The Independent has raised its cover price to 45p. The title, which has just had a facelift (subscribers see Changes At The Independent) previously sold for 40p before instigating a price-cut to 20p.Independent: 0171 345 2000
The Daily Telegraph has launched an online version of its free student newspaper Juiced (subscribers see Ewan Replaces Haslum At Telegraph). The Website can be found at http://www.juiced.co.uk/ and will be featured in next week’s Website of the Week.
Outdoor advertising company TDI and A.G. Barr, producers of Tizer, are launching a Tizer outdoor promotional campaign for the first time. The campaign is designed to target kids’ mums in order to promote a two-litre product of the drink. The promotion will use bus T-sides in order to achieve this.TDI: 0171 267 5695
From 5 October the London and southeast editions of The Sunday Times Magazine will include a new 24-page colour magazine called New London.Editor Paul Sullivan says the magazine will aim to reveal “the London you don’t know” by giving information on new places to go and things to enjoy as well as examining some of… Continue reading New Sunday Times Magazine Supplement, New London
CIA Medianetwork UK has announced that its managing director, Mike Tunnicliffe, has decided to leave the company. Mike Elms, CIA’s chairman and chief executive, is assuming the role of managing director with immediate effect and there are currently no plans to recruit a replacement.Mike Elms says that CIA will be using the opportunity to initiate… Continue reading Managing Director Leaves CIA Medianetwork
After much speculation Manchester United today confirmed that it will be launching its own TV channel in partnership with Granada and BSkyB.The digital channel, to be called MUTV, will be a subscription service and is scheduled to launch in Autumn 1998. It will broadcast six hours per-day in prime-time.The channel will offer live and recorded… Continue reading Man United Channel Confirmed
Agency estimates put the total terrestrial TV revenue for July at £160.320m. Of this, ITV brought in £116.25m (down 2.4% year on year), Channel 4 £36m (down 0.9%) and C5 £8.07m (down 16% on last month). GMTV’s June revenue fell 6.4% to £5.71m.Drops in ITV/C4 impacts for July were relatively uniform, with all categories experiencing… Continue reading TV Round-Up – July
Maid’s half year results to 30 June 1997 show a continued trend in increase of profits and turnover. Pre-tax tax profit is £2.0m and half year turnover increases by £4.5m to £14.0m. Quarterly revenue stands at £7.3m up from £5.1m in Q2 1996. Operating loss is cut by 59% over first quarter 1997.The company has… Continue reading Maid Plc Profits Continue To Improve
There is something gratingly trite about the opening editorial of the first issue of So in which editor Kirsty Robinson writes, “So is for women who party, work to party and shop to party… Basically it’s like this, you can never have too many girl friends, pairs of shoes or tequila slammers. They’re the rules.”… Continue reading First Issue Review – So
Capital Radio has put its 13% stake in GWR up for sale. The placing will raise around £28m for the London radio group. The move coincides with GWR’s decision to move its national sales team to one central London site alongside the Classic FM sales operation (see today’s GWR Announces New Sales Operation).Capital Radio: 0171… Continue reading Capital Sells GWR Stake
