TalkCo, the group set up by Kelvin MacKenzie to buy Talk Radio, has finally settled a price with the station’s owners CLT-UFA, it has just emerged. The protracted discussions between the two groups (see Speculation Surrounds Future Of Talk Radio) have been over the final value of the station which today has been settled as… Continue reading TalkCo Settles With CLT On Price For Talk Radio
TalkCo, the consortium led by Kelvin MacKenzie which is poised to buy Talk Radio, is understood to have agreed a price with Talk’s owners CLT-ufa. It believed the station has been valued at around £25 million. Bob Guccione Jnr, publisher of US men’s magazine Gear, has said that there are plans to launch a UK… Continue reading Newsline Brief
www.dome2000.co.ukVery few people, at this late stage in the century, will allow us to forget that the new millenium is approaching. We can consider ourselves well into the eve of the dawn of the year 2000 – already we can see numerous pop stars preparing to cash in on the turn of the century with… Continue reading Website Of The Week – Dome 2000
Awareness of digital television is increasing, especially amongst those people who own hi-tech equipment, say the results of GfK’s second survey on digital television awareness.A repeat of the first survey carried out by GfK in August (see Newsline), it shows that overall awareness of digital TV has increased by 7.4% during the month to 82.3%.… Continue reading Digital TV Awareness Is On The Increase, Says GfK
The BBC has awarded the WPP Group, IT company Bull Information Systems and the Post Office contracts to collect its £2.1 billion annual licence fee income.A value has not been placed on the deal by the parties involved, but it is believed to be worth around £500 million over the seven years of the contract.BBC:… Continue reading BBC Awards Licence Collection Contract
BSkyB has today released the number of shares lined up in favour of its takeover offer for Manchester United Football Club (see Newsline). Yesterday (Monday 26 October) at 3pm was the first closing date of the Offer.BskyB has either received valid acceptances in respect of, acquired, or agreed to acquire a total of 115,848,905 Manchester… Continue reading BSkyB’s Club Bid Gains Support
Channel 4 has announced that it is to appoint David Buonaguidi creative director, to replace Ceri Evans.Buonaguidi is the former creative director of St. Luke’s advertising agency, and he takes up his role at Channel 4 later this year. He will provide both strategic and creative direction to both the in-house and external teams involved… Continue reading New Creative Director At Channel 4
BBC Sport has announced that it has won the rights to screen British athletics until the year 2004. UK Athletics 98, the new governing body for British athletics, has concluded a major deal with the BBC, thought to be worth around £17.5 million, for year round athletics coverage on radio and television.The agreement includes new… Continue reading British Athletics Comes To BBC
Following the success of A2Btravel.com, EMAP Online is to launch a new travel website which it claims will be ‘the biggest and most detailed online database’ about UK and Ireland airports.A2bAirports.com has information about 40 airports throughout the country including flight times, holiday availability, directions, maps and contact numbers. The site is published in association… Continue reading EMAP Online Launches Airports Travel Site
The all-sport newspaper Sport First is launching a new advertising and PR campaign aimed at Premiership football fanzine readers.The Sunday publication, which recently experimented with an additional Monday edition which was unsuccessful (see Newsline), is the only national to feature fanzine-style reports of matches.The advertising campaign begins this month with the catch-phrase: “We put football… Continue reading Sport First Pushes Forwards
