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Match Of The Day Front Cover A new Premiership season means another season of Match of the Day on Saturday night. To coincide with the new series BBC Magazines have today launched Match of the Day magazinein an attempt to offer football fans the more intense goings on in football. The weekly magazine is priced… Continue reading Reviews: Match Of The Day, Sported!
The BBC will launch its new daytime schedule on Monday 2nd September. Alan Yentob unveiled a package which includes programmes reflecting leisure, lifestyle and consumer interests, topical issues and entertainment.Programmes include Breakfast News Extra with Juliet Morris; The Terrace, a DIY show presented by Mike Reid; cookery with Nick Nairn in Who’ll Do The Pudding;… Continue reading BBC Unveils New Daytime Schedule
Talk Radio has signed a six figure sponsorship deal with One 2 One, Mercury’s mobile phone division. The deal will feature in the football slot Mobile Phone Fans, part of There’s Only One Gary Newbon, which starts at the beginning of the football season (August 17).Talk Radio are looking to build on the success of… Continue reading Talk Radio Kicks Off With Sponsorship Deal
The 1996 European Television Symposium, to be held in November in Prague, will focus on the development of commercial broadcasting in Central Europe and the difficulties facing the sector in Western Europe.In particular the problem of developing ‘people meters’ which will effectively measure an ever more fragmented television audience will be discussed. The symposium will… Continue reading Symposium To Tackle TV ‘Crisis’
Heartland Cablevision II has applied to run the cable delivery licence for Daventry, offering service to almost 9,000 homes.Heartland, which is owned by Telecential Communications, made a bid of £7,400 for the licence which would form a contiguous area with Northampton, Northeast Northamptonshire and Rugby. These areas are currently covered by Telecential’s existing franchise.Heartland was… Continue reading Heartland Cablevision Applies For Daventry Licence
A survey analysing trends in IT broadsheet supplements has found that there is a tendency to focus on feature discussions, primarily on the Internet, rather than more technical issues. National broadsheet newspapers were selected for the survey because of their reach to senior businessmen who are thought to be less inclined to read more specialist… Continue reading Supplements Focus on The Web
On-line information provider MAID has announced that it will be setting up an International Executive Division which will supervise and drive the Group’s global strategy and development. The new division will be headed by Dan Wagner, chief executive of MAID, and will oversee activity in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific. Wagner said the move was… Continue reading MAID Announces Expansion Plans
The substantial peaktime audience lead built up by ITV during the BBC’s Olympics coverage *ITV Claims Loyal Viewers was maintained last week (5th-11th August) as the BBC returned to a normal schedule.Initial data shows that ITV’s peaktime share was over 8 points ahead of BBC1 (41.4% compared to 33.2%). ITV had an all-time share of… Continue reading ITV Claims Best Performance Of The Year
Emap Pursuit will launch a new sports magazine tomorrow, the same day that the BBC’s football title Match Of The Day makes its debut *Match Of The Day Magazine. The Emap title, called Sported!, has been rumoured since April *New Magazine Launches but, with the market becoming increasingly competitive, it has been kept under very… Continue reading Emap Launches New Sports Title