John Willis, director of programmes at Channel 4, is quitting after his request to be released from his contract was agreed by the C4 board on Friday. He has secured a £500,000 severance deal.Mr Willis was a front-runner in the race to succeed Michael Grade as chief executive of the channel but was beaten to… Continue reading Willis Quits C4
Journal Publishing Company has launched three new free regional newspapers. They are the Exeter Guardian, the Leeds Times and the East Midlands Business News.The Guardian and the Business News are monthly titles while the Times is a weekly.Journal Publishing Company: 01332 292 894
A report from Merrill Lynch, which suggested that Carlton could lose around £32m as a result of the Channel 4 funding formula being scrapped, sent the broadcaster down 13p to 496.5p on Wednesday. This also affected United News & Media, which slipped 2 to 698.5p, and Scottish Media, down a penny at 633p. Granada was… Continue reading Sharewatch – W/E 29/8/97
Cable & Wireless Communications has signed a deal with BSkyB which will see it use the satellite broadcaster as its main supplier of pay-per-view programmes and channels. The move replaces CWC’s previous plans to develop its own programming services.The CWC/BSkyB agreement has also created tension in the cable industry, which in the past had always… Continue reading CWC To Use BSkyB
As a mark of respect following the death of the Princess of Wales, the launch of the Daily Star‘s MegaStar Website and the planned launch party, due to have taken place today, have been postponed. A new date is expected to be announced shortly.Today’s other media launches will go ahead: Xfm launched at midday and… Continue reading Daily Star Postpones Website Launch
Future Publishing is to launch a UK edition of sports magazines No Limits World. The new magazine will have 132 pages and will retail for £2.75. Two issues will be published in November and December before the title goes monthly in February 1998.The Editor has been named as Alison Stewart, with advertising manager being Louise… Continue reading No Limits World To Be Published In UK
A free copy of Northern & Shell’s OK! Magazine was given out free with the Sun today. This follows the other major promotion for the newspaper this year, when it was given away free in February to mark the launch of the Wednesday Lottery. It is thought that this backfired however when people spent the… Continue reading Sun Is OK!
C5’s coverage of the Newcastle/Croatia Zagreb football match on Wednesday evening attracted a peak audience of 3.380 million, which is a TVR of 6.2, according to unofficial data. This is one of the channel’s highest ever viewing figures. The game pulled in an ABC1 Men rating of 8.7 and an ABC1 Adult rating of 6.2.During… Continue reading C5 Football Notches Up 3.4m
The MRG is holding a cricket match for its members on Thursday 4th September at Evershed Sports & Social Club, Hanwell and is looking for team volunteers.The two teams will be captained by Richard Poustie, BMRB and Peter Overy, BBC Magazines. The match begins at 6.00pm.Anyone interested in playing or helping out should contact Nick… Continue reading Call To All Cricketers
JICRIT, the Joint Industry Commercial Radio IT Futures Group, has issued a guide which states its objectives and the approach it aims to take.The group, which includes representatives from the IPA, CRCA and RAB, wants to “develop IT solutions which remove the administrative burden of planning, buying and accounting for commercial radio activity” – in… Continue reading JICRIT States Intentions
