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MediaGuardian.co.uk | City | Revenues dip at Emap

2006-09-30T10:09:00.000+01:00

MediaGuardian.co.uk | City | Revenues dip at Emap: "Revenues dip at Emap

Chris Tryhorn
Friday September 29, 2006
MediaGuardian.co.uk

Media group Emap is expecting a 2% revenue decline in the first half of its financial year, the company said today.

Emap, the owner of the Magic and Kiss radio stations and magazines including Heat and Closer, said total revenues would be up 6% over the period.

But on an underlying basis, excluding the effect of acquisitions and launches, there would be a 2% decline.

The UK consumer magazine division is set to record a 1% decline, with the good performance from women's weekly titles and increases in cover prices offset by the weaker men's and automotive titles.

International magazine revenues are expected to be down 18% following difficulties at the US edition of FHM.

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MediaGuardian.co.uk | Press&publishing | IPC fills music and men's mag gap

2006-08-26T18:42:00.000+01:00

MediaGuardian.co.uk | Press&publishing | IPC fills music and men's mag gap: "IPC fills music and men's mag gap

Julia Day
Friday August 25, 2006
MediaGuardian.co.uk

IPC Media has appointed Eric Fuller as managing director of its IPC Ignite division to replace Tim Brooks, who is leaving to join the Guardian.

Mr Fuller, publishing director of Nuts and Loaded, will join the IPC board on September 18 and oversee the publisher's portfolio of men's and music magazines.

Nuts, Loaded, NME and Uncut and their digital brand extensions, including the market-leading NME.com, will all come under Mr Fuller's remit. He will report to the IPC chief executive, Sylvia Auton.

He succeeds Tim Brooks, who is to join Guardian Newspapers Limited as managing director."

FOXNews.com - Why Will 'Snakes on a Plane' Be a Hit? It's the Internet, Stupid - The Movies

2006-08-18T07:53:00.000+01:00

FOXNews.com - Why Will 'Snakes on a Plane' Be a Hit? It's the Internet, Stupid - The Movies: "Why Will 'Snakes on a Plane' Be a Hit? It's the Internet, Stupid
Thursday, August 17, 2006
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Brian Finkelstein might have just become the most popular man in Hollywood.

The 26-year-old is the marketing genius behind 'Snakes on a Plane.' But unlike most Tinseltown pitchmen, Finkelstein doesn't have a multimillion-dollar marketing budget or spend his days poring over focus group reports.

Heck, he doesn't even work for the company that is distributing the horror-thriller flick, which opens nationwide this weekend. And he won't make a dime from its profits.

Get the low-down on Tinseltown in the Movies Center

But Finkelstein may be the mastermind of what could be the biggest box office coup of the summer — one that might change the way movies are marketed forever.

Snakes. Planes. Awesome.

If you haven't heard about 'Snakes on a Plane' — and if you haven't, you must just be waking from a coma — there are really only three things you need"

BBC NEWS | Programmes | Podcasts from BBC News

2006-08-16T06:15:00.000+01:00

BBC NEWS | Programmes | Podcasts from BBC News: "
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As part of a BBC-wide trial we are offering some news programmes and highlights as downloads and podcasts.

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2006-08-15T08:02:00.000+01:00

Video Channel: "Sky News Video Podcasting
Sky News Video Podcasting

Sky News is expanding its groundbreaking video podcasting service.

Now you can get the latest video headlines downloaded to your computer, iPod or multi-media player four times per day.

We hope you enjoy this new service from the Sky News Interactive team."

MediaGuardian.co.uk | Press&publishing | Emap suspends teen mag Sneak

2006-08-10T13:39:00.000+01:00

MediaGuardian.co.uk | Press&publishing | Emap suspends teen mag Sneak: "Emap suspends teen mag Sneak

Julia Day
Thursday August 10, 2006
MediaGuardian.co.uk

Sneak
Sneak: the teen mag earned itself the nickname 'baby Heat'

Emap has suspended the publication of Sneak magazine after four years because teenagers are turning to the internet and mobile phones to get their fix of celebrity gossip.

Sneak hit the newsstands in April 2002 with its bid to tap into the teenage obsession with celebrities, earning it the nickname 'baby Heat'.

But according to a memo sent to staff by the Emap Elan managing director, Dawn Bebe, the title has been suspended with immediate effect due to the 'challenging' nature of the teen sector."

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Rome 'unites to condemn Madonna'

2006-08-04T07:17:00.000+01:00

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Rome 'unites to condemn Madonna': "Rome 'unites to condemn Madonna'
Madonna on stage in London
Madonna has defended her use of crucifixion imagery
Religious leaders in Rome have united against the mock-crucifixion featured in US pop star Madonna's latest show.

In the sequence, Madonna appears on a giant cross wearing a crown of thorns.

Father Manfredo Leone of Rome's Santa Maria Liberatrice church told Reuters news agency it was 'disrespectful, in bad taste and provocative'.

Muslim and Jewish leaders have also raised objections. Madonna performs in Rome on 6 August ahead of six further dates at London's Wembley Arena.

The 47-year-old received similar complaints during the American leg of her Confessions world tour, with one critic accusing her of 'blatant insensitivity'.

Being raised on a cross with a crown of thorns like a modern Christ is absurd
Father Manfredo Leone
The singer has defended the imagery by saying it forms part of an appeal to her audience to donate to Aids charities.

'Being raised on a cross with a crown of thorns like a modern Christ is absurd,' continued Father Leone. 'Doing it in the cradle of Christianity comes close to blasphemy.'

Mario Scialoja, head of Italy's Muslim League, told Reuters Madonna would 'do better to go home', a sentiment echoed by a spokesman for Rome's Jewish"

Independent Online Edition > Media

2006-08-02T16:38:00.000+01:00

Independent Online Edition > Media: "Popular culture: Internet killed the video star?
As it celebrates its 25th anniversary, MTV, the pioneer music video channel, is facing fierce competition from new technology. Ian Burrell reports, while Terry Kirby lists 25 of its finest moments
Published: 02 August 2006

'In my mind and in my car, we can't rewind, we've gone too far,' sang The Buggles in their hit 'Video Killed The Radio Star', the 1981 track that launched a phenomenon known as music television. A quarter of a century later, MTV is an enterprise that reaches 400 million viewers in 167 countries through a roster of presenters who collectively speak 22 languages.

