One hundred and forty magazines have been shortlisted for the Magazines ’93 awards and final judging is due to take place on March 30. Winners of the awards will be announced on May 4 at the Periodical Publishers Association gala dinner. Nominees include Cosmopolitan for International Magazine of the Year (consumer) and newcomer BBC Music… Continue reading Shortlist For Magazines ’93 Awards
The Radio Authority yesterday awarded the regional Independent Local Radio licence for the Severn Estuary area to Galaxy Radio, which currently holds a licence for Bristol. This is the first of five regional licences which the Authority intends to award this year and it will come into operation after September 1 1994. Other stations bidding… Continue reading Galaxy Radio Wins Regional Licence
The Independent Committee for the Supervision of Standards of Telephone Information Services (ICSTIS) has called on the ban of sex-line ads which appear in national newspapers such as the Daily Star and the Sport, which makes an average of £2.5m a year from sex advertising.The proposal suggests that such ads should be limited to top… Continue reading Sport & Star Threatened By Sex Ad Row
Channel 4 is forsaking its individuality and selling out for the sake of popularity, according to recent research carried out by Scottish TV, which followed and analysed C4’s schedule for a week, beginning February 1st. According to the study 41% of the total week’s schedule was made up of imported programmes in comparison to ITV’s… Continue reading Is Channel 4 Selling Out?
The Sunday Times has confirmed that it is relaunching its Style and Travel section as a tabloid from the April 18 edition, with editor Andrew Neil claiming that he is aiming the new version more towards the female market. The section will be made up of 32 pages and is hoping to put pressure on… Continue reading Further Changes At Sunday Times
The ITV Network is moving to ITN headquarters at Gray’s Inn Road at the beginning of June, it has been revealed. The news supplier has been suffering financial difficulties because of the long term lease agreement.
Cost cuts being initiated by Mirror Group chief, David Montgomery, have resulted in the resignation of a number of journalists and other staff at the newspaper headquarters. 36 employees have left or been sacked since Montgomery’s appointment but in his favour the share price has risen from 49p last summer to a high of 106p… Continue reading Cost Cuts At MGN Cause Resignations
Secretary for National Heritage, Peter Brooke made it clear yesterday to the committee examining the Freedom Of the Press Bill that he refuses to support the setting up of an independent press body to monitor press behaviour.
The ITV Network has settled a deal with Granada Television to keep top-rating soap Coronation Street after threats to sell to BSkyB because of low payments. Having met last week to discuss the issue the network is believed to have offered an extra £1.4m a year to keep the soap, on top of the current… Continue reading ITV Settles Deal For Street
At last night’s MRG meeting speakers from BARB, Continental Research & Carat UK all spoke about satellite and cable universes – looking at how figures were currently arrived at, and what they thought the future held.Bill Meredith from BARB looked at each of the base methods used by the three companies producing estimates; BARB, Continental… Continue reading MRG Meeting – Satellite Universes
