Perspectives on Architecture is a new magazine launching next March in association with the Prince of Wales’s Institute of Architecture and Wordsearch Publishing. It will cover architecture, arts, crafts, house decoration, landscaping and green issues.The monthly A4 title will have a cover price of £2.50 and an initial print run of 40,000. The magazine’s contributors… Continue reading Perspectives On Architecture Launch
According to an unconfirmed report in today’s Media Week GMTV are planning to set up 4 macro regions to sell both regional and national airtime. The regions under discussion are:Scotland and northern England Ulster Midlands and HTV SouthernThe move towards regional business is said to be a result of GMTV’s poor audience figures, which are… Continue reading GMTV – Macro Sales Regions?
Omnicom is to pay £15m for a 9% stake in Aegis, the Carat parent company. The move is part of a major refinancing package designed to raise more than £60m of new equity. Omnicom claims that the deal has no implications for The Media Partnership, its European joint venture with WPP, although TMP and Aegis… Continue reading Omnicom Takes Stake In Aegis
Virgin is revamping its weekend schedule and moving the Virgin-Labatts album chart from its Sunday afternoon slot. From this Saturday the album chart will go out at 1pm, directly after the Nescafe Big Red Mug Show.Announcing the changes John Revell, joint director of programmes, said “The chart show move will enable us to consolidate on… Continue reading Virgin Revamps Weekend Schedule
A management buyout is expected to be concluded this week between the WPP Group and its US agency Fallon McElligott. The latter will buy itself independence in a deal thought to be worth £10m.
The Newspaper Society has criticised proposals by the Lord Chancellor to create a new civil law of infringement of privacy.The NS criticises proposals in the consultation paper as being unclear and unworkable, and if made law it “could stop regional newspapers’ investigation and revelation of matters of legitimate interest to their local communities”. The Society… Continue reading NS Condemn Privacy Proposals
Chief executive of Channel Four Michael Grade told the heritage select committee yesterday that the government should protect more sporting events from being grabbed by subscription-only satellite channels. Events such as the Grand National and Wimbledon were in danger, he said, as he gave evidence in the committee’s enquiry into the BBC’s future.Grade also warned… Continue reading Grade Speaks For Public Access Sport
The Advertising Association sponsored a debate on Monday night in the House of Commons. The motion was “This House believes that the imposition of VAT on the printed word will inhibit the UK’s recovery from recession”.Arguments for the motion were made by Lord Beloff and Bill Cash MP with rousing support from the floor from… Continue reading AA Debate VAT On Press
The Daily Telegraph and Independent have entered into the price war initiated by News International, when it slashed the cover price of The Times to 30p. The Telegraph is handing out coupon books, which entitle readers to a half-price copy of the paper for 2 weeks, and the Independent is offering readers their money back… Continue reading Telegraph/Independent Price Promotions
Revenue for September, based on agency estimates, came in with a combined ITV/ C4 revenue of £166.335m – an increase on 15% on September 1992.Channel 4’s revenue came in at £29.5m, which represents 17.7% of the total and continues the slight downturn in C4’s performance in recent months. ITV’s revenue was estimated at £136.88.In terms… Continue reading TV Revenue And Shares – September