Yet now that the MTV generation has grown up, the media landscape has changed in a way that would have the Buggles mastermind Trevor Horn wiping the lenses of his enormous spectacles in disbelief.

The music video most certainly has not killed the radio star - not when Terry Wogan can still command a UK audience of seven million on Radio 2, while music television cannot reach 500,000. In fact, 25 years after the birth of MTV, it is the conventional music video itself that is having to adapt to survive.

Children are increasingly demanding such content on their personal computers, their MP3 players and their mobile phones. On television, where MTV once reigned almost unopposed, the pioneer"

MediaGuardian.co.uk | Radio | Ofcom gives nod to LBC news hub

2006-08-01T22:34:00.000+01:00

MediaGuardian.co.uk | Radio | Ofcom gives nod to LBC news hub: "
Ofcom gives nod to LBC news hub

Julia Day, radio correspondent
Tuesday August 1, 2006
MediaGuardian.co.uk

Ofcom is to allow Chrysalis's London speech station LBC to create a centralised news operation in the capital for its five new regional digital radio services.

Digital News Network's five regional stations - in the north-west, West Midlands, Yorkshire, the north-east, South Wales and the west - have been acquired by Chrysalis for an unnamed sum and will be relaunched as LBC at the beginning of September.

In an agreement with media regulator Ofcom, Chrysalis has been given the go-ahead to relocate DNN to its London headquarters and produce regional news, traffic and travel from there.

Phil Riley, the chief executive of Chrysalis Radio, said that the current plan is to centralise the news service in London, after Ofcom relaxed its thinking on the location of news hubs.

It used to be the case that regional news had to be produced in the area it was broadcast, but now Ofcom has ruled that a group of local stations is allowed to operate a central news hub, distributing news material from the centre that is of interest to the separate audiences of each station.

Under the Ofcom guidelines, each station should still maintain a local journalistic "

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | UK films claim box office record

2006-07-22T05:52:00.000+01:00

BBC NEWS Entertainment UK films claim box office record: " E-mail this to a friend Printable version

UK films claim box office record

The latest Harry Potter movie topped the UK box office
British films secured a record one-third share of all cinema takings in the UK last year.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire led the way as the top-grossing British film, taking $808m (�435m) worldwide, a report by the UK Film Council said.
It was one of eight UK films to feature in the top 20 of the world's biggest grossing movies, the council said.
One in four people went to the cinema once a month and the numbers watching foreign language films also increased.
The UK Film Council said more than 200 foreign language films in 32 different languages were shown at UK cinemas.
The most popular was the German-made Downfall, about the last days of Adolf Hitler. "

MediaGuardian.co.uk | Press&publishing | Photo of 10-year-old 'terrace bigot' did not break press code, PCC rules

2006-07-20T18:01:00.000+01:00

MediaGuardian.co.uk | Press&publishing | Photo of 10-year-old 'terrace bigot' did not break press code, PCC rules: "10-year-old 'terrace bigot' pic complaint thrown out

See the picture

Stephen Brook, press correspondent
Thursday July 20, 2006
MediaGuardian.co.uk

Zoo Nazi salute pic
Zoo picture: lads' mag sad it was not a case where it was appropriate to obscure the child's face to protect privacy

The Press Complaints Commission ruled that a photograph of a 10-year-old girl making an obscene gesture while her father gave a Nazi salute did not breach its code on children's privacy.

The PCC rejected a complaint from the father of the child that Zoo should have pixellated her image because he did not grant permission for publication of the photo, which ran in the men's magazine in May with the headline 'Just like Dad'.

Zoo, owned by Emap, labelled the image of the man and his daughter making offensive gestures during last season's FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Chelsea at Old Trafford 'Terrace bigotry'.

The PCC rejected a complaint by Paschal Quigley of Isleworth, London that his daughter was ridiculed by the photograph and it was published without consent in breach of clause six of the PCC code, which relates to children."

Guardian Unlimited Film | Interviews | Natural born copycats

2006-07-15T19:41:00.000+01:00

Guardian Unlimited Film Interviews Natural born copycats: "Natural born copycats

Eight murders have been blamed on Oliver Stone's 'evil' 1995 film. He tells Xan Brooks why Natural Born Killers left no blood on his hands

Friday December 20, 2002
The Guardian

On the morning of March 6 1995, teen lovers Ben Darras and Sarah Edmondson left their Oklahoma cabin and took the highway east. In Mississippi they came across a local businessman, Bill Savage, and shot him twice in the head with a .38-calibre revolver. They then swung across to Louisiana, where they gunned down convenience-store cashier Patsy Byers, paralysing her from the neck down. Darras and Edmondson were standard American brats who loved their hard drugs and their R-rated movies. After their arrest, it was revealed that they had prepared for the trip by dropping acid and screening Natural Born Killers on a continuous loop throughout the night.
Article continues

No film in recent decades has stoked as much controversy as Natural Born Killers. No film-maker, if his critics are to be believed, has quite so much blood on his hands as its director, Oliver Stone. In the eight years since its release, Stone's picture has been confidently linked to at least eight murders - from Barras and Edmondson's wild ride, through the Texan kid who decapitated a classmate because he 'wanted to be famous, like the natural born killers', to the pair of Paris students who killed three cops and a taxi driver and were later discovered to have the film's poster on their bedroom wall. The ensuing media storm ensured that the British Board of Film Classification sat on the film for six months before passing it for a theatrical release in February 1995. It also explains why we have had to wait until now for the "

MediaGuardian.co.uk | Press&publishing | Whatever happened to the lads? Emap faces up to lost revenue and readers

2006-07-14T23:49:00.000+01:00

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Whatever happened to the lads? Emap faces up to lost revenue and readers

Simon Bowers
Friday July 14, 2006
The Guardian

Emap pointed to steepening declines in circulation for Britain's best-selling lads' magazine FHM as it warned a shareholder meeting yesterday that the media group faces a year of flat revenues. Shares dropped 125p, or 15%, to 712p in response.

Emap's outgoing chairman Adam Broadbent told the meeting sales trends since the start of last month 'make us more cautious about the prospect for underlying revenue, which may be marginally down in the first half'. He said underlying revenues - excluding the impact of new launches, acquisitions and disposals - were not likely to exceed the £1.07bn earned last year.

