The Yorkshire Evening Post has relaunched, with new supplements and more colour. New classified and TV sections will be in the relaunch. Among the changes are an improved week-end magazine and the Midweek supplement highlighting leisure pursuits.The Post’s research revealed a potential audience amongst the family audience and especially women. A new type face was… Continue reading New Look For Yorkshire Evening Post
Chairman and chief executive of Westminster Press, Hew Stevenson is to retire before his 56th birthday in December. He will be succeeded by Stephen Hill, current managing director of the group’s Oxford division.
RevenueThe combined ITC/C4 revenue for March, based on agency estimates, came in at £166.55m, an increase of 6.1% on last year. The ITV only figure was £130.17m, up 4.3% year on year, and the Channel 4 figure was £36.38m, up 12.8% on last year. This is a 78:22 split, consistent with last month, but C4’s… Continue reading Television Round-Up – March
Michael Grade last night appealed to the government to change the bidding rules for Channel 5 to prevent Rupert Murdoch moving into terrestrial television. Mr Grade was speaking at the British Journalism Review’s fifth anniversary celebration in London. This comes after Labour’s call, yesterday, to change the current legislation on media ownership.
News International has created two new positions with responsibility for marketing, sales, circulation and advertising of its broadsheet and tabloid titles. Clive Milner is appointed general manager of The Sun, News of the World and Today. Chris Mabury has been appointed as general manager of the Times and Sunday Times.
The television network NBC, and the Mirror group consortium have withdrawn their bid for the Channel 5 licence, less than a week before applications are due to be submitted.NBC are believed to have made the decision to pull out after deciding that the undertaking was not feasible. NBC’s withdrawal now means that the Mirror group… Continue reading Mirror And NBC Pull Out Of C5 Bidding
Localism, and local newspapers, will thrive in the digital world of the information superhighway. Richard Block, planning director at JWT, told the Newspaper Society’s annual Advertising conference in Newcastle that the battle was about to commence between the global and local for the consumer’s attention in every media.“Globalism is already out there in the form… Continue reading Local Newspapers Set To Thrive
The Labour Party yesterday condemned the process for allowing bids for Channel Five. Chris Smith, Labour’s national heritage spokesman, criticised the government for using existing rules when new regulations are being finalised for cross media ownership.Although Mr Murdoch was not mentioned by name, the fact that the old rules allow BSkyB, the satellite venture 40%… Continue reading Channel 5 Process Condemned By Labour
A television commercial for McDonalds in which a young boy engineers a meeting between his divorced parents, recieved 60 complaints from viewers. An Independent Television Commission report said that complainants objected to the “exploitative use” of the “emotive issue of a childs attempt to reconcile his parents”Some complainants were also concerned that the material might… Continue reading Complaints Recieved Over McDonalds Ad
Channel 4’s Red Light Zone broadcast from 11pm to late has more than doubled overall ratings, with male viewers aged 16-34 tripling in size. Channel 4’s share of viewing all day Saturday is up 15.5% year on year, with Red Light Zone programmes accounting for nine out of ten of the top rating TV programmes… Continue reading Channel 4 Late Night Success
