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
The Advertising Association has revealed that total advertising expenditure in the UK in 1996 amounted to £11.99 billion; a year-on-year increase of 9.2% or 6.7% in real terms. This is the fifth consecutive year of increase at constant prices since the two-year decline of 1990 and 1991.More money was spent on advertising, in real terms,… Continue reading Adspend At Record High
MTV Networks Europe will launch its UK version of the channel into over 6 million cable and satellite homes across the UK and Ireland from July 1 (see New MTV Channels Announced).The new channel, tailored for a UK audience, will feature British presenters, new shows and the first phase of a redeveloped on-air identity. There… Continue reading MTV UK Launches Next Month
Following an uncertain start and several postponed launch dates, the youth orientated cable channel, Rapture promises to be hitting screens within the next month. The channel is now advertising for senior production staff, which adds weight to this claim.Rapture: 0171 287 0097
The demand for newspapers in the five largest economies (the USA, Japan, Germany, France and the UK) is falling, according to Zenith’s World Press Trends 1997 report in collaboration with the World Association of Newspapers.The report goes on to say that newspapers are losing their share of advertising markets, principally to television, while circulations are… Continue reading Zenith Report Highlights Demise Of Newspapers
Alan Watson has been appointed general manager of NTL’s broadcast television business. Watson will be preparing the company for the digital era. He returns to NTL from News Digital Systems.NTL: 01962 822 582