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MediaGuardian.co.uk | Broadcast | Rather attacks 'corporate controlled' news

2006-07-12T18:50:00.000+01:00

MediaGuardian.co.uk | Broadcast | Rather attacks 'corporate controlled' news: "
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Julia Day
Wednesday July 12, 2006
MediaGuardian.co.uk

Dan Rather, one of the biggest names in US broadcasting, has hit out at the corporate economics controlling news, after leaving CBS to join high definition TV channel HDNet.

Rather, 74, said he was relieved to be moving from news 'defined by the economics of the corporation presenting the news' to 'independent journalism'.

The news anchor left CBS News last month after he was unable to agree on his future role with the channel's management.

'CBS is a large organisation ... with a chain of command that looks like the wiring of a nuclear plant,' Rather told a meeting of the US Television Critics Association.

'The difference [at HDNet] is that the chain of command begins and ends with me. With 'Dan Rather Reports' I have creative and editorial control.'

He said his new hour-long weekly show, Dan Rather Reports, will feature field reports, interviews and investigations and he will produce and host the programme.

He has signed a three-year deal with HDNet, which is only available on cable and satellite services. He left CBS after 44 years in the wake of the reporting scandal over President George W Bush's military record."

BBC NEWS | UK | How 7/7 'democratised' the media

2006-07-07T21:50:00.000+01:00

BBC NEWS UK How 7/7 'democratised' the media: "
How 7/7 'democratised' the media

By Torin Douglas
Media correspondent, BBC News

It may not be the most significant legacy of the London bombings, but 7 July 2005 marked a turning point for the media.
That was the day the phenomenon of 'user-generated content' (UGC) or 'citizens' journalism' came into its own in Britain, as members of the public took over the roles of photographers and news correspondents.
That day, the BBC received 22,000 e-mails and text messages about the London tube and bus bombings.
There were 300 photos - 50 within an hour of the first bomb going off - and several video sequences.
With events happening largely underground, far removed from the eyes of the media professionals, the mobile phone camera came into its own, helping illustrate the day's horrific events in a way that would not have been possible before.

Stills from passengers on the Tube led the BBC News bulletins
The public's photos of the bus with its roof blown off helped confirm this was a bomb and not a power surge, as London Underground had first suggested. "

MediaGuardian.co.uk | Press&publishing | Weeklies boost magazine sales growth

2006-06-30T06:29:00.000+01:00

MediaGuardian.co.uk | Press&publishing | Weeklies boost magazine sales growth: "Weeklies boost magazine sales growth

Julia Day
Thursday June 29, 2006

The rise in popularity of weekly titles such as Nuts and Grazia has helped the consumer magazine industry record its highest rate of sales growth since 1989.

According to the Advertising Statistics Yearbook 2006, 1.44bn magazines were sold in the UK last year, up by 7.4% - or 100m copies - on the previous year.

Consumer magazine sales have now increased continuously since 2000, with total annual sales rising by 15.5% since then, the highest sales levels since 1989.

The boost in sales is attributed to the continued growth of the weekly magazine market.

Weeklies now account for 71.5% of all magazine sales, up from 68.2% in 2000, despite an average 10% increase in cover price between 2000 and 2005.

Phil Cutts, the director of marketing at the Periodical Publisher's Association, said: 'The market is continuously evolving to ensure magazines carry on appealing to their target audience.'

The combined effect of higher cover prices and increased sales meant that consumer expenditure on weeklies has risen by 27% in real terms over the same period, according to the figures released by World Advertising Resource Centre. This increase in magazine sales comes at a time when sale"

MediaGuardian.co.uk | Press&publishing | PPA opposes lads' mag move to the top shelf

2006-06-27T20:06:00.000+01:00

MediaGuardian.co.uk | Press&publishing | PPA opposes lads' mag move to the top shelf: "PPA opposes lads' mag move to the top shelf

Julia Day
Tuesday June 27, 2006

Zoo
Zoo: already subject to a voluntary code

The Periodical Publishers Association has written to MPs to argue against proposed new legislation that would see lads' magazines banished to newsagents' top shelves.

Claire Curtis-Thomas, the Labour MP for Crosby, Merseyside, has today laid down a 10-minute rule calling for new laws to govern the display of lads' mags, men's lifestyle magazines and newspapers such as the Daily Sport and Daily Star.

Ms Curtis-Thomas wants magazines and papers containing sexually explicit material to be kept out of sight of children.

But the PPA believes the recently strengthened and existing Home Office-sanctioned guidelines are stringent enough. Lads' mags should not be displayed near comics such as the Beano, for instance."

BBC NEWS | Politics | Call to move explicit 'lads mags'

2006-06-27T20:04:00.000+01:00

BBC NEWS | Politics | Call to move explicit 'lads mags': "Call to move explicit 'lads mags'
Lad mags
Magazines advertising porn sit next to comics, the MP says
Sexually explicit 'lads mags' should be banished to the top shelf by law, a Labour MP has told the Commons.

Claire Curtis-Thomas wants an independent regulator to restrict the display of such magazines in a bid to stop children from buying them.

She says some of the publications are 'repulsive' and 'degrading to women'.

But Tory MP Angela Watkinson opposed the measure, saying it did not take account of the 'complicity' of the women involved in the photo shoots.

'Graphic' contents

Mrs Curtis-Thomas presented her Regulation of Sale and Display of Sexually Explicit Material Bill in the Commons, stressing that many of the publications she was concerned about contained 'hard-core porn', numbers for 'sex chatlines' and adverts for masseurs.

She said descriptions of sex"

MediaGuardian.co.uk | Press&publishing | NatMags lifestyles go online

2006-06-26T17:11:00.000+01:00

MediaGuardian.co.uk | Press&publishing | NatMags lifestyles go online: "NatMags lifestyles go online

Julia Day
Monday June 26, 2006

Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping and Country Living are to be launched online later this summer.

The National Magazine Company has created the new role of managing director for digital publishing, as it seeks to build an online business.

Duncan Edwards, the chief executive of NatMags, said the appointee will 'take on the strategic and operational responsibility for creating a scale digital publishing business for the group'.

'We have built a proprietary platform and launched youandyourwedding.co.uk and babyexpert.co.uk and we have also acquired NetDoctor.co.uk,' he said.

'We now need a senior manager to drive this new business forward, to realise our commercial objectives and to set the digital agenda for the group.'"

