Channel Four admitted yesterday that a documentary which it broadcast in September 1997, about male prostitutes, was, in parts, a fake. The broadcaster announced that it is imposing an indefinite ban on the producer of the programme, Maire Devine, after footage in the documentary was found to be fake. Allegations about the documentary were intially… Continue reading Channel Four Documentray Found To Be A Fraud
They seek them here, they seek them there. The BBC seek viewers everywhere. Which is probably why they thought they were onto a winner with the latest adaption of The Scarlet Pimpernel. The first episode pulled in a fairly impressive 8.34 million viewers, although ITV’s London’s Burning was watched by 10.81 million.Elsewhere the lynchpin of… Continue reading TV Viewing Summary W/E 24/01/99
Following Wednesday’s share surge (see Sharewatch), the Daily Mail & General Trust yesterday fell back by 200p to close at 3,253p. Chrysalis continued to rise after good RAJAR results for its Galaxy stations were announced yesterday (see Q4 RAJAR – Local Commercial Stations): Chrysalis shares closed at 702˝p yesterday, up by 37˝p on the previous… Continue reading Sharewatch
The weekly reach of All BBC stations rose by 0.6% to 26.73 million in Q4 1998, according to this afternoon’s RAJAR data release. This compares to All Commercial’s weekly reach increase of 0.2% to 28.45 million. Whilst BBC Network Radio saw a 0.9% rise in its reach (23.15 million), All National Commercial radio fell by… Continue reading Q4 1998 RAJAR – National Stations
The cable communications company Telewest has announced that it has awarded its £15 million advertising business to Jones Mason Barton Antenen. The shift marks the end of Telewest’s relationship with GGT Direct, with whom the group have been for over 2 years.On-going projects will be completed by the incumbent over the next three months, but… Continue reading Telewest Gives Ad Account To Jones Mason Barton Antenen
Q4 RAJAR figures, released this afternoon, show that whilst overall radio listening has remained pretty static year on year (up by just 0.2% to give an average weekly reach of 40.32 million listeners), national commercial weekly reach has slipped slightly, down by 4.9% to 11.18 million (23%). All commercial radio, however, made a very slight… Continue reading Q4 Rajar Summary – BBC Closes In On Commercial’s Share Of Listening
Following the Granada Group AGM yesterday, the media owner’s chairman, Gerry Robinson, released a positive trading statement showing that advertising revenue had risen by 6% in the first quarter to December 1998. ITV, of which Granada is one of the franchises, almost achieved its target peak time viewing share of a 38% set by Richard… Continue reading Granada Reports 6% Rise In Ad Revenue For 1998
The Q4 RAJAR figures released today have thrown up a rather mixed batch of results in the London Stations sector, showing some sharp increases in weekly reach, but also some substantial falls. Choice FM showed the largest proportional rise in weekly reach, rising 27.9%.Capital 95.8FM is still dominating the sector in terms of weekly reach.… Continue reading Q4 RAJAR 1998 – London Stations
RAJAR The data release for Q4 1998 topline radio audience figures will be available in MediaTel’s Radio Database from 2:00pm this afternoon, 4 February.ABC Consumer magazines circulation data for July-December 1998 is released by the Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) on 12 February and will be available in MediaTel’s Press Database from 9:30am on that… Continue reading RAJAR And ABC Data Release Times
In this quarter’s RAJAR data it is the local commercial radio stations which have staved off what could have been a poor showing by the commercial sector as whole. Where national commercial stations lost 4.9% of their weekly reach and their share of listening fell from 10.0% to 9.3%, the local stations pushed their reach… Continue reading Q4 RAJAR – Local Commercial Stations
