Following the previous ABC audit, the food magazine market continues its downward spiral in circulation in the Jul-Dec 1998 figures. Despite 6-monthly improvements for BBC Good Food (4.6%), Family Circle (6.9%), Sainsbury’s – The Magazine (10.8%) and Somerfield Magazine (4.1%), year-on-year comparisons show the food magazine sector has yet to recover to its pre-1998 levels.… Continue reading Food Magazines’ Circulation Decline Continues
Talk Radio has recruited five new members to its sales team to handle its ‘rapidly expanding’ sales business. Paul Seberry, Cennydd Roberts and Claire Ellis join the station as account manager, account executive and sales assistant respectively.Last month Talk announced that its January sales were 250% higher than the same month the year before and,… Continue reading Talk Radio Expands Sales Team
Following the previous ABC audit, the food magazine market continues its downward spiral in circulation in the Jul-Dec 1998 figures. Despite 6-monthly improvements for BBC Good Food (4.6%), Family Circle (6.9%), Sainsbury’s – The Magazine (10.8%) and Somerfield Magazine (4.1%), year-on-year comparisons show the food magazine sector has yet to recover to its pre-1998 levels.The… Continue reading Food Magazines’ Circulation Decline Continues
Pan-European news broadcaster, EuroNews, is to cease broadcasting its analogue signal from 1 April when it moves over to a digital-only service. Sales for Norfolk radio station, 96.7 KL.FM, have been handed to Katz Radio Sales. The station was previously represented by GWR Group’s Opus sales house. Large companies – the main targets for sponsorship… Continue reading Newsline Brief
Inflation remains just above the Government’s target rate, according to the latest official figures. The Office for National Statistics said underlying inflation for January remained unchanged at 2.6%, as against the target of 2.5%. The Retail Prices Index for January was 163.4, a 2.4% increase in January 1998 but 0.6% lower than December 1998.The headline… Continue reading Inflation Hovers Above Chancellor’s Target
1998 brought a drop in both circulation and readership across the national press market. Total circulation dropped by 2.4% throughout last year, an actual fall of 677,824 sales. Currently the total circulation of all of the national press titles listed here is 27.28 million. The popular papers lost the greatest sales overall as a sector.… Continue reading National Press Market Round-Up – 1998
The new free internet service provider (ISP) launched last week by Tesco (see Tesco Introduces Free Internet Access) will have content provided by Excite as the result of a deal announced this morning. Excite is to develop specially formatted channel content and internet search engines for the service which is being offered to Tesco’s ten… Continue reading Tesco’s Free ISP Signs Content Deal With Excite
The latest July-December circulation figures for film/cinema magazines sees EMAP’s market leader, Empire, record a slight loss in year on year figures, dropping 3.1%. The magazine that is coming on leaps and bounds is Future Publishing’s Total Film, which rises by 13,570 or 25.7%.In the television listings sector the best performance comes from the freely-delivered… Continue reading Empire Slips While Total Film Continues To Grow
MTV has announced the anticipated details of its three new digital television channels (see Newsline). The three channels will be called MTV Extra, MTV Base and VH1 Classic, and are initially expected to launch on Sky Digital by the summer. Distribution for the new channels will then roll out via analogue and digital cable networks… Continue reading MTV Announces Three New Digital Channels
The latest July-December circulation figures for film/cinema magazines sees EMAP’s market leader, Empire, record a slight loss in year on year figures, dropping 3.1%. The magazine that is coming on leaps and bounds is Future Publishing’s Total Film, which rises by 13,570 or 25.7%. In the television listings sector the best performance comes from the… Continue reading Empire Slips While Total Film Continues To Grow