MediaGuardian.co.uk | Advertising | Junk food TV ads worth £140m

2006-06-13T21:40:00.001+01:00

MediaGuardian.co.uk | Advertising | Junk food TV ads worth £140m: "Junk food ad ban would cost broadcasters £140m

Steve Busfield
Tuesday June 13, 2006

Ofcom has estimated that television companies would lose more than £140m in advertising revenue if junk food commercials were banned.

The media regulator today released figures in response to questions about the potential impact of a total ban, which is one of the options being considered as part of a public consultation that closes on June 30.

Ofcom estimates that a total ban would cost UK terrestrial broadcasters £114m - 3.9% of their total revenue.

GMTV would be hardest hit, with 6.7% of its revenue at risk.

ITV could lose 4.2% of its total ad revenue, while Channel 4 stands to lose 3.4% and Channel Five 3.1%.

Specialist children's channels could suffer a £4.4m loss - with Toonami, Nicktoons and Boomerang worst affected."

MediaGuardian.co.uk | Press&publishing | Lads' mag reissues ABC figure

2006-06-13T21:40:00.000+01:00

MediaGuardian.co.uk | Press&publishing | Lads' mag reissues ABC figure: "Lads' mag reissues ABC figure

Julia Day
Tuesday June 13, 2006

Dennis Publishing has reissued Maxim magazine's circulation figure for the second half of 2005 after its distribution system contravened Audit Bureau of Circulations rules.

The men's monthly's original ABC figure for July to December 2005 fell to 190,438, down 18.7% year on year and 16.2% in the first half of 2005.

Now Maxim has had an average of 4,530 monitored free distribution copies lopped off its original figure by the ABC, after 'distribution problems' that broke the industry body's guidelines.

The copies account for 2% of the original circulation figure for the period, which will now stand at 185,908.

Maxim remains in third place in the men's monthly sector, behind IPC's Loaded and Emap's FHM.

The problem with Maxim's figure was brought to the attention of Dennis Publishing during the final audit of the ABC figure and it has 'been working closely with the ABC to reissue the figure' ever since, the publisher said today in a statement."

Sky News: Playboy Back On Indonesian Streets

2006-06-07T18:05:00.000+01:00

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A second edition of Playboy has gone on sale in Indonesia after the first edition was forced off the streets because of Muslim protests.

Publishers have moved their offices from Jakarta to Bali, the scene of two al Qaeda-linked bombings.

'The safety and convenience of our employees comes first,' publisher Erwin Arnada said.

'People in Bali are more open to ideas, they are more adaptable.'

The toned-down version of Playboy, with no nudity, went on sale in Indonesia in April.

But protests and attacks on the publisher's Jakarta offices forced the magazine to close down.

The magazine's editor said there would be no pornography in the new edition.

Instead, there will be articles focusing 'quite heavily about social, political and cultural issues'."

MediaGuardian.co.uk | New media | Mail gets integration bug

2006-05-31T12:19:00.000+01:00

MediaGuardian.co.uk | New media | Mail gets integration bug: "Mail gets integration bug

Stephen Brook, press correspondent
Wednesday May 31, 2006

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Dacre: taking an intense interest in the BBC's online local news initiatives and interactive features on rival websites

The Daily Mail editor, Paul Dacre, has brought the paper's website in from the cold, installing its team of internet journalists in the heart of the paper's newsroom.

Tony Gallagher, the associate editor of the Daily Mail and the former news editor, has been put in charge of integrating the website with the newsroom.

Associated Newspapers' internet division, Associated New Media, will transfer its entire operation from Charlotte Street, Soho, into the company headquarters in Derry Street, Kensington. Staff in advertising sales, marketing and technical support will move into Derry Street in one month's time and the Charlotte Street offices will close.

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Media Week

2006-05-28T12:00:00.000+01:00

Media Week: "Revamp the old brand or go for new?

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As IPC embarks on a £3.2m makeover of its magazine Woman, Sheelagh Doyle asks how publishers decide to remake their brands or invest in something entirely new.

Now 69 years old and once the staple diet of almost every woman's reading, IPC's Woman, is getting a £3.2m overhaul. Two decades ago sales were at a heady one million-plus, but declines have accelerated in recent times - the current sale of 456,524 is little more than half that of 10 years ago.

In an era that's seen the women's weeklies sector segment with the launch of celebrity and real-life titles, appealing to younger women, Woman's problem is that it is still perceived as a throwback to the 1950s lifestyle, a housewives' help-guide to raising a family, cooking and knitting.

While a weekly that still sells more than 400,000 is not to be scoffed at, Woman and its 'traditional' weekly sisters seem long overdue a make-over. IPC's plans to inject celebrity, fashion and beauty into the format are more than just a freshen-up, but mark a bid to position away from the heart of the family/nation stance the magazine used to hold.

However, there are questions over whether investment in flagging brands is an efficient use of budget. Might it not "

Independent Online Edition > Media

2006-05-28T11:58:00.000+01:00

Independent Online Edition > Media: "Magazines: Can new 'Woman' take on the world?
The venerable women's weekly has so far avoided going down the celebrity route. But all that is about to change, reports Ian Burrell
Published: 22 May 2006

Charlotte Church, being a 20-year-old pop singer known to gossip columnists as 'The Crazy Chick', would appear to be an unlikely icon for a magazine launched shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War with a cover price of two shillings and the strapline 'The National Home Weekly '.

Nevertheless, Church has been selected to grace the relaunch cover of Woman, the iconic weekly title that will hit the news stands tomorrow with a makeover that is intended as a response to the marked change in lifestyle of the modern British middle-aged female."

MediaGuardian.co.uk | Special reports | Channel 4 thrown by trainer's four-letter outburst

2006-05-21T15:52:00.000+01:00

MediaGuardian.co.uk | Special reports | Channel 4 thrown by trainer's four-letter outburst: "Channel 4 thrown by trainer's four-letter outburst

Jason Deans, broadcasting editor
Thursday May 18, 2006

Channel 4 was forced to issue three on-air apologies yesterday afternoon after a victorious trainer said 'cunt' twice during its live horseracing coverage from York.

The broadcaster received five complaints from viewers about the incident - but one person also called in to say that the trainer in question, Mick Easterby, should be allowed to say what he liked on TV."

