ABC //electronic announced today that LineOne has registered for a Web audit.Geoffrey Copeman, chairman of ABC and ABC //electronic said: “We are delighted to welcome LineOne. This reflects on the quality of our product and the desire of major international companies to use the ABC gold standard for audience measurements.”ABC: 01442 870 800
The theme park Thorpe Park is sponsoring LWT’s Weekend Show. The deal runs for 8 weeks from July 11. The new programme, produced by LWT, features Andi Peters and Emma Forbes as they travel up and down the Thames, doing celebrity interviews and running down the events of the weekend.
Carlton is launching its new web-sites, Carlton On-Line and Central On-Line on June 26.Web-surfers will be able to indulge in virtual chat in the on-line café and purchase programme related merchandise from the comfort of their own homes. There will also be the opportunity to view programme schedules and read other channel related information.Carlton: 0171… Continue reading Carlton And Central Move Into Cyber Space
Capital 95.8 FM has won the Gold medal for the Best Top 40 Format at the New York Festival International Radio Awards. This is the second year running that Capital has picked up the trophy.Classic FM also won two Gold awards; one was for its 16 part documentary series Russian Revelation and, for the second… Continue reading Classic And Capital Take Gold
Channel 4 reaffirms its distinctive remit this summer with a £47 million schedule that is asking for criticism from the Daily Mail brigade. Cutting Edge, Renegade TV and a gay zone, Queer Street are just some of the shows bound to spark controversy. This summer also sees the most substantial multicultural season in the channel’s… Continue reading Channel 4 Reaffirms Its Remit
Mike Wood, media director at JWT, and Mandy Pooler, managing director at Ogilvy & Mather’s the Network, are going to be named as the joint managing directors of WPP Media, it is rumoured. The new outfit, which will bring together the media outfits at JWT and the Network, is set to launch on January 1… Continue reading Heads Named For WPP Media Outfit
http://www.newsworld.co.ukNews World is the annual conference for people who work in the electronic news gathering industry. The site, designed and hosted by MediaTel Interactive, contains basic information about this year’s conference, the speakers, sessions and the exhibition.The conference is held in high esteem by the news industry and is known to attract influential speakers, this… Continue reading Web Site Of The Week – News World
National Readership Survey has decided to withdraw its first survey into national newspaper section readership due to anomalies being discovered in the results. It is thought that these occurred due to bias in the responses.Roger Pratt, managing director of NRS, told Newsline that a six-month second test was now underway which would run until the… Continue reading NRS Withdraws First Section Survey
Price Waterhouse’s Entertainment Media and Communication’s forecast for 1998 predicts that satellite technology will continue to grow and establish its prominence as a communications system. This casts doubt on the widely accepted belief that the future is cable.The report also forecasts that Internet television will grow in stature and the integration of TV and computing… Continue reading The Future Is In The Air
Coronation Street comes top of the chart this week, with Monday’s episode watched by 14.54 million, but overall soap of the week was Eastenders with an average viewing figure of 13.87 million. Coronation Street scored an average figure of 13.46 million over its four episodes. Emmerdale achieved an average of 10.87 million.Saturday night saw the… Continue reading TV Viewing Summary W/E 08/06/97
