There is press speculation that Nynex and TeleWest, Britain’s two largest cable operators, are set to merge in a deal worth £2 billion. This was provoked by the apparent flurry of meetings between share-holders of both companies in the US. A spokesman for Nynex would not comment on the rumours.…Another press speculation is that Carlton… Continue reading Nynex And Telewest In Merger Rumours
The Department of Trade and Industry has given its consent to Northcliffe Newspapers to acquire Aberdeen Journals, following an enquiry by the Monopolies and Merges Commission.The MMC concluded that the transfer of the papers is not against the public interest. The MMC believe “that it is in Northcliffe’s commercial interests to preserve the independent approach… Continue reading Northcliffe Newspapers Cleared To Acquire Aberdeen Journals
Grampian Television’s regional coverage is the best in Britain according to local viewers in a recent NOP poll.The North Scotland station was a clear winner for programming in local news and interest, religious, political and wildlife programmes. It also took overall top spot, averaged across twelve regional programme categories in eleven mainland ITV regions where… Continue reading Grampian Tops Viewer Poll
Some more ABCs have been released. Most of the titles for July to December show losses, with the soft-porn titles Knave and Fiesta doing particularly badly. Both Heritage and Oxford Today’s figures are reported for a twelve-month period and show increases. Title Jl-Dec 94 Jl-Dec 95 %Ch Actual Change Inspirations For Your Home 82,613 87,641… Continue reading More ABCs Released
Magazine and retail representatives have agreed to develop a set of guidelines in response to Parliamentary criticism about teenage magazines.The guidelines will be drawn up initially by editors, publishers and retailers and will seek to establish benchmarks for both editorial content and retail display of magazines for young people.At a meeting with Home Office Minister… Continue reading Code To Be Developed For Teenage Magazines
TV RevenueCombined ITV/C4 revenue for January, based on agency estimates, came in at £161.98 million, an increase of 6% on last January’s figure, and up 3.9% on December. ITV’s share was 78%, or £126.8 million; C4 took £35.2m, or 22%. This represented a better month for ITV; in December C4’s share of revenue had crept… Continue reading Television Round-Up – January
Practical Photography is relaunching on 12 March (April edition). The new-look title aims to spice up the market with new sections and more news and fashion information, including interviews with top photographers.It is also hoped that the magazine will get away from its current techy image and be much more classy: it will have a… Continue reading Practical Photography To Relaunch
It is rumoured that Virgin Group is in negotiations with CinVen to sell some of its smaller cinemas.A spokesman confirmed that Virgin had been approached regarding selling some of its smaller cinemas inherited from its takeover of MGM, but would not give any further details.Speculation indicates that around 80 of the 120 cinemas would be… Continue reading Virgin May Sell Cinemas
Gruner + Jahr have released their July-December ABCs; Best is up slightly year on year, 0.2% whilst Prima recorded a loss of 11%. Focus has switched reporting periods to annual; its January to December figure was 82,068.The Bauer titles, which do not release ABCs but release own audited figures, have released a mixed bag of… Continue reading G+J, Bauer and OK Release Jul-Dec ABCs
HTV and the newly created South West Media Development Agency has announced a £150,000 joint initiative to encourage new film-making talent in the region.The scheme Western Lights, launched by HTV’s Director of Programmes in Bristol Jeremy Payne and Judith Higginbottom, Director of SWMDA, supercedes the HTV/South West Arts Film Awards, and aims to increase the… Continue reading HTV To Encourage New Film-Makers