MediaGuardian.co.uk | Special reports | BBC brings back wrong Guy to News 24

2006-05-21T15:50:00.000+01:00

MediaGuardian.co.uk | Special reports | BBC brings back wrong Guy to News 24: "BBC brings back wrong Guy to News 24

Watch the original broadcast

John Plunkett
Tuesday May 16, 2006

Guy Goma
Goma: interviewed by Karen Bowerman on News 24 last week

A week after he was mistaken for an IT expert with a similar name, Guy Goma was back on News 24 today in an interview almost as painful as his original appearance.

Mr Goma's aborted interview with business presenter Karen Bowerman, who thought she was talking to Guy Kewney, will go down as one of the most embarrassing cock-ups in BBC News history."

MediaGuardian.co.uk | Special reports | 'Prancing' newsreaders paid too much, says Straw

2006-05-21T15:49:00.000+01:00

MediaGuardian.co.uk | Special reports | 'Prancing' newsreaders paid too much, says Straw: "
'Prancing' newsreaders paid too much, says Straw

Julia Day and agencies
Thursday May 18, 2006

House of Commons leader Jack Straw has launched a broadside at BBC newsreaders, saying they are overpaid for 'prancing' around a studio.

The attack came during a parliamentary exchange today criticising the style and substance of BBC bulletins.

Mr Straw, the former foreign secretary, was responding to Labour MP Chris Mullin, who warned that the BBC would have difficulty justifying its licence fee if it did not raise its game.

During the debate in the Commons, Mr Mullin asked: 'Can we find time to debate the extent to which the tabloid virus is beginning to infect BBC television news?"

MediaGuardian.co.uk | Broadcast | Spielberg lines up reality TV show

2006-04-08T19:37:00.000+01:00

MediaGuardian.co.uk | Broadcast | Spielberg lines up reality TV show: "Spielberg lines up reality TV show

Julia Day and agencies
Friday April 7, 2006

Steven Spielberg has teamed up with News Corporation's Fox network to launch a Pop-Idol style reality TV show searching for film-making talent. The Oscar-winning director of ET and Saving Private Ryan will develop the show, called On the Lot, alongside Mark Burnett, the producer of Survivor and The Apprentice.

On the Lot will be broadcast in late 2006 or early 2007, offering wannabe film-makers a Hollywood development deal at DreamWorks, the film studio co-founded by Spielberg and sold recently to Viacom-owned Paramount Pictures.

'All through my career I've done what I can to discover new talent and give them a start,' Spielberg said. 'This opportunity ... allows all of us to reach out directly to open a much wider door.'"

MediaGuardian.co.uk | Press&publishing | China clamps down on foreign magazines

2006-04-08T16:00:00.000+01:00

MediaGuardian.co.uk | Press&publishing | China clamps down on foreign magazines: "China clamps down on foreign magazines

Julia Day and agencies
Friday April 7, 2006

China has imposed a limit on the number of foreign magazines being sold in China in a blow to publishers hoping to cash in on the country's booming media market.

Beijing said it would not enter into any further partnerships with foreign publishers wanting to launch titles in China in a bid to help indigenous media firms to expand.

'We have no plans to add more copyright cooperation with foreign media companies,' said a director of China's general administration of press and publications, who wished to remain anonymous.

The official would not say how long the measures had been in effect or when it might end, although the Asian Wall Street Journal reported that the moratorium had been in place for about a year with an exception allowed for new science titles.

But he said that magazines that already are licensed by the Chinese government and those that are mailed into the country will not be affected.

Foreign publishers are eager to tap into a Chinese market with potentially hundreds of millions of increasingly affluent readers. But in order to publish in China they must have a local partner.

Such partnerships have already been formed to publish Chinese editions o"

MediaGuardian.co.uk | Broadcast | Al-Jazeera International launch delayed

2006-03-26T12:14:00.000+01:00

MediaGuardian.co.uk | Broadcast | Al-Jazeera International launch delayed: " Special report: TV news | Television

Al-Jazeera International launch delayed

David Connett
Friday March 24, 2006

The launch of the English-language channel from Arab satellite TV broadcaster al-Jazeera is to be delayed again.

The debut of the new channel - to be called al-Jazeera International - has been postponed until the autumn.

Wadah Khanfar, the managing director of the al-Jazeera Channel has also been named as the overall boss of the al-Jazeera Satellite Network.

Mr Khanfar, a Palestinian who has managed al-Jazeera's Arabic service for the last two years, has been appointed director general and will now be responsible for both the Arabic and English networks.

Increasingly seen as the international face of the Middle East-based network, Mr Khanfar has adopted a higher international profile to defend the organisation against criticism, particularly following allegations that the US president, George Bush, planned to bomb al-Jazeera.

Mr Khanfar is also credited with a successful restructuring of the organisation."

MediaGuardian.co.uk | Press&publishing | Lads' mags shift to top shelf

2006-03-25T19:20:00.000+01:00

MediaGuardian.co.uk | Press&publishing | Lads' mags shift to top shelf: "Lads' mags shift to top shelf

Staff and agencies
Friday March 24, 2006

Lads' mags are to be moved to the top shelf of newsagents following growing concerns about their explicit content.

The Home Office will send out new guidelines to newsagents next week asking them to display the magazines out of the sight and reach of children.

The move follows a meeting between Home Office officials and members of the National Federation of Retail Newsagents (NFRN) after MPs and campaigners complained about the increasingly explicit sexual content of lads' mags."

MediaGuardian.co.uk | Press&publishing | Lads' mag editor Gutfeld leaves Maxim

2006-03-10T19:26:00.000+01:00

MediaGuardian.co.uk | Press&publishing | Lads' mag editor Gutfeld leaves Maxim: "Lads' mag editor Gutfeld leaves Maxim

Owen Gibson
Friday March 10, 2006

Greg Gutfeld, the controversial editor of lad's mag Maxim who arrived from the US with a reputation as a 'publishing pest', has parted company with the magazine after two eventful years in the job.

Following figures earlier this month that showed sales of the magazine had plummeted below the 200,000 barrier, Dennis Publishing has decided not to renew Gutfeld's contract.

A spokeswoman for the publisher said the decision was not related to the circulation drop but aimed at refreshing the title.

Gutfeld said he would leave next month to write a book and spend some time as 'editor in chief of my life'.

