The merger between MAID and Knight-Ridder (subscribers see MAID Shareholders Approve Knight-Ridder Takeover) will see the loss of around 450 jobs at the resultant online information provider, Dialog Corporation. The group is attempting to cut its workforce by 24% in order drive down operation costs of the enlarged Dialog group. So far 70 jobs have… Continue reading 450 Jobs To Go At Newly-Formed Dialog
This week is the last week to grab the chance of winning a Nintendo 64. If you haven’t yet filled out the MediaTel questionnaire then do so post-haste in order to be entered into the draw. Good luck…
Titan Magazines is to launch a title dedicated to the extra-terrestrial beast in the Alien sequence of films. The magazine, Aliens Comic Magazine, will launch to coincide with the opening of the fourth film in the series, Alien: Resurrection. The first issue will feature a guide to all the Alien films as well as the… Continue reading An Alien Launch
Thursday Newsline interview with Capital Advertising’s group sales director, Fru Hazlett. Also, overnight viewing figures for Channel 4’s screening of Trainspotting.Friday Report from the Channel 5 And Other New Television Prospects Admap Conference. Perfect 10 magazine launches.Also this week: A TV round-up for October will appear on Newsline.
Abbott Mead Vickers (AMV) has announced the acquisition of The O’Connell Partnership for an initial cash payment of £700,000. The marketing company’s Ordinary share capital was bought by Momentum Integrated Communications Ltd., an AMV Group company. O’Connell provides marketing solutions to UK clients including Avon, Kerrygold and Next.AMV will make a series of three additional… Continue reading AMV Acquires O’Connell Partnership
A study published today by the independent Social Affairs Unit has denounced women’s magazines as all of the above. This damning indictment is the result of The British Woman Today: A Qualitative Survey of Images in Women’s Magazines. The survey was conducted by a panel of journalists and academics which came to the conclusion that… Continue reading Women’s Mags: Selfish, Superficial & Obsessed With Sex?
Tim McCabe is to join BBJ Media Services filling the role of head of radio left by the departure of Rupert Garrett (subscribers see Rupert Garrett To Join GWR). McCabe will leave his current post as press and radio buyer at The Network next month.…Stan Park has been appointed as Talk Radio’s commercial director, second… Continue reading Appointment Briefs
Upon writing, we are witnessing the aftermath, but the beginning of this TV week gave us a glimpse of the storm that was to rage through Weatherfield. Unusually, Monday’s episode of the Street proved to be the most popular, attracting 17.71 million viewers. By Friday Jim MacDonald had succumbed to the ‘green eyed monster’ and… Continue reading TV Viewing Summary W/E 09/11/97
http://www.revolution.haynet.com/The media planner’s new media reference guide is what Haymarket’s Revolution aims to be. As a natural extension from the printed title, the Revolution Website aims to provide services which it can’t do, or do as well, in the magazine. The result of this is essentially a number of databases. The site holds information on… Continue reading Website Of The Week – Revolution
Future will be publishing a new monthly customer magazine for Blockbuster, the video rental store, in February next year.The magazine will be edited by Dean Evans in addition to his duties as review editor of Future’s Total Film magazine. It will cover Blockbuster’s main product lines – movies, games and music – and will have… Continue reading Future To Produce Blockbuster Customer Mag
