MEDIA: FOR THE RECORD

ALASDAIR REID, Campaign, Friday, 26 September 1997, 12:00am,

The ITV Network is planning to work with its member companies as a consortium, rather than a federation of competing interests, as it has operated in the past. David Liddiment, the new network director, spoke for the first time about his and the new chief executive, Richard Eyre’s, plans for the network at last week’s Royal Television Society Convention.

The ITV Network is planning to work with its member companies as a

consortium, rather than a federation of competing interests, as it has

operated in the past. David Liddiment, the new network director, spoke

for the first time about his and the new chief executive, Richard

Eyre’s, plans for the network at last week’s Royal Television Society

Convention.



Lever Brothers is launching the world’s biggest ambient media campaign

using 15 million scented bus tickets advertising Radion Sunfresh. The

tickets release the Sunfresh fragrance when rubbed or scratched. The

campaign, created by Image Promotions, begins this week and will involve

major bus routes in London.



BBC Worldwide’s chief operating officer, Dick Emery, is the front-runner

to succeed Bob Phillis as the chief executive of the corporation’s

commercial arm. Phillis will leave the BBC for the Guardian Media Group

later this year.



Haymarket Publishing is setting up a contract publishing division.

Patrick Fuller, who was previously the managing director of Haymarket

Leisure, will head the Customer Magazine Division.



LCD is launching a monthly music magazine this week called Supersonic

Monthly. The title costs pounds 1.99, is aimed at 12- to 18-year-olds

and hopes to fill the gap in the magazine market between Smash Hits and

Vox.



Christine Costello, the commercial director of Scottish Media

Newspapers, has restructured the division’s ad department, promoting Liz

Napier from general sales manager to advertising controller. Moyra Reid,

Steve Montgomery and Debbie Arnold have been promoted to group sales

managers, reporting to Napier.



The Evening Standard is targeting students with a promotion offering a

term’s worth of vouchers enabling them to buy Thursday’s Evening

Standard and Hot Tickets for 10p instead of 30p. The campaign, created

by HH&S, will be promoted in 250 newsagents.



Interactive versions of Loaded and Marie Claire will appear on the

revamped male and female lifestyle channels of BT’s Touchpoint

Multimedia kiosks at the beginning of October. The IPC titles will be

available on the 200 kiosks which can be found in public areas, such as

shopping centres, in the London area.



The Teenage Magazine Arbitration Panel has unveiled an Internet site

containing its guidelines, details of the complaints procedure and

research. The site will have links with the Advertising Standards

Authority’s Website. The address is http://www.ppa.co.uk/tmap



Charterhouse Communications is launching a monthly consumer finance

magazine, the Investor, this week. The title complements the group’s

existing portfolio, which includes Personal Finance, What Investment?,

What PEP? and What Mortgage?.



Sally Cartwright, UK publishing director of Hello!, is the new

vice-chairman of the Periodical Publishers Association . She will

replace Bob Findlay as chairman when he ends his term of office in

October next year.



The Independent Television Commission is to use a ’citizen’s jury’ in

its latest research project about what viewers find offensive on

television. The jury will involve members of the public sitting for four

days, cross-examining witnesses and listening to evidence. The two

juries will conduct their examinations in September and October, and

then submit reports.



Future Publishing’s Entertainment division has appointed James Pembroke

publisher responsible for the science fiction magazine, SFX, and the

recently launched title, Cult TV. He joins from the Oldie, where he has

been business manager for five years.



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