The four Channel 5 bidders will discover the High Court’s decision this afternoon on whether the ITC’s decision to award the licence to Channel 5 Broadcasting was legal.The hearing, which began last week, was brought by one of the unsuccessful bidders, Virgin Television, who claimed that the ITC acted improperly towards Channel 5 Broadcasting, and… Continue reading Channel 5 Hearing Decision This Afternoon
Press rumours are continuing that TCI International, the world’s largest cable operator, is close to a deal with Sega to launch a computer games channel.The deal would be important for Flextech, the UK cable and satellite provider, which is controlled by US-based TCI. Flextech would take the rights to launch Sega games channels in countries… Continue reading Sega In Cable Deal
ITV is claiming that a special hour-long edition of The Bill helped it achieve its best Friday performance for over a year. The unofficial data released this week shows that ITV’s peaktime audience share on Friday January 19 was 55.0%, giving the channel a 35.1% lead over BBC1.The Bill attracted 14.4 million viewers and a… Continue reading ITV Achieves Record Figures
The IPA has published a book with winning papers from its Media Awards 1992-1995; it includes the Grand Prix winning paper from each year, as well as all the Category Winners from 1994 and 1995.Some of the Award-winning papers include:1995 Grand Prix: A new vision for a new media age – The Edelman Interview, by… Continue reading IPA Media Awards Book Published
Media Business Group has announced its first results since flotation last September: turnover was up 11 per cent from £44.1m to £49m and the interim pre-tax profit was 30 per cent higher at £412,000.The group has won substantial new business in the last 12 months as well as increased spending from existing clients. In the… Continue reading Media Business Success
The latest Register Meal figures show that the highest spending brand for November was Currys, with its £4.466m national press ad campaign; the second highest was Boots, spending £3.318m on tv advertising.Both Boots and Woolworths (second with a £3.228m campaign) were not in the top ten brands for last month; Boots were also not in… Continue reading Top Ten Brands – November
Cadbury’s Milk Tray is to sponsor UK Living on Valentine’s Day. The channel has a special day of programming including This Thing Called Love and Bride of the Day as well as its original programming Agony Hour, Live at Three Infatuation UK and Sex Life, all of which will be sponsored by Cadbury’s Milk Tray.Mark… Continue reading Cadbury’s Sponsors UK Living’s Valentines
Terrestrial football, in the guise of the Coca Cola quarter final match between Arsenal and Newcastle, shown live on ITV on 10th January, brought sport into the top 30 programmes for only the first time since the Wimbledon Men’s Final in July 95. The last completely domestic game shown live on terrestrial TV, which found… Continue reading Terrestrial Football Scores Well Amongst Top Programmes
A new Sunday newspaper devoted entirely to business is to be launched by the former editor of Business Age, Tom Rubython. The exact launch date of Sunday Business is being kept confidential, although press rumours indicate that it will be some time in March.A spokesman for Sunday Business told MediaTel that the paper will have… Continue reading New Business Paper To Launch
TeleWest, the UK’s largest cable communications operator, has announced its fourth quarter operating statistics.The figures show that: cable TV subscribers are up 12%, with subscribers now totalling 401,469; cable TV churn in the year was reduced by 8.1% from 52.6% in 1994 to 44.5% in 1995. 2 million homes have now been passed, representing over… Continue reading Telewest TV Subscribers Reach 400,000