On his arrival from US magazine Stuff, Gutfeld wasted no time in overhauling the magazine and promising to bring back some wit and humour to a men's magazine market that increasingly relied on acres of naked flesh and giveaways."

MediaGuardian.co.uk | Press&publishing | Local newspaper sales plummet

2006-03-02T23:54:00.000+01:00

MediaGuardian.co.uk | Press&publishing | Local newspaper sales plummet: "Local newspaper sales plummet

ABCs website

Chris Tryhorn
Thursday March 2, 2006

The woes of the regional newspaper industry were laid bare today as circulation figures revealed that every daily regional paper in Britain recorded a sales decline in the second half of 2005.

From the Yorkshire Post to the Western Morning News, local titles all lost sales in the six-month period compared with the first half of the year.

The only daily regional newspaper in the UK to record a sales rise between July and December was the Northern Ireland morning paper the Irish News, which increased sales by a modest 0.1%.

In the Sunday market there were also declines across the board, with just one exception in the UK - again in Northern Ireland, where sales at the Sunday Journal went up 8.4%.

Among the heavy fallers was the Birmingham Mail, which last year oversaw a much-heralded return to focusing on local news. The Mail's circulation fell by 9.6% to just over 83,100, with the comparison even worse on a year-on-year basis.

Its morning counterpart and Trinity Mirror stablemate, the Birmingham Post, saw its sales fall by 6.7% to 13,000."

MediaGuardian.co.uk | Broadcast | Corrie cleared of racism after 500 complaints

2006-02-20T18:56:00.000+01:00

MediaGuardian.co.uk | Broadcast | Corrie cleared of racism after 500 complaints: "Corrie cleared of racism after 500 complaints

Dominic Timms
Monday February 20, 2006

The media regulator today cleared the use of the term 'poor white trash' by an Asian character in Coronation Street, despite receiving complaints from over 500 viewers.

Ofcom said while the term had 'obvious racist overtones', its use on the ITV soap was justified by the context and could be used to describe 'those from a lower socio-economic group'.

More than 500 viewers complained that the term, used by Jayesh, one of the Asian characters, was racist and unacceptable."

MediaGuardian.co.uk | Media | The gender gap

2006-02-17T01:15:00.000+01:00

MediaGuardian.co.uk | Media | The gender gap: "The gender gap

'Where are the women?' is the burning question

Stephen Pritchard
Thursday February 16, 2006

Women - half the world's population - are barely present in the faces seen, the voices heard and the opinions expressed in the world's media. Don't believe me? Then look at Who Makes the News?, a report published in London this week. It makes shaming reading.

Right around the world, for every woman who appears in the news there are four men: only 21% of news subjects - the people the news is about - are female. In not one major news topic do women outnumber men as newsmakers. In politics, the subject that dominates the news agenda internationally, the picture is even grimmer - only 14% of news subjects are women."

MediaGuardian.co.uk | Press&publishing | Emap opens Zoo in Australia

2006-02-09T18:37:00.000+01:00

MediaGuardian.co.uk | Press&publishing | Emap opens Zoo in Australia: "Emap opens Zoo in Australia

Claire Cozens, press and publishing correspondent
Thursday February 9, 2006

Two years after the launch of Zoo Weekly in the UK, Emap is hoping to replicate the success of the title in Australia.

An Australian version of the weekly lads' magazine launches next week, backed by a £6m investment and with the aim of selling around 75,000 copies within its first six months.

The new Australian magazine will be edited by Paul Merrill, launch editor of Zoo in the UK, and is the second international version of the title after Zoo Siete launched in Spain last year.

'Zoo Weekly will be a huge hit in Australia as it has already proved in the UK and Spain. This is a ground-breaking concept for the Australian market and once again demonstrates Emap's unrivalled ability to truly innovate the world's magazine markets,' said Paul Keenan, the Emap Consumer Media chief executive."

MediaGuardian.co.uk | Broadcast | Sky News buoyed by whale saga

2006-01-23T20:16:00.000+01:00

MediaGuardian.co.uk | Broadcast | Sky News buoyed by whale saga: "Sky News buoyed by whale saga

Jason Deans, broadcasting editor
Monday January 23, 2006

Sky News has claimed its coverage of the ultimately doomed attempt to rescue the whale stuck in the Thames in central London over the weekend attracted more viewers than arch-rival BBC News 24. The audience for Sky News' coverage of the whale's plight peaked at 365,000 viewers at 2.45pm on Saturday - around the time the northern bottlenose was being lifted on to a barge near Battersea Park to be taken back out to sea.

During the journey along the Thames the whale suffered convulsions and died around 7pm on Saturday evening.

News 24's biggest audience on Saturday came at around 4pm, when 313,000 viewers were watching.

Overall, Sky News attracted a 1.63% share of multichannel viewing on Saturday, compared with 1.22% for News 24.

On Friday, when Sky News went live to coverage of the drama from its SkyCopter from around 12.30pm, the channel had a peak audience of 174,000 viewers at 5pm, with 158,000 an hour earlier.

In terms of multichannel share, S"

Malehealth : How healthy are men's magazines?

2006-01-22T21:43:00.000+01:00

Malehealth : How healthy are men's magazines?: "How healthy are men's magazines?

Lads mags coversShould lads magazines have health information in them? Or is the healthier option to avoid them completely?

Recently health campaigners have been complaining because lad's mags don’t even include simple safe sex messages. Loaded’s editor said such features were ‘boring’. Malehealth asks: lad's mags - sick or what?
Welcome source of hilarity

* Martin Robinson of Maxim reckons it's not the job of magazines like his to preach. He says: ‘For Maxim, sexual disease is a welcome source of hilarity.’ Read more here.

Why should shagging kill?

* Jack O’Sullivan of Fathers Direct disagrees. He says: ‘There is no reason why the traditional quota of tits and bums shouldn’t also have a serious message at times about sexual health. Why should shagging kill you? It doesn’t have to.’ Read more here."

BBC NEWS | Magazine | 'Why the world needs lads'

2006-01-22T21:40:00.000+01:00

BBC NEWS | Magazine | 'Why the world needs lads': "'Why the world needs lads'
Woman holding Glamour magazine
I don't want you reading my magazines again, OK?
After reading last week's Readers' Column, in which 'lad mags' were attacked, Bas Dickson Leach leaps to their defence, and by extension, that of those who read them. If you'd like to write a column, tell us using the form at the foot of the page.

