Programmes Who says there isn’t decent light entertainment on television anymore? BBC1’s coverage of Man United hilarious participation in FIFA World Club Championships certainly seemed to disprove that. United’s drawn first match was watched by an audience of 10.17 million, while their 3-1 defeat two days later attracted 9.2 million people.Channel 4’s decision to give… Continue reading TV Viewing Round Up – January 2000
The Newspaper Society has been campaigning for some time to increase the profile of the regional press amongst national advertisers and their agencies. It is the Society’s long-term aim to gradually increase the percentage of national display advertising that regional newspapers take. However, this month sees the closure of The Word, a cross-company sales shop… Continue reading Feature: Regional Publishers Must Work Hard To Attract National Advertisers
Month On MonthThe national newspaper sector saw an overall increase in sales of over a million copies between December 1999 and January this year, according to the latest data released by the Audit Bureau of Circualtions (ABC). Some particularly strong performances from the News Of The World, Mirror, Sunday Mirror and Sunday Times helped boost… Continue reading National Newspaper ABC Round-Up – January 2000
IPC’s Uncut continues to outperform it rivals in the film magazine sector. For the third successive period the title has recorded a rise of over 20% in total average net sales – up 25% year on year for the July to December 1999 period. The new market leader is Inside Film, which releases its first… Continue reading Uncut Continues To Grow In Film Sector
The following tables show the overall performances of each magazine publishing group in the July-December 1999 ABCs, released on Friday last week. Attic Futura, Dennis Publishing and Future Publishing are the only companies to show overall annual growth in their portfolios.The consumer publishing giants, EMAP and IPC, both saw slight decline in their overall sales… Continue reading July-December 1999 ABCs – Performance By Publisher
The launch of Sega’s Dreamcast obviously had a significant influence upon the games magazine market during the latter half of 1999. It left Nintendo and Sony Playstation as effectively outdated machines and titles dedicated to these ageing models began to fall out of fashion. N64 Pro lost over half its circulation on the previous year,… Continue reading Dreamcast Launch Takes Games Market To Next Level
The latest figures from ABC show that for teenage magazines circulation levels have fallen by over 327,346 over the past year, a 9.7% decrease in sales.Some magazines have fared better than others however, and Mizz, More, Live & Kicking and the recently launched Girl Talk have all experienced growth in circulation. The worst affected magazine… Continue reading EMAP Retains Lead In Struggling Teen Sector
Sales of titles in this sector rose marginally during the period in question, although this was largely due to the launch of Real Homes Magazine which appeared on the ABC survey for the first time in 1999.The IPC publication, Ideal Home, enjoyed the greatest increase in sales – 54,357 or 27.2% year on year. The… Continue reading IPC Steadies the Home Interest Ship
July to December figures for 1999 show that the women’s weeklies market has declined in overall sales when compared to the same period a year earlier. Total sales for the sector came in at 7.8 million copies, down slightly by 2.2%.Bauer’s Take A Break leads the market, despite circulation falling 3.4% year on year. There… Continue reading Women’s Weeklies Round Up – July-December 1999
The latest circulation figures from the Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) show few highlights for consumer music magazines. Year-on-year the sector fell 9.8% from 1,831,233 (Jul-Dec 98) to 1,652,254. All of the main publishers in the sector suffered heavy losses on leading titles. EMAP’s Select, Sky and Smash Hits titles fell 21.4%, 24.2% and 18.1%… Continue reading Latest ABCs Show Few Highlights For Music Sector
