The Mirror Group has made an offer of £297 million for Midland Independent Newspapers. The offer of 210p per share represents a premium of 41% to the mid-market closing price on 16 June 1997, the last dealing day before the announcement was made by MIN. The offer is subject to the consent of the Secretary… Continue reading Midland In The Mirror
IPC Magazines’ Family Circle is joining Reed Elsevier’s trade-title Supermarketing to play host to this year’s Quality Food & Drink Awards.IPC: 0171 261 6575.
A report by Datamonitor into the European networked games industry predicts that combined online merchandising and advertising revenues will outweigh income from subscription and usage charges by the year 2001.Datamonitor: 0171 625 8548
For the final time in his 5 year tenure, Marcus Plantin, ITV Network Director, unveiled the channel’s new season of programmes. In an Engilish country garden setting, the attendants were crowded into a marquee for a slide-show preview of what the different ITV programme genres had to offer.The promotion centred around new dramas starring proven… Continue reading ITV Autumn ’97 Press Launch – Review
United Provincial Newspapers Ltd has taken the sales operation forThe Yorkshire Post newspaper away from AMRA. Sales for the paper will now be handled by UPN’s in-house sales division, UPN Media Sales.Richard Parkinson, UPN’s national sales director, said: “The Yorkshire Post is one of the most individual regional newspapers in the country and this move… Continue reading Yorkshire Post Moves Sales In-House
The ITC has published its May report into TV advertising complaints. The Rover 600 advertisement was found to be insensitive. The ad features a prisoner exchange in a mountainous region. Viewers had objected to the similarities of the ad’s story-line with ongoing hostage situations, particularly that of two Britons in Kashmir. The ITC upheld the… Continue reading Rover Gets A Telling Off
Jon Trowsdale has been appointed general manager of NTL Broadcast’s radio group. He will lead the group into the digital era. Trowsdale is currently product manager at Digital Audio Broadcasting. He will replace Mike Thorne who is moving over to NTL International.NTL Radio: 01962 823 464
‘The news that there was a new golf magazine on the market might possibly have caused the reaction “Excellent; just what the world needed.” I doubt it though. More likely…“Aren’t there enough of those already?” ‘ Robert Green, Editor.Such a statement admitted the first editorial of this new title, acknowledges the sense of surprise felt… Continue reading First Issue Review – Golf International
BARB is changing the current contract specification for reporting the viewing of 16-24 year olds.The current specification controls the number of 16-24 year olds for each regional panel. BARB has analysed the composition of the total population of this age group across all panels and found that the profile does not always match the Establishment… Continue reading BARB Changes Measurements For 16-24 Year Olds
BSkyB showed a very slight move upwards this week, closing on Friday at 444p, but there is no strong evidence to show that the company will make a quick recovery from its dramatic share fall. The share price has fallen over 25% in the last three weeks.Mirror Group’s shareholders seem to have welcomed the company’s… Continue reading Sharewatch W/E 4/7/97
