BT and its US partner MCI have announced the world’s first high-speed, high-reliability global Internet “backbone” network.The new service, called Concert InternetPlus, will combine the substantial existing Internet networks of the two companies into eight new regional Internet “superhubs”. It is planned that these will expand within a year to a total of 20 hubs… Continue reading BT To Launch First Global Internet Network
The ITC has received nine complaints regarding ITV’s Saturday evening show Man O Man in which an audience of three hundred women assess ten men on their looks, personalities and talents. The complainants, who were mainly men, believed that the programme was degrading to men and would not have been allowed if the sexes of… Continue reading Men Find Man O Man Offensive
After less than seven days on-line the Exchange & Mart Internet site is claiming 86,349 hits. (This is for the period 12pm on 3.6.96 to midnight on 10.6.96).The logging information also reveals that Exchange & Mart surfers had better things to do than watch England v Switzerland last Saturday, as the busiest time that day… Continue reading Exchange & Mart Web Site Claims Over 86,000 Hits In First
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David Newell will become the new director of the Newspaper Society when Dugal Nisbet-Smith CBE retires from the post in March 1997. Mr Newell has been deputy director of the Newspaper Society since 1992 and head of government and legal affairs since 1984.Newspaper Society: 0171 636 7014
The BBC has announced plans for a major reorganisation of its management structure in order to ‘address the strategic challenges of the digital age’. The plans will allow the the BBC to strengthen its existing channels and create additional digital services for the licence payer.At the heart of the new structure is the separation of… Continue reading BBC Restructure to Address the Digital Age
BSkyB announced today that it has signed a five year TV agreement with the Rugby Football Union worth £87.5 million. The deal gives BSkyB exclusive live television rights to all international, representative and club matches played under the RFU in England for the five seasons commencing 1997/98.Part of the deal allows terrestrial broadcasters to show… Continue reading BSkyB Signs Rugby Deal Worth £87.5m
The Daily Telegraph and The Independent have both entered a summer price war with The Times by offering cut-price editions for certain days of the week.Despite a Leader which described 10p as a “fair reflection” of The Times’s value, The Independent has now decided to offer vouchers which will reduce its price on Mondays and… Continue reading Newspaper Price War Hots Up
Reebok International has announced its sponsorship of the Manu Samoa rugby team. The deal will be a four-year partnership taking the Western Samoans through to the 1999 Rugby World Cup.Reebok will provide the team with their official playing kit, casual and training apparel, boots and a range of other accessories. The signing of Western Samoa… Continue reading Reebok In Rugby Sponsorship Deal
The May national newspaper ABCs, released today, show the Daily Mail and Daily Star recording the highest circulation increases in terms of actual change. At the other end of the scale the Sunday Express continues to decline, once again showing the largest drop in circulation on the previous month.Daily Newspapers Apr-96 May-96 %Ch Actual Ch… Continue reading May ABCs – Daily Mail And Daily Star Record Highest Increases
The digital television alliance between Bertelsmann, Canal Plus, Havas and British Sky Broadcasting has collapsed according to reports in the national press, although BSkyB would not confirm this when MediaTel spoke to them earlier. Bertelsmann said on Wednesday that BSkyB, controlled by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation, had unreasonably pulled out of the deal.Canal Plus and… Continue reading Murdoch Digital Television Alliance Appears To Be Crumbling
