The new teenage cable channel Rapture is to have an air-time sales team based at the ITV sales house, TSMS, which will be led by former broadcast director of Initiative Marketing, Robert Ditcham. TSMS is owned by United News & Media which also has a major shareholding in Rapture.Rapture‘s programming will target the upper end… Continue reading Rapture Sets Up Sales Operation With TSMS
30 Beautiful Homes is dubbed “The magazine you’ve always wanted.” Naturally, this depends on what it is you’ve always wanted to do. On the one hand, you may wish to spend, if you have it, vast amounts of money converting and creating one of these ‘beautiful homes’ and filling it with all manner of antique… Continue reading Pilot Issue Review – 30 Beautiful Homes
The Alliance & Leicester (A&L) will launch a new Website on 24 September in order to meet the needs of its more technologically ‘switched-on’ customer base. The company acknowledges the impact the Internet will have on the personal financial sector.To make banking and finance more fun visitors can search the site for the invisible A&L… Continue reading Alliance & Leicester Launch Internet ‘Money
Spider’
BBC Family Life, which will launch on 23 October, is intended to fill what publishing director Gillian Laskier views as a gap in the market. It is aimed to appeal to ABC1 women who have primary school age children who need a magazine which has relevance to their lives. It will centre on family-related topics… Continue reading BBC Magazines Launch BBC Family Life
New Nation, a magazine for the black community, has been bought by Southnews.Southnews owns 35 papers in London and the South East and is thought to have paid £1m for the title. The company says that it envisages New Nation running as “stable-mates” with their other ethnic titles such as The Caribbean Times and the… Continue reading Southnews Buy New Nation Magazine
The Cinema industry row over the provision of admissions data to agencies appears to be nearing resolution.At a meeting last week the Cinema Exhibitors Association, which represents cinema owners, agreed to the Cinema Advertising Association’s request that more detailed regional admissions figures should be made available.In the past cinema owners have refused to give the… Continue reading Cinema Industry Near To Agreement
Following the tragic death of Diana, Princess Of Wales, much of this week’s combined ITV and BBC chart is made up of coverage of the funeral and related programmes. The BBC’s coverage of the funeral itself proved the most popular programme of the week with 19.29 million tuning in, ITV’s coverage attracted 11.71 million. Earlier… Continue reading TV Weekly Viewing Summary W/E 07/09/97
BBC Radio 1 has brought in Zoe Ball to co-host its breakfast show slot in a bid to boost disappointing listening figures. Ball, who has previously worked on the Big Breakfast and is currently co-host of Live and Kicking, will be partnering Kevin Greening, the DJ who has stood in on the breakfast show in… Continue reading Radio 1 Takes On Zoe
