In an effort to sell off Zenith Productions, Carlton Communications is planning to sell Action Time, a subsidiary of the production company, in a deal worth £6m. The remainder of Zenith is likely to be sold to management which will involve further dealings with Paramount, the US media group which has a 49% stake in… Continue reading Carlton To Sell
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Chief executive of Mirror Group Newspapers, David Montgomery, has given his word to the four banks backing the newspaper group that the Daily Mirror will keep its left stance and that he will no longer interfere in editorial matters which could shift the paper politically.NatWest, the group’s largest shareholder, fears that a change in stance… Continue reading Montgomery Promises Left Stance
LWT chief executive, Greg Dyke, came to the rescue of GMTV on Friday after the news broke that current chairman Harry Roche was resigning from the Breakfast channel, less than two months after its launch.Good Morning Television started off on a shaky foot in January but things hit an all time low last week when… Continue reading Dyke Repeats TV-Am Revival
Following last week’s revelation that Thomson Regional Newspapers is planning to counteract the effects of the recession by selling off one fifth of its free titles, it has now emerged that Midland Independent Newspapers is showing interest in purchasing the company’s Herald & Post papers.Although the group has yet to reach an agreement as to… Continue reading MIN Shows Interest In TRN Titles
The former head of sales at London station Kiss FM, John Reilly, has set up a radio sales consultancy. He is currently operating from David Knight Advertising.John Reilly: 0932 227389
Both the April and May issues of BBC Gardeners’ World will have covermounted gifts, the first of which will be a flat packed hanging basket. The cover price will increase to £1.55 from the April issue.BBC Magazines: 081 576 2000
The former head of sales at London station Kiss FM, John Reilly, has set up a radio sales consultancy. He is currently operating from David Knight Advertising.John Reilly: 0932 227389
Man to Man, a London-based company, is planning to launch a gay satellite channel in the Spring, to be transmitted on Eutelsat. No further details are available at present.Eutelsat: 010 331 45 38 47 57
Man to Man, a London-based company, is planning to launch a gay satellite channel in the Spring, to be transmitted on Eutelsat. No further details are available at present.Eutelsat: 010 331 45 38 47 57
The ITC has demanded that Teletext UK, the ITV teletext service which replaced Oracle at the beginning of the year, does more to improve the service it offers. Thousands of complaints have been lodged by viewers with regard to missing pages, insufficient news, religious and regional pages, plus the fact that the service has not… Continue reading Teletext Warned For Second Time
