Following the hive of activity of the last couple of days as IPC Magazines was bought by venture capitalists Cinven and announced the restructuring of its management teams, chief executive Mike Matthew has confirmed his ‘vision’ for the magazine group to take it into 2000.The UK’s largest publisher of consumer magazines is planning to add… Continue reading IPC Envisages 100 Titles BY 2000
The Saturday edition of the Daily Telegraph will this weekend reveal its new look.Three new stand-alone sections will appear: Sport, Money-Go-Round and Travel will join the Weekend, Motoring, Arts & Books, TV and Radio and Young Telegraph supplements.Subscribers can access the Press Planner database by selecting “Press” from the drop-down box at the top of… Continue reading Saturday Telegraph To Launch New Look
News International has increased the cover-price of the Times‘ Monday edition from 10p to 20p.Since the cut-price copy was introduced in June 1996 the paper’s circulation has increased from 753,784 to 802,147. The financial cost of this strategy has been rumoured to be around £30 million per year.
http://www.a2btravel.com/While Condé Nast’s Traveller site (http://www.cntraveller.co.uk/) provides a wealth of editorial information, from travel articles and travellers’ personal diaries to city histories and world news stories, Emap Online’s a2b Travel is the logistical key to getting to these far-flung, exotic locations (or, if you prefer, a B&B trip to Bridlington).The basis of a2b Travel is… Continue reading Website Of The Week – a2b Travel
The cable firm consortium On Demand Management, now going under the market name of Front Row, is set to launch the cable industry’s first pay-per-view movie service next month. Having just signed a third film studio deal with Buena Vista International Television today, the group is compiling material to offer a film service which it… Continue reading Cable Consortium Seals Buena Vista Deal
Cinema admissions rose 30% in November, with average weekly admissions for the month standing at 2.26 million. Total admissions was 9.698 million, up from 7.443 million the previous year.Subscribers can access the Cinema database by selecting “Cinema” from the drop-down box at the top of this page.
The BBC and ITV have agreed a schedule for coverage of matches in the 1998 World Cup and will not be going head-to-head over England’s games.Under the deal, BBC viewers will be able to see live coverage of four of the six first round matches featuring England and Scotland while ITV will cover the other… Continue reading BBC And ITV Announce World Cup Scheduling
The Council has adopted the Directive on price indications; this obliges the indication of the price and price per unit of measure for all products, excepting only works of art, antiques, goods sold at auction and products furnished in the framework of a service. Some other derogations are permitted.
Two of Europe’s biggest players in digital TV development – the German companies Kirch and Bertelsmann – have agreed to stop selling their TV set-top decoder boxes (which can be used for receiving multiple channels and interactive broadcasts) and their digital pay-TV services until the Commission has completed an investigation into the German digital TV… Continue reading DE: Digital Wars Ceasefire
IPC has said that it will be splitting its Specialist Group into two separate publishing arms following yesterday’s announcement that the company has been sold to a management buyout team (see yesterday’s IPC Magazines Gains Independence ).The IPC Music & Sport Group will be headed by Andy McDuff, who becomes its managing director, and the… Continue reading IPC Restructures Specialist Group
