The UK’s major magazine and newspaper publishing companies are currently lining up to win a place on the council of the Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC). The ABC is garnering votes for its bi-annual elections ahead of the group’s AGM on 2 December when the new council will be announced.Whichever groups are represented on the… Continue reading Publishers Vie For Place On ABC Council
Film 4 is celebrating its first anniversary next week with the launch of a magazine for subscribers to its film channel. Film Four is to be published by Zone and contains listings for two months, interviews and information and four pages of advertising. It will be distributed free to the channel’s 160,000 subscribers. A new… Continue reading New Magazine Launches
Chief executive of Channel 5, David Elstein, and ITV’s commercial director, John Hardie, have been tipped as likely contenders for the position of chief executive of ITV when the post is vacated next year by current chief Richard Eyre. It was announced at the weekend that Eyre is moving over to media group Pearson to… Continue reading Hardie And Elstein Tipped As Possible ITV Chief Candidates
Richard Eyre, chief executive of the ITV Network, has been poached by international media group Pearson to head its TV division. Eyre is to become Pearson Television’s new chief executive in the new year, only two years after he took the helm at ITV. Since joining ITV Eyre has seen off the News At Ten,… Continue reading Eyre Departs ITV For Pearson Television
Shares in media group Pearson were boosted at the end of last week, just before the announcement that ITV chief executive, Richard Eyre, is to become the new chief executive of Pearson Television (see Eyre Departs ITV For Pearson Television). Pearson closed up 38p at 1,367p. At the same time time, Granada, a major ITV… Continue reading Sharewatch
Monday MediaTel’s weekly industry focus, Media Track, is featured in Campaign Media Business.Tuesday The Media Research Group (MRG) is holding an Evening Meeting to examine the issues of measuring digital television audiences. Paul Milsom from BMRB and John Clements and Dave Chilvers from Continental Research will be presenting to the group.A report will be available… Continue reading The Week Ahead
An in-depth study into the internet habits of adults in Britain has revealed that 27% of the population are now regular users of the net. The study, conducted by CommerceNet and Nielsen Media Research, has been sponsored by some of Britain’s leading companies and aims to give a definitive account of web usage.It has found… Continue reading More Than A Quarter Of UK Adults Are Now Regular Net Users
Shares in Reuters began to climb back yesterday after its recent falls, which saw the stock almost half in value (see Sharewatch). The information group bought back 4.7 million shares on Wednesday and press comment has further boosted its status. Prices closed up 31˝p to 569˝p.Flextech saw a leap in its prices as the pay-TV… Continue reading Sharewatch
Billed as ‘young urban thinking’, Limb by Limb magazine is the first product from Speakeasy Media, the multimedia publishing company launched by Jasper Gibson last year. It mixes highly-stylised features and articles designed to appeal to the target audience of professional men and women, aged 18-35 who live and work in London.Commenting on the launch,… Continue reading First Issue Review – Limb By Limb
