H.Samuel, the country’s largest jeweller, is sponsoring the ‘Sammys’, this year’s National TV Awards at a ceremony at the Royal Albert Hall on October 8.The National TV awards were piloted last year on ITV and seek to recognise excellence in popular television, with the public voting from a designated list of nominees. The 16 categories… Continue reading H.Samuel Sponsors National TV Awards
Tomorrow sees Yorkshire Tyne-Tees Television releasing interim results, while on Wednesday the Advertising Standards Authority releases its monthly complaints bulletin. Friday sees the long-awaited relaunch of Punch by Mohammed Al-Fayed’s Liberty Publishing which bought the title in June.Features on Newsline this week will include a TV viewing summary and a report on the Commercial Radio… Continue reading The Week Ahead
NTL, the broadcast and telecommunications company, has announced a restructuring of its senior management team. The changes have been implemented to allow NTL to focus on improving service delivery and further business development.Jeremy Thorp, formerly Business Strategy & Development Director, becomes managing director of broadcast services. John Okas, previously Broadcast & Telecoms Director, becomes managing… Continue reading NTL Looks To The Future
Sky Sports first live premiership match of the season, which featured the debut of Italian star Gianluca Vialli for Chelsea against Southampton, attracted an audience of 1.11 million people. This is slightly higher than the opening match of last season between Arsenal versus Middlesborough which attracted 1.06 million viewers.Average television viewing for the week ending… Continue reading TV Viewing Summary W/E 18/08/96
Channel 4 has announced that it has reached an agreement to show live Italian football from Serie A for the next three seasons. The first Football Italia will kick off on Sunday September 8 in its regular weekly slot of 1.15pm.The deal means that Channel 4 is the only terrestrial channel to show live coverage… Continue reading Channel 4 Keeps Hold Of Italian Football
October sees the launch of a further BT customer magazine – BT Talking Business. Published by Redwood Publishing the magazine will have an estimated circulation of 250,000, being sent to all ‘medium sized’ BT business customers.The magazine will cover articles on communications and management business – with a telecommunications bias; and will be in the… Continue reading Further BT Magazine Launch
Emap Elan have launched a preview issue of their new title Minx, bound to this fortnight’s copy of More. Aimed at women aged 18-24, it claims to be ‘less patronising’ than other young women magazines and will try not to be a ‘cut-price therapy centre’.In terms of editorial the magazine seems to follow the same… Continue reading Minx – Preview Issue Review
Channel 5 Broadcasting has today announced that David Elstein is taking over as Chief Executive Officer. He will join the Board with immediate effect and take up his new role on September 16. He has left BSkyB, where he was Head Of Programming since January 1993, to take up the post. Ian Ritchie, the former… Continue reading Elstein Moves To C5
According to the latest Independent Television Commission (ITC) report, cable television penetration has reached its highest rate ever for a July quarter, up 0.3% to 21.3%, in what is traditionally a poor season for TV viewing.Cable service penetration – homes which take either TV or cable or both – remains just above 30% at 30.3%,… Continue reading Record July Figures For Cable TV Penetration
Passengers waiting at selected bus stops around London will be able to listen to live ten minute broadcasts of Virgin 105.8 FM. Virgin Radio and the advertising company, More O’Ferrall Adshel, have joined together in a campaign to cover 250 bus shelters with Virgin Radio branding.The shelters will be covered in a bright red, yellow… Continue reading Virgin Brings Music To Bus Stops
