Associated New Media’s This Is London website (http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/) has won two awards at this year’s Yell UK Web Awards. The guide to business, news and entertainment in London scooped both Site of the Year and Best Online Publication from over 9,000 nominations.Martin Dunn, editor of This Is London, said: “This is a great honour, and… Continue reading This Is London Takes Yell Web Awards
ITV chief executive, Richard Eyre, is extolling the virtues of publicly-funded, public service broadcasting. He claims that the BBC is in danger of diluting its public service ethos, and that the Corporation should not be allowed to abandon its ‘high ground’ in pursuit of commercial competitiveness.Eyre has given a 20 page report to Chris Smith,… Continue reading ‘The BBC Is In Danger Of Diluting Its Public Service Ethos’, Says Richard Eyre
The Irish Times on the Web has received its second ABC //electronic audit for the period 3 March-2 April 1998. The website recorded 5,998,728 page impressions and 620,623 users.The site can be accessed at http://www.irish-times.com/.Subscribers can access the New Media Database by selecting “New Media” from the drop-down box at the top of this page.Irish… Continue reading Irish Times Website Receives 5.9m Impressions
Total national newspaper circulation was down by 3.1% year on year for the ABC period January-June 1998, from 27.8 million to 26.9 million. This represents a loss of 860,000 copies across the whole national newspaper market.Circulation for The Guardian is not included in these figures as the newspaper supplied ABC with data that was incorrect.… Continue reading National Newspaper ABC Summary – June 1998
Chic magazine is to be closed just months after it was relaunched by publishers Northern & Shell (see Chic To Relaunch After Two Years).The publishers claim that WH Smith is demanding trading margins which are too high to keep the magazine viable with its current circulation. Until the dispute is settled the magazine will be… Continue reading Chic To Close Straight After Relaunch
Capital Interactive, the new media arm of Capital Radio, has won the KPMG/NTL Award for technical excellence at this year’s Commercial Radio Awards.Douglas McCallum, head of Capital Interactive, says: “The award from the CRCA is testimony to the continuing creative excellence from a Capital Interactive team that has produced websites of the highest order.”The Capital… Continue reading Capital Interactive Wins Technical Excellence Award
Channel 5 has held discussions with the Independent Television Commission (ITC) to draw up a set of criteria that will be used to rent out its spare digital terrestrial frequency (see Channel 5 To Offer Surplus Digital Frequencies). It is understood that BSkyB would not be prevented from using this capacity as was mooted earlier… Continue reading Channel 5 Digital Capacity May Run Sky Sports
Latest figures from the Newspaper Society (NS) report that Britain’s regional and local press has enjoyed a rise in total advertising revenue of 8.5% to £2.237 billion between 1996 and 1997.“The AA figures tell a tremendous story for the regional press, which is outperforming the advertising market as a whole and growing at a faster… Continue reading Regional Press Advertising Shows Strong Growth
Following a public interest test, the Radio Authority (RA) has decided that the proposed takeover of London alternative station XFM by Capital Radio will be allowed to go ahead (see Capital’s Xfm Move Dependent On Watchdogs).The Authority has determined that the takeover would not be expected to operate against the public interest in terms of… Continue reading Capital Receives Go-Ahead On Xfm Takeover
As from tomorrow the offices of the National Readership Survey (NRS) have been relocated to:42 Drury Lane London WC2H 5RNTel: 0171 632 2915 Fax: 0171 632 2916The NRS website can be found at http://www.nrs.co.uk/ and is part of the Media Village (http://www.mediavillage/).
