Yorkshire Tyne Tees Television’s shares have continued to rise today following city rumours of a possible takeover bid from Granada. At 16:30 this afternoon, YTTV’s shares were at 1133, up 8 points on yesterday’s increase of 17 points.Other companies believed to be possible takeover subjects whose share prices have been rising this week include MAID,… Continue reading City Takeover Rumours
GWR has confirmed that it is also to apply for the new London FM licence currently advertised by the Radio Authority; London News Radio, 31% owned by GWR, will propose a business and sport format for the new service. Other applicants for the last London FM licence are expected to include Saga, Capital and Time… Continue reading GWR To Bid For New London FM Licence
Alan Yentob, controller of BBC1, has been appointed director of programmes at the corporation as part of last week’s reorganisation (Newsline 04/06). It is widely believed that Michael Jackson, controller of BBC2, will replace him. Also as part of the shake-up Matthew Bannister becomes overall director of radio as well as his current position of… Continue reading Yentob Becomes BBC Director
Capital Radio’s Chris Tarrant will be doing a live broadcast from the Royal Lancaster Hotel, on 15 October, to get everyone in the mood for the RAB Conference held that day. Conference breakfast will be served during the show and all delegates are invited from 7am.Chris Tarrant will also be one of the guest speakers… Continue reading Tarrant’s Breakfast Show To Start RAB Conference
The Radio Authority has awarded the new regional radio licence for the Yorkshire area to Kiss FM, sister to the radio station currently broadcasting in Manchester.The award by the Radio Authority is however, likely to cause controversy because sales for the regional station are to be handled by MSM, the sales house owned by Capital… Continue reading Kiss FM Wins Yorkshire Radio Licence
Last night’s Switzerland v Holland match broadcast at 19:30 on BBC1, attracted the second highest audience of the competition so far, 8.0 million individuals; this was a 59.4% share of men viewing.Bulgaria v Romania, on ITV at 16:30 attracted the lowest audience of the competition so far, just 4.5 million viewers. Match Channel Day Date… Continue reading Switzerland V Holland Attracts 8 Million Viewers
Classic FM, the national commercial radio station, has won two gold medals at The New York Festivals International Radio Competition. The station collected awards for Best Use of Comedy for Alan Mann’s Fantasy Footnotes and for Best News Anchor for John Brunning.The success follows Classic’s victories at this year’s Sony Awards when it won prizes… Continue reading Classic FM Wins Double Gold In New York
ITV had its best Wednesday peaktime ratings performance so far this year on June 12th, according to unofficial viewing figures.ITV claims it achieved a 47.8% share of the available audience, compared with 20.0% for BBC1 – BBC’s lowest share on any night in 1996. The success of Wednesday night was largely due to Coronation Street… Continue reading ITV Claims Top Wednesday Night Viewing
Senior executives from Britain’s regional newspaper industry have decided that the Internet definitely is an attractive commercial proposition. The Newspaper Society held a forum on future strategy which was attended by 30 senior executives from a number of publishing groups, including Johnston Press, United Provincial Newspapers, Northcliffe Newspapers and Portsmouth and Sunderland Newspapers.The forum voted… Continue reading Regionals Decide Internet Is Attractive Proposition
In a move which is no doubt related to the launch last week of G+J’s Here! (Newsline 04/06), IPC has announced that its Women’s Weeklies Group is to cut the cover price of its two flagship titles Woman and Woman’s own. Prices will drop from 55p to 30p for the June issues on sale June… Continue reading Women’s Weeklies Cut Their Price