Without kicking off a battle of the sexes on the fair fields of the BBC web pages, surely the point of lad mags is that they are for Lads, and are not meant to please young Ladies?

They are written for their audience, the Lads.

Lad mags cater to their market, and if you attack the content of the lad mag - the four-page spreads of semi-clad hotties, the articles exploring the deep ramifications of farting, accompanied by a series of helpful recipes guaranteed to increase your own gas, the page after page of gadgets, and sporting focuses like 'Nastiest tackles of the last century' - then you attack the Lad himself.

Now the Lad is a simple creature, and he enjoys many of the simpler pleasures in life - eating, drinking, the misfortunes of others, amazing and bizarre pictures, and of course, the idea that every woman in the world is both amazingly pretty, and spends a large portion of each day semi-naked."

BBC NEWS | Magazine | 'What are lad mags doing to us?'

2006-01-22T21:38:00.000+01:00

BBC NEWS | Magazine | 'What are lad mags doing to us?': "'What are lad mags doing to us?'
Lad mag
It's not just women ill-served by glossy magazines full of scantily-clad lovelies, but the men - and boys - who read them, says Kate Smurthwaite in our new Readers' Column. If you'd like to write a column, tell us using the form below.

I hate lad mags.

The writers refer to women as if they were animals or prized possession. One article might explain how to 'train' a girlfriend; another refers to breast augmentation surgery as a 'refit' and breasts as 'air-bags'.

One magazine's notorious 'Win a boob job for your girlfriend' competition [censured as irresponsible by the Advertising Standards Authority in October] shows similar disregard for women's wellbeing. Hardly surprising, given that we're characterised as indecisive, irrational, excessively talkative, and obsessed with our appearance."

M a g f o r u m . c o m - Men's magazines: part 2

2006-01-22T21:36:00.000+01:00

M a g f o r u m . c o m - Men's magazines: part 2: "Men's magazines: lad's mags II
This is the third part of an article on three pages:
Men's magazines I (go there):

# Early evolution
# The accepted wisdom
# Exploring the gap

Men's magazines II - this page:

# Loaded defines the lad's mag
# The rise of FHM
# Table: Men's magazines by mid-1996"

M a g f o r u m . c o m - Men's magazines: part 1

2006-01-22T21:34:00.000+01:00

M a g f o r u m . c o m - Men's magazines: part 1: "Men's magazines: lad's mags I
The launch of Loaded in 1994 is the stuff of legend. It revolutionised magazine publishing in the UK - and the US, when Dennis took the 'lad's mag' there in the form of Maxim. In between came FHM , which was to trounce Loaded in the sales stakes in the UK and is eating in to Maxim's lead in the US. FHM even grew to overtake the best-selling women's titles in terms of sales, although it came off the boil and was overtaken by the 'handbag' format Glamour in 2004. That year also saw the creation of a new sector - men's weeklies. This article puts these developments in context: "

MediaGuardian.co.uk | Press&publishing | Battle of men's weeklies hots up

2006-01-22T21:31:00.000+01:00

MediaGuardian.co.uk | Press&publishing | Battle of men's weeklies hots up: "Battle of men's weeklies hots up

Claire Cozens, press and publishing correspondent
Tuesday March 8, 2005

Nuts
Nuts: will a price cut and new publication day help it move ahead of Zoo?

A new war has broken out between Zoo Weekly and Nuts, which has decided to launch a head-to-head battle on Tuesdays and slash its cover price.

IPC is moving the publication date of Nuts forward by two days and cutting the cover price in half in an effort to scupper rival Zoo Weekly.

Nuts is hoping to pull ahead after its lead over Zoo Weekly was narrowed from a gap of 90,000 to under 30,000 copies a week.

The magazine publisher is hoping to lure Zoo readers to Nuts by hitting the newsstands on the same day as its biggest rival - with the added incentive that this week's issue will be priced at 60p rather than the usual £1.20.

Sources said IPC had taken the step after being 'panicked' by the latest ABC circulation figures, which showed sales of Nuts fell by 5% in the second half of 2004."

MediaGuardian.co.uk | Press&publishing | Zoo: 'We're not just about girls'

2006-01-22T21:30:00.000+01:00

MediaGuardian.co.uk | Press&publishing | Zoo: 'We're not just about girls': "Zoo: 'We're not just about girls'

John Plunkett
Tuesday April 19, 2005

Zoo - 2005 redesign
Zoo: fastest-growing men's magazine in the UK

Men's weekly Zoo is dropping its seven-day TV listings pages in a revamp aimed at overtaking its IPC rival, Nuts.

The Emap title is replacing its TV listings with a new 11-page entertainment section, The Guide, as one of several new initiatives including a regular eight-page special report and revamped news and sports sections.

The magazine also has a new strapline: 'Zoo - it makes your week'.

Emap bosses hope the redesign will help close the gap on Nuts, which narrowed to just 35,000 in the latest official circulation figures earlier this year.

The Zoo editor, Paul Merrill, said he hoped the new look would further increase competition between the two titles.

'We felt the magazine had changed quite a bit over the last few months, becoming a bit more smart and sophisticated, and the design wasn't really reflecting that,' he said.

'For a long time both magazines were seen to be very similar but now there is a difference between them. We are not just about girls.'

Zoo's new look comes less than two months after Nuts launched a head-to-head battle by moving its publication date"

MediaGuardian.co.uk | Press&publishing | Tesco orders lads' mag coverup

2006-01-22T21:29:00.000+01:00

MediaGuardian.co.uk | Press&publishing | Tesco orders lads' mag coverup: "Tesco orders lads' mag coverup

John Plunkett
Tuesday May 3, 2005

Zoo
Zoo: filled with pictures of scantily clad women

Tesco is to obscure the front covers of men's magazines such as Nuts and Zoo and move them to higher shelves following complaints about their sexually explicit content.

The supermarket giant said it was responding to customer concerns about the new generation of lads' magazines, but denied accusations of censorship.

The men's titles, which also include Front, Loaded, Maxim and FHM, will be moved higher up Tesco's magazine stands and given less shelf space so that, in some instances, only the masthead is on view.

'A group of our customers are shocked by what is on the front covers of these magazines,' said David Cooke, the senior buying manager at Tesco. 'Some express surprise that we sell these titles, others see them as outrageous and pornographic.

