The 1995 MTV Europe Music Awards, held on 23 November in Paris, are to be sponsored by Lee Jeans, Mitsubishi Motors, Burger King and Apple Computer.Lee Jeans is sponsoring the event for the second year running; Lee is supporting its sponsorship with a Europe wide programme of in-store promotions and competitions. For Mitsubishi Motors, the… Continue reading MTV Europe Music Awards – Sponsors
The Carmarthen Journal which is owned by Northcliffe Newspapers is to be relaunched this Wednesday as a tabloid. The Journal, Wales’ oldest newspaper has been given this face-lift after research including a poll of the readers showed that tabloid was the preferred format; the paper is also doubling its pagination from 32 to 64.Contact Liz… Continue reading Wales’ Oldest Newspaper Shapes Up For The Future
http://www.reednews.co.uk/All of the Reed Regional titles in the Lancashire group are have now launched on the net; the Lancashire Evening Telegraph and the Bolton Evening News launched last month, and now the nine weeklies have followed.Each title’s site is updated weekly and carried news from the paper. The classified ads section, motoring, property and what’s… Continue reading Reed Lancashire Group Fully On The Net
Max Hastings, the editor of the Daily Telegraph has announced he is to resign from the post which he has held for ten years and is to return to the London Evening Standard – as editor.Mr Conrad Black, chairman of the Telegraph said “Mr Hastings will continue to edit the newspaper for the time being…… Continue reading Hastings Back To Standard
It is rumoured in the national press that British Sky Broadcasting is exploring the possibility of broadcasting all English Premier League games live using digital technology.BSkyB have already signed digital contracts allowing 120 channels of television to be accessed. Sources in the industry say that the service could be available within a year.The service would… Continue reading BSkyB May Show All Premier Games Digitally
Borders On Sunday, the Sunday newspaper which was launched at the end of August has closed after just four issues.The newspaper was launched by the Chairman of Carlisle Football Club Michael Knighton just two weeks after rival newspaper Sunday News & Star came onto the market. Both papers were hoping for a circulation of around… Continue reading Regional Sunday Title To Close
Ian Scott has left Cinema Media after just two months as Sales Director; he joined from IPC’s Women’s Weeklies division.Katrina Hill, Cinema Media’s group sales and Marketing Director has now appointed Andy Williams as the director of national sales with Debbie Edinger as his deputy.… Mediacom has poached Trevor Barry, Channel 4’s group head, to… Continue reading Appointments
Initial results from research into newspaper section readership show that Sunday newspapers are, as has always been claimed, read for longer. Sunday papers take an average of 1 hour 27 minutes to read through, Saturday papers take 1 hour 11 minutes. The research shows that size of the paper is not the issue either, because… Continue reading Sunday Newspapers Read For Longer
The Broadcasting Standards Council has upheld complaints against the Radio 1’s Breakfast Show. The Council found some comments made by Mr Evans unsuitable for a breakfast audience.Two complaints concerned an offensive reference to a ‘shag’ during a skit on the television show ‘Countdown’ in the programme broadcast on 17 May. There was one complaint which… Continue reading Ooh Err Missus – Chris Evans Accused Of Smut
A new study published by CIT Research called Satellite Communications In Europe 1995, predicts that by the year 2004, nearly 9 million European households could own a digital satellite receiver.Although the future of digital terrestrial television in many countries is as yet unsettled, the study points to the potential for satellite delivered digital TV broadcasts,… Continue reading New Study Into Future Of Digital TV
