A lot of ‘special’ programmes on television this week, even if the content of the programmes themselves is nothing special. ITV decided that the best way it could get viewers to tune into their coverage of the World Cup final was to screen a 50 minute edition of Coronation Street directly beforehand.The first part of… Continue reading TV Viewing Summary W/E 12/07/98
First Press and Zone, two British publishing companies, are to be responsible for the publishing of several new football titles.Zone are preparing to re-launch the official Chelsea Magazine on 7 August, which will be a monthly publication costing £2.50. It will be edited by Dan Davis, originally editor of IPC’s Goal.In Scotland, First Press launched… Continue reading More Football Club Magazines To Launch
Adam Porter, managing editor at Loaded , is set to leave to become part of the GQ team as a freelance writer. Although Conde Nast, GQ‘s publisher, cannot confirm a starting date, he will be a contributing editor working alongside James Brown, who was his old editor at Loaded (see Loaded Editor Quits For Rival).Porter… Continue reading Loaded Managing Editor Defects To GQ
Agency estimates for June 1998 put total terrestrial TV ad revenue at £182.09 million, a fall year on year for ITV, Channel 4 and GMTV, and a continuing rise for Channel 5.ITV’s total revenue was down 6.5% to £131.04 million, C4’s fell 7.0% to £40.90 million, and C5’s reached £10.15 million, arise of 4.6%. GMTV… Continue reading TV Revenue – June 1998
Editor of The Guardian‘s Weekend magazine, Deborah Orr, has been appointed as Guardian literary editor. She will chair the judging of the annual Guardian Fiction Award, announced in December.Orr replaces Stephen Moss who will shortly become cricket correspondent for the Sporting Life.Guardian: 0171 239 9696
The Football Association has announced today that its F.A. Cup is to be sponsored by French insurance group AXA for four years. The Cup was previously sponsored by Littlewoods.The £20m association, which begins immediately, means the competition will now be called ‘The AXA Sponsored F.A. Cup’. The deal also gives AXA title sponsorship of this… Continue reading F.A. Gets Four Year AXA Sponsorship
The Radio Authority (RA) is advertising new small-scale local FM radio licences for services in the Bristol/North Somerset areas. The licences will cover Bristol, North Somerset, Bath and South Gloucestershire.The Authority anticipates awarding two licences for these areas; each licence will run for a period of eight years from the date the station begins broadcasting.Applicants… Continue reading RA Advertises Bristol/North Somerset Small-Scale Licences
The UK’s only sports-dedicated newspaper, Sport First, is switching to a tabloid format in preparation for the start of the football season.The paper, which publishes every Sunday, says that its readers prefer the tabloid shape to the broadsheet style in which the paper launched in March this year (see Sport First Set For Launch). Pagination… Continue reading Sport First Switches To Tabloid
http://www.the-planet.co.uk/This week’s website is the Telegraph‘s travel page, The Planet. There is a rather splendid schism on this site between the high quality writing by which it is characterised, and the particularly poor design which it features. Once you have gone beyond the deceptively impressive title page, this week featuring an eerie great white shark… Continue reading Website of the Week – The Planet
Agency estimates for June 1998 put total terrestrial TV ad revenue at £182.09 million, a fall year on year for ITV, Channel 4 and GMTV, and a continuing rise for Channel 5.ITV’s total revenue was down 6.5%, C4’s fell 7.0% and C5’s was up 4.4%; GMTV lost 22.6% revenue year on year.Compared to May, June… Continue reading TV Revenue – June 1998