'It is a vibrant magazine sector and we want to continue to sell these titles, but we are a family-based supermarket and we have to be mindful of how to display them.'

Weekly titles Nuts and Zoo helped breathe new life into the dormant men's sector, selling nearly 600,000 copies a week between them. But they have done so on a diet of scantily clad reality TV and "

MediaGuardian.co.uk | Press&publishing | IPC goes Nuts with launch of men's weekly

2006-01-22T21:28:00.000+01:00

MediaGuardian.co.uk | Press&publishing | IPC goes Nuts with launch of men's weekly: "IPC goes Nuts with launch of men's weekly

Ciar Byrne
Monday January 5, 2004

Phil Hilton and Nuts
Nuts: editor Phil Hilton and his team

Publishing giant IPC is staking £8m in a new battle to win over male readers with what is expected to be the country's first ever men's weekly magazine.

The new title, Nuts, which will hit the streets next week, is the result of 13 months' planning and is IPC's first major launch since its £1.15bn takeover by Time Warner in 2001.

And it will place IPC in direct combat with publisher Emap, which is launching its own rival, Zoo Weekly, later this month.

Men's weeklies are the newest concept to hit the magazine market and they have already become a major battleground, with Emap accusing IPC of trying to steal its thunder.

The editorial director of IPC, Mike Soutar, who is overseeing the launch of Nuts, said the men's weekly had been months in the planning and was not a 'spoiler' operation aimed at Zoo Weekly."

MediaGuardian.co.uk | Press&publishing | Zoo launches in Spain

2006-01-22T21:26:00.000+01:00

MediaGuardian.co.uk | Press&publishing | Zoo launches in Spain: "Zoo launches in Spain

Stephen Brook
Tuesday August 2, 2005

Siete Spanish Zoo
Zoo Siete: the magazine will carry the same mix of sport and scantily clad women as its British parent

Men's magazine Zoo has launched a local version in Spain, the first of what its publisher Emap hopes will be many international editions.

The local magazine is called 'Zoo Sie7e', the result of rebranding the existing Spanish title, Sie7e, a play on the Spanish word for 'seven'.

The magazine will carry the same mixture of sport and scantily clad women that helped its British parent have such an impact on the industry.

Emap Consumer Media hopes Zoo can go some way toward replicating the international success of its market-leading stablemate, FHM, which has 30 editions around the world.

And Emap is in talks with other companies in the hope of signing more publishing agreements.

It is publishing Zoo Sie7e in partnership with Focus Ediciones, part of the Edipresse group, the Swiss publisher.

Focus Ediciones already publishes FHM in Spain under licence and recently launched Sie7e as a weekly.

Staffers from the British edition of Zoo have been working with Focus Ediciones behind the scenes over the past couple of months to help to export to Spain the Zoo formula o"

BBC News | ENTERTAINMENT | TV 'failing ethnic minorities'

2006-01-22T21:20:00.000+01:00

BBC News | ENTERTAINMENT | TV 'failing ethnic minorities': "TV 'failing ethnic minorities'
'Stereotypes': The Desais arrive in Coronation Street

Soap operas and other TV shows are lagging behind real life in their portrayal of ethnic minorities, according to a report from a broadcasting watchdog.

The Broadcasting Standards Commission said viewers felt ethnic groups were represented by two-dimensional characters, and were often negatively stereotyped.

People interviewed for the report felt minority characters were included just to make a point, rather than as an integral part of the plot - and did not represent real life for black and Asian people in the UK. "

MediaGuardian.co.uk | Broadcast | Channel 4 switches off red button

2006-01-19T14:32:00.000+01:00

MediaGuardian.co.uk | Broadcast | Channel 4 switches off red button: "Channel 4 switches off red button

Jason Deans at the Oxford Media Convention
Thursday January 19, 2006

Channel 4 has axed its red button interactive TV service, which the chief executive, Andy Duncan, branded 'clunky and inefficient'.
Mr Duncan said Channel 4 was the first broadcaster to recognise that the red button service, which is widely used to offer viewers extra interactive content, was the 'emperor's new clothes'.
He added that Channel 4 was currently spending several million pounds a year on red button services and this money could be put to better use providing other internet and broadband content."

See Fiona!

2006-01-19T14:29:00.000+01:00

It's so easy!

BBC NEWS | Technology | Blogs vie with news for eyeballs

2006-01-17T19:21:00.000+01:00

BBC NEWS | Technology | Blogs vie with news for eyeballs: "Blogs vie with news for eyeballs
Six newspaper front pages
Can blogs sit alongside traditional media?
Bloggers are gaining a higher profile alongside traditional news sources with Yahoo including blogs in its expanding news search system.

The decision could reignite the debate over what constitutes news reporting and whether blogs are as valuable a source of news as that from professional journalists.

So-called citizen journalists are increasingly dominating the headlines.

User-generated content has proved invaluable in breaking news stories.

Yahoo sees its plans, which will include photos from users, as enriching the news for everyone."

BBC NEWS | Technology | Digital challenge to old-style TV news

2006-01-17T19:20:00.000+01:00

BBC NEWS | Technology | Digital challenge to old-style TV news: "Digital challenge to old-style TV news
By Peter Feuilherade
BBC Monitoring in Amsterdam

Natasha Kaplinsky on the set of the BBC 6'o clock news
Is traditional TV news still relevant to young people?
Television is going through major changes in the ways in which news is collected, transmitted and received.

Consumers increasingly want more online, on-demand services, last week's NewsXchange media industry conference in Amsterdam heard.

The old-style, prime-time evening news may not yet be dead, but news on demand is taking over.

Rapid take-up of broadband means that growing numbers of people will watch the news on computer screens.

News providers are also increasingly reversioning content for mobile phones."

MediaGuardian.co.uk | Broadcast | Sky reviews rolling news schedules

2006-01-17T16:41:00.000+01:00

MediaGuardian.co.uk | Broadcast | Sky reviews rolling news schedules: "Sky reviews news revamp

Dominic Timms
Tuesday January 17, 2006

Sky has launched a review of its 24-hour news schedules just three months after a multimillion pound revamp ushered in Eamonn Holmes, former Bill Clinton aide James Rubin and a new era of 'appointment to view' programming.
The Sky Networks managing director, Dawn Airey, and news chief Nick Pollard are understood to be casting a critical eye on the new-look schedule and how specific shows are performing."