s Ad Director, is… Continue reading Shake-Up At National Magazines
Caroline Richards has been dismissed from her post as editor of Best, after sales have continued to drop. Sue James has been appointed her successor.
CIA has acquired Blufin, parent of Italy’s largest media independent. The deal involves a share swap in which Blufin shareholders receive a 10% stake in CIA.The move marks the first step in CIA’s plans to acquire equity interests in European media operations.
“You won’t hear Freddy and the Dreamers but you will hear Neil Young. Virgin Radio is a station for people who grew up knowing the difference between good music and the rest and who still listen to it today”. This is how Richard Branson described his soon-to-be-launched Virgin Radio, which revealed itself to the press… Continue reading Virgin Promises ‘Much More Music’
The Periodical Publishers Association will this month publish what it believes to be the correct way to produce an ‘advertorial’ to ensure that magazine readers are aware that what they are looking at is an ad, not a feature.Firstly the PPA will suggest that the word ‘advertorial’ be replaced with ‘promotion’ or ‘advertisement’ to make… Continue reading Advertorial Guidelines From PPA
“Recession continues to hit industry advertising revenues” says Sir Derek Palmer, chairman of Yorkshire-Tyne Tees Television after the announcement of the channel’s profits yesterday. Although an increase of 23% from £13.1m to £16.1m was revealed it is likely that newly merged YTTTV will see yet another spate of redundancies this year following the loss of… Continue reading YTTTV Profits Increase
The British Athletics Young Athletes League has signed a two year sponsorship deal with McDonalds worth £2m. This will be the first time that the US fast food chain has been involved in a sponsorship contract of this kind in the UK as it will include televised event sponsorship on both ITV and Channel 4.
“You won’t hear Freddy and the Dreamers but you will hear Neil Young. Virgin Radio is a station for people who grew up knowing the difference between good music and the rest and who still listen to it today”. This is how Richard Branson described his soon-to-be-launched Virgin Radio, which revealed itself to the press… Continue reading Virgin Promises ‘Much More Music’
