Channel 4 has launched its new Spring and Summer schedule with a line-up of themed nights and dedicated seasons.All things Scouse are to be covered in the channel’s ‘A Night On The Mersey’ which will feature a curtain-raiser to the latest Brookside five-nighter in which a gas explosion threatens more lives. This starts on Easter… Continue reading C4 Schedules More Themed Nights For Spring/Summer
Broker Merrill Lynch has predicted that Capital Radio’s interim results will show an 8% increase in profits to £18.3 million. Earnings per share are expected to be up 16.4%. Merrill Lynch also predicts that Capital’s gross annual profit will reach £110.9 million by the year 2000.Radio advertising is predicted to be up 10% in the… Continue reading Capital Radio Interim Profits Predicted To Be £18.3m
Cable company Telewest Communications has been issued a formal warning from the Independent Television Commission (ITC) due to repeated failures in its compliance responsibilities for local advertisements (local avails).Contracts between a cable operator and programme supplier permit the cable company to insert local advertisements into the supplier’s programme signal. According to the ITC, in December… Continue reading ITC Warns Telewest Over Compliance Failures
United News & Media (UNM) has been granted an injunction to take the future British Digital Broadcasting (BDB) chief executive, Stephen Grabiner to court.UNM has been seeking to prevent Grabiner from working until his contract at UNM formally expires. He left the company for BDB at the beginning of the year.The injunction was granted at… Continue reading UNM To Take Grabiner To Court
The Independent Radio Group (IRG) has won a bid for a local commercial radio licence based in the Fife area. The station, Kingdom FM Radio, will play a mix of music from the 1960s to the 1990s with local news and content.The IRG holds a 20% stake in Kingdom FM.Radio Authority: 0171 430 2724
HTV West is unveiling a new logo today as part of its celebration of 30 years in broadcasting. The birthday celebrations are to include a retrospective look on the life of HTV television, which started broadcasting in 1958.In June 1997 HTV became part of United News & Media (UNM); UNM bought the regional broadcaster for… Continue reading New Logo To Mark HTV’s 30th Birthday
The Independent Television Commission’s (ITC) February 1998 Television Advertising Complaints bulletin has reported that the TV launch campaign by Computeract!ve magazine received complaints from 243 viewers.The ad showed a dog copulating with a man’s leg, apparently to allude to the ‘friendly’ nature of the magazine. Complainants felt that this was inappropriate imagery for television advertising,… Continue reading Computeractive Launch Ads Receive Over 200 Complaints
ITV achieves the highest viewing share of the terrestrial channels this week with 32.8 % of the total share and BBC1 chasing with a respectable 29.7 %.Coronation Street pulls in the crowds as usual, with an average audience figure of 16.59 million, once again pushing Eastenders into the doldrums with its average audience of 13.63… Continue reading TV Viewing Summary W/E 22/03/98
In an attempt to monitor how clumsily we deal with computers and the like, a kind of time-motion study has been set up with funding from the Economic and Social Research Council which will view technology users in their own homes. So that we are not disturbed in our natural environment, a number of cameras… Continue reading Web Round-Up W/E 03/04/98
The Mirror Group has said that it will be closing its Sporting Life title on 12 May and incorporating it into the Racing Post . It is expected, however, that the title will reappear some time in the Autumn as a general sports daily. Over 100 staff have been made redundant as part of the… Continue reading Sporting Life To Close
