Guardian Newspapers is to promote its commercial director Carolyn McCall to the position of deputy managing director.McCall reached the position of commercial director at the group last year (see Newsline). As deputy managing editor, McCall will work alongside managing director Caroline Marland, who commented: “Guardian Newspapers is undergoing a period of rapid expansion and development… Continue reading Appointments Brief
The Institute of Practitioners in Advertising (IPA) has today called for a single economic regulator for television, responsible both for commercial services and the BBC, and an update of the current ownership and licensing regimes for radio.This development is the IPA’s response to the Government’s Green Paper on Regulating Communications (see Newsline). The IPA is… Continue reading IPA Demands a Single Regulatory Body For TV
GWR Group chief executive, Ralph Bernard, has called on the Government to change radio industry regulations in order provide a subsidy for the launch of digital radio. Without changes to the current regulation, he says, the long term health of the industry cannot be safeguarded.In response to Regulating Communications, the joint Green Paper from the… Continue reading GWR Calls For Digital Radio Subsidy
The Radio Advertising Bureau has published a guide to targeting housewives for radio advertisers. Called ‘Using Radio To Reach Housewives’, it suggests some practical measures for advertisers targeting this group.The RAB defines the key targets in this group as female housewives aged 25-54, showing they have a habitual shopping routine concentrated at the end of… Continue reading RAB Focuses On Housewives
The UK media group Pearson this weekend agreed to take a stake in the Spanish media. Through the group’s subsidiary, Recoletos, Pearson is seeking to purchase up to 30% of the shares of Unidad Editorial S.A, publisher of El Mundo, one of Spain’s leading daily newspapers.Pearson steps up its foreign interests in the wake of… Continue reading UK Pearson Invests in Spanish Publisher
According to reports over the weekend, the new owner of Talk Radio, Kelvin MacKenzie’s consortium TalkCo, is in conflict with the original senior management of Talk, who left the group after MacKenzie took over (see Newsline), over redundancy pay-offs. TalkCo bought the radio group for £24.7 million (see Newsline)According to Talk’s new controllers, the contracts… Continue reading More Rumblings At Talk Radio
Channel 5 has announced the promotion of its head of regional independent productions, Adam Perry, to the position of controller, special events.Perry was responsible for the surprisingly welcome return of Miss World on Channel 5 last week, after its 10 year absence. Live overnights from Initial showed that 3.2 million viewers tuned into watch Miss… Continue reading Channel 5 New Special Events Controller
This month’s Broadcasting Standards Commission Bulletin featured complaints against ITV’s The Bill, concerning violent scenes and the use of bad language before the watershed. The Commission decided to uphold the complaints after ruling that the episodes in question would have exceeded family expectations.Eastenders was also in the spotlight after over 20 complaints were received concerning… Continue reading Sex And Violence On TV Gets Complaints
Scottish Radio Holdings has released its preliminary financial results for the year ending 30 September 1998, revealing a 17% increase in turnover, taking it up to £43.8 million for the year.Pre-tax profit rose 30% to £12.5 million, and earnings per share are at 29p, a rise of 26%.The group intends to apply for local digital… Continue reading Scottish Radio Group Announces 17% Increase In Turnover
New research by US company, Nielsen Media Research, has shown that in America, households that gain Internet access do not watch less TV than they did before going online.The study measures the relationship over time between gaining access to the Internet and TV usage. Using Nielsen’s National People Meter Sample, TV usage was measured both… Continue reading US Research Shows The Net Doesn’t Steal TV Viewers
