Virgin Television, whose bid for Channel 5 was rejected on programming grounds, has said that they believe they would have attracted the greatest audience to Channel 5. “The ITC did not share our views on what mix of programming was commercially viable. It appears they have decided on a fifth channel very similar to the… Continue reading Channel 5 Announcement – Initial Reaction
Tony Blin Stoyle, advertisement director of the Financial Times has left his position and has been appointed as planning director of FT Media as part of a reshuffle. The new position will put him in charge of investigating new media opportunities and masterminding cross media sales within the Pearson Group.David Pugh is leaving his position… Continue reading Press Departures
Television viewing for the week ending 15/10/95 has risen by 1.5% when compared to the same week last year. Commercial television has for the second week in a row managed to achieve more than 50% share of the television viewing audience (50.6%).Programmes doing well this week include ITV’s one-off drama Bliss, which attracted 9.99 million… Continue reading TV Viewing Summary
CIA Medianetwork has announced it is to merge with The Communication Counsel, which is already 100% owned by the CIA Group.The £20m billing Communications Counsel was known as WM Media until July, when CIA Group acquired it and renamed it TCC. All TCC staff and operations are to move to CIA Medianetwork’s offices, with the… Continue reading Communications Counsel To Merge Into CIA
Madame Figaro – the new bi-monthly fashion and style magazine will be launched this Sunday 29th in the Observer. Madame Figaro used to be a bi-annual title distributed free with the Guardian.The launch will be supported with a 20 second television commercial on ITV, which continues the Observers’ recurrent advertisement theme of the newspaper section… Continue reading Madame Figaro – Observer Magazine Launches
The Independent Television Commission has today confirmed it will announce its decision on the fifth national television channel, Channel 5, tomorrow. Following their monthly meeting last week no decision was forthcoming, but an extra meeting was held yesterday at which the decision was finalised.The highest bidder, UKTV, remains favourite, despite worries over high levels of… Continue reading Channel 5 Decision Tomorrow
The Office of Fair Trading has said that the Disney Channel, which has been available through BSkyB along with the two premium movie channels, must be offered on a non exclusive basis.Complaints from other cable operators led the OFT to reconsider BSkyB’s position. In letters to the operators, the OFT said the terms of the… Continue reading OFT Ends BskyB/Disney Exclusivity
ITV have acquired the rights to the European Rugby World Cup after signing a multi million pound three year deal with European Rugby Cup Ltd.The European Rugby Cup will kick off in Romania on October 31 when the home club champions Farul Contanta, entertain the French double winners, Toulouse.ITV who are already signed up for… Continue reading Euro Rugby World Cup Rights
SoapsCoronation Street is still the top rated soap opera programme for the three months from July to September 1995. The most popular episode was Wednesday of w/e 1st October which was watched by 16.4 million. Coronation Street has thirteen entries ahead of Eastenders’ highest placing for the Tuesday edition shown in the same week, which… Continue reading July-Sept 1995 Top Programmes
http://www.tcc.co.uk/TCC formerly known as The Children’s Channel has launched on the Internet. The launch was held in conjunction with the Cafe Internet last night and saw the stars of the children’s programme, Sweet Valley High, answer questions from around the country on the Internet.The TCC site, called 24-Seven, has a bright energetic feel with in-yer-face… Continue reading TCC – Net Site Of The Week
