CIA Media Solutions has made a raft of new appointments as part of its management restructure. Simon Bartle, Tony Jarvis and Mick Style have all become members of the company board while Helen Whitby has been promoted from the position of research executive to research manager.…The Telegraph has made two appointments to its ad display… Continue reading Appointment News
BSkyB has announced that it will be forming a joint venture with OzEmail, an Australian Internet provider, to launch an advertising service on the Internet.Full details of the plan are expected to be announced next month though it is known that the project will deliver ad opportunities for Web sites around the globe. BSkyB will… Continue reading BSkyB To Launch Internet Ad Service
ABC figures released for October show that the Daily Express‘s revamp has made little impact on the paper’s declining circulation in the face of the Daily Mail‘s growing strength. In October the Daily Express‘s sales fell by 3.64% to 1.205 million year-on-year and though this is a slight improvement on September’s figure, the Daily Mail… Continue reading National Newspaper October ABCs
The passing of more relaxed cross-media ownership rules on Friday November 1 meant that many ITV companies experienced high prices at the start of last week.Border was up 6.5 to 310p on Monday, with the price hovering around this mark for the majority of the week. STV had risen to 733.5p during the first part… Continue reading Sharewatch W/E 8/11/96
Both Capital Radio and EMAP release their interim results today, with Capital expected to reveal a year-on-year rise despite the heavy competition in the London radio market. IPC are holding a seminar called A Feast Of Magazines on Wednesday which will look at recent develpoments in the magazine sector, focusing especially on Men’s titles.Another new… Continue reading The Week Ahead
A Videotron spokesman has told Newsline that Saturday night’s Pay-Per-View event, the fight between Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield on Sky Sports, is expected to attract around half the audience that the Bruno Tyson fight did in March * BSkyB Claims Pay-Per-View Success due to the lack of a ‘British interest’ in the fighters. Even… Continue reading Low PPV Take-Up Expected
The Radio Authority has announced that Radio 106 FM has won the new regional ILR licence for the East Midlands.Radio 106 FM will broadcast a broadly even mix of speech and melodic music targeting an audience aged 30-54 to an area which includes the cities of Leicester, Nottingham and Derby. More than 1.5 million people… Continue reading Radio 106 FM Wins East Midlands Licence
Following on from ITV’s decision to drop coverage of the event, the BBC has announced that it is to start broadcasting the Heineken European Rugby Cup. Coverage will be split between BBC1 who will show the live matches on Grandstand and BBC2 who will show highlights of the weekend’s matches as part of Rugby Special.Coverage… Continue reading BBC To Televise European Rugby Cup
Which? magazine has launched a Website on the Internet. It is a subscription-based service, with users paying £7.75 per month for full access to the site which contains all the reports from the range of Which? magazines, including Gardening Which?, Holiday Which? and Health Which?, as well as a range of Which? books. There is… Continue reading Which? Magazine Goes Online
