A decline in viewing figures for ITV’s Nightly News programme prompted talk of a court battle last week after the ITC insisted that the network bring forward the time of its 11pm news slot. ITV had asked permission to scrap the News at Ten a year earlier but after the schedule change lead to a… Continue reading Feature: How Much More News Can We Take?
Programmes May comes along and the viewers start melting away quicker than England’s back four. With a dearth of decent new programmes in the schedules, terrestrial television is beginning to resemble UK Gold with its output. In times of crisis programme makers always rely on the safe, tried and tested programmes to grab big audience… Continue reading TV Viewing Round Up – May 2000
GWR has agreed to consolidate DMG Radio, the radio interests of the Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT), in its own radio business. The deal, worth £146 million, will see GWR, which owns Classic FM as well as 38 local licences, add a further eight UK local stations to its portfolio and enhance its overseas… Continue reading Feature: GWR Seeks Licence Disposal Amid Consolidation
It is unlikely that TV presenter Keith Chegwin ever thought that the more private parts of his anatomy would come under close media scrutiny. Having made his name in children’s television shows some twenty years ago he’s better known these days for location slots on breakfast television. Neither genre is known for its smut, but… Continue reading Feature: Channel Five Stirs Up A Storm With Naked Programming
IPC Media last week signaled a shift in its operations to concentrate on brands and core markets, rather than individual magazine titles. The move follows a very similar reorganisation late last year by rival publisher Emap, which set up dedicated community networks to focus its media on key audience groups rather than bundling them by… Continue reading Feature: Publishers Move Towards “Media-Neutral” Brands
Month On Month Monthly national newspaper circulation figures for May, released by the ABC this week, showed an overall drop in sales of 0.5%. Sport First saw the greatest fall in circulation, down by almost 20% – or 15,925 sales – in a month on month analysis. Sunday Business also performed badly, slipping almost 8%… Continue reading National Newspaper ABC Round-Up – May 2000
A drop in both circulation and readership occurred across the national press market during 1999. Total circulation fell by 1.9% throughout last year, an actual fall of 511,651 sales. The popular papers in both the daily and Sunday sectors lost the greatest sales overall – falling 1.6% and 3.9% respectively. January – December 1999 ABC… Continue reading National Press Market Round-Up – 1999
The large television audiences gained by international football matches and competitions are a key bargaining tool for commercial TV networks to squeeze more revenue out of advertisers. Top home nation games can achieve by far the highest viewing figures of the whole year’s schedule, with an audience that is larger than average across the men,… Continue reading Feature: Advertisers Line Up As Euro 2000 Kicks Off
The latest data from the National Readership Survey (NRS) shows a continuing decline in readership figures, with a YOY decrease of 4.4%. The largest losses were seen at the Sunday People which dropped 18.3%, or 776,000 readers. The Mirror also fell 14.3% and The Times 11%.News of the World’s 5.7% drop was put forward by… Continue reading National Newspaper NRS Round Up – April 2000
Revenue Total terrestrial revenue (including GMTV) rose by 17.4% year on year to reach £273.5 million, according to agency estimates. Of this, ITV’s revenue rose 19.4% to £193 million; Channel 4’s grew by 10.8% to £56.3 million and Channel 5 saw its revenue rise by 19.4% to £18.3 million.Revenue at breakfast franchise GMTV grew 11.7%… Continue reading TV Market Round-Up – April 2000
