A group of media owners which is believed to include The Telegraph Group, United News & Media, Pearson and Loot are in discussions to launch an Internet service which would provide access to an advertising database site.Hugo Drayton, Marketing Director of the Telegraph, told MediaTel that the service would be run on similar lines to… Continue reading New Plan To Control Internet Ads
Viewers involved in the Cambridge interactive Television Trial are now able to access enhanced Teletext services. Pages from Teletext are delivered without the delay, and viewers have more navigational controls over the service. The Teletext services will be further enhanced to test a hyper-Teletext news service, with links to other services such as the Internet.… Continue reading Teletext Tests Interactive Services In Trial
Hollywood Pets, the latest in the series about the Hollywood lifestyle (the others being Hollywood Women, Kids and Men) has only managed to attract 8.83 million viewers. The other series averaged an audience of 11 million viewers.Carlton’s documentary series Police, Camera, Action has entered the top thirty programmes at number eight with an audience of… Continue reading TV Viewing Summary W/E 21/04/96
Figures released by the Cinema Advertising Association this week showed that there were more than 36.5 million cinema admissions in the first quarter of 1996, the highest figure since 1975. First Quarter Average Cinema Admissions Highest Since 1975.. Box office totals have now been released for the period.The single biggest film of the quarter was… Continue reading Seven Is Biggest Film Of First Quarter
McLean Consumer Publications is launching a new consumer-based holiday magazine entitled Holiday Shopper. The weekly title will begin publication on 23rd May and will cost £1.50. Holiday Shopper will have an initial print-run of 250,000.The Sunday Express has launched a new Sports section. Its first publication was last Sunday, the day before the Daily Express… Continue reading New Consumer Magazine To Launch
McCann-Erickson has completed the final element of its senior management restructure with the appointment of Ben Langdon as managing director and chief executive officer. Discussions between David Warden, chairman of McCann-Erickson, and Langdon, have been going on for nearly six months to bring the chief executive of Collett Dickenson Pearce (CDP) to McCann-Erickson.Optimedia has confirmed… Continue reading Agency Appointments
IPC Magazines has announced that it will be expanding its New Media Publishing department and has made several key appointments to facilitate this.Jonathan Newby is appointed New Media publishing director and will head up the expanded department. He was previously an associate publisher with the IPC Weeklies Group and then publisher within the Specialist Group.Colin… Continue reading IPC Magazines Expands New Media Department
European Media Survey (EMS), the largest and most detailed media survey amongst Europe’s 40 million most affluent consumers, has been welcomed by NBC Superchannel.Conducted as a continuous research study, EMS measures the media and lifestyle habits of upscale European adults: sampled randomly the respondents who complete the survey represent the top 6% of adults across… Continue reading NBC Super Channel To Harness EMS Results
Robin Burgess has been appointed as president of the Newspaper Society for 1996/97. He is chief executive of CN Group Ltd, publishers of newspapers in and around the Lake District. He takes over from Geoffrey Copeman, vice chairman of Eastern Counties Newspapers Group.Mr Burgess previously chaired the Society’s editorial committee and is a member of… Continue reading Newspaper Society And Observer Appointments
Kiss 100 has announced an independent production deal between its newly formed television arm Kiss TV and cable network L!ve TV. Under the 12 month contract Kiss TV will provide 4 one-hour shows to L!ve TV each week: Kiss Clubs, Kiss Music, Kiss Lifestyle and Kiss Classics.The first programme to be broadcast will be Kiss… Continue reading Kiss TV To Launch
