IPC Magazines has created a separate merchandise licensing division in order to develop a brand extension licensing programme for its key titles.Intellectual property director, Rebecca Miskin, commented: “As a licensor, IPC Magazines is in the enviable position of being able to offer licensees the opportunity to work alongside some of the industry’s most respected brands.”… Continue reading IPC Magazines Creates Merchandise Licensing Division
Redwood Publishing announced this week that it is to launch a new specialist catalogue agency called Red Cat. The agency will help high street retailers and other companies to design and produce catalogues with creative branding and customer focused editorial.Redwood is joining forces with catalogue specialist Gordon Ellis-Brown for the venture. Gordon Ellis Brown has… Continue reading Redwood In Joint Venture To Create Red Cat Catalogue Agency
The commercial radio group GWR announced this morning that it has offered £25.6 million for the entire share capital of Orchard Media. Orchard owns and operates the four independent radio licences of Orchard FM, Lantern FM, Westward Radio and Gemini FM. According to reports, the Orchard Board of Directors believed the offer to be in… Continue reading GWR Offers £25.6 Million For Orchard Group
The Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) this afternoon announced its improved format and new data for its six-monthly concurrent figures for consumer magazines.There is to be a new distinction in the data between ‘actively purchased’ and ‘non-actively purchased’ titles. Actively purchased refers to copies where the recipient has made a conscious buying decision, retail sales… Continue reading ABC Announces Changes to Its Data Format
The Broadcasting Standards Commission (BSC) has denounced the late night erotic dramas shown on Channel 5 as eroding the standards of UK television. In statement issued by the Commission today, C5’s Compromising Situations and Hotline series were described as a step change in the use of sex on British television.The BSC is concerned that the… Continue reading Channel 5 Erotic Dramas Criticised By BSC
The Channel Four board has had two new members appointed to it by the ITC, Barry Cox and Robin Miller. Barry Cox is a former director of the ITV Association, and Robin Miller is chairman of Emap. The Radio Times is to sponsor the BAFTA Television Awards for the next 3 years. This year’s awards… Continue reading Newsline Brief
A bidding war for a merger with the Mirror Group is expected to fire up following the resignation yesterday of chief executive, David Montgomery (see Possibilities For Mirror Group).One potential bidder, Trinity International, has said that it is waiting ‘for the dust to settle’ after the boardroom wrangles which dogged the Mirror Group in recent… Continue reading Bidding War Expected To Surround Mirror Group
Capital Radio released a trading statement today, revealing that ad revenue has increased year on year for the first four months of the financial year that began on 1 October 1998. Although business in its restaurants has seen a downturn ‘in line with consumer spending’, its interactive business is enjoying increased viewing, with sales revenues… Continue reading Capital Radio Sees A Growth In Ad Revenue
The Independent Television Commission (ITC) has issued formal warnings to three of its licensees for breaches of its programme code.Zee TV, the Asian television channel, was reprimanded for ‘undue prominence’ for products or services in programme time. One of the channel’s programmes included promotional material for a number of businesses, including contact details. Zee TV… Continue reading ITC Formally Warns Three Television Channels
