At the end of last week, the Culture Secretary Chris Smith launched a report into the economic importance and potential of the UK creative industries.Such industries include publishing, software, design, music, television and radio, advertising and designer fashion.The report reveals that the creative industries generate revenues of about £60 billion per year, and export an… Continue reading Culture Secretary Launches Report Into Creative Industry
British Interactive Broadcasting (BiB), the joint venture formed by BT, BSkyB, Midland Bank and Matsushita to provide digital TV interactive services, announced today that it is to have a new brand – it is renaming as Open…..BiB was recently given permission to launch by the EU (see Newsline), and is expected to begin running a… Continue reading A Change Of Identity For BiB
With the recent launch of Sky’s digital service, and the huge proliferation of sports channels which exist on this service as well as cable and satellite, it is interesting to see that football still draws in large audience figures for terrestrial TV channels as well.Channel 5’s recent coverage of the European Championships qualifier between Luxembourg… Continue reading Football Still Pulls For Terrestrial
Following the acquisition of Talk Radio by TalkCo – the group headed by Kelvin Mackenzie (see Newsline), TalkCo announced some management changes which will take effect immediately.Paul Robinson (former managing director), John Simons (former head of programming) and Stan Park (former commercial director) have been fired from Talk Radio. All three left on Friday evening,… Continue reading Talk Radio Fires Former Managing Director
Cable & Wireless released its interim financial results today for the six months ended 30 September 1998.Revenue increased 14% to £1,257 million for September 1998, and profit before and after taxation for the period was £65 million. Operating profit increased 28% to £157 million.Earnings per share increased 12% to 4.9p.Chief executive, Graham Wallace, said: “We… Continue reading Cable & Wireless Shows Quarter Growth
The European Broadcasting Union is fighting to ensure that the coverage of the next two football World Cups in 2002 and 2006 are shown on free to air television. The EBU are usually sold the television rights to World Cups by FIFA, the international governing body for football, but this year the rights were sold… Continue reading EBU In Fight To Keep World Cup Rights Free To All
Viewers are less tolerant of strong scenes in television dramas than they are in films, according to an Independent Television Commission research report published today called Film Versus Drama: Relative Acceptability Of The Two Genres On Television.According to the report, viewers very much appreciate information about the content of programmes, and consider television drama content… Continue reading Drama More Of A Shocker Than Films, Says ITC
Bob Hulks bounded on to the MRG conference platform on Friday afternoon as independent chairman of the NPA Review Group, charged by all national newspaper publishers with “putting newspapers at the forefront of media research”.Newspaper investment in research is minimal, said Hulks – approximately 0.08p per £1 of advertising revenue (TV is about 0.32p, radio… Continue reading Newspapers “will take research initiative”
Following reports last week of GWR’s concerns about radio ownership rules (see Newsline), the radio group has called for current rules governing commercial radio ownership to be replaced by those similar to the ones governing television.GWR’s model calls for a 20% maximum audience share for radio, which is 5% more than the limit on television.… Continue reading GWR Finds A Model For Radio Ownership
The Radio Authority has announced that it is offering the new ILR licence for Telford to Telford FM (Telford Radio Ltd). The station will have a potential adult (15+) audience of 115,000 .The licence will come into affect as soon as Telford FM is ready to begin broadcasting.Radio Authority: 0171 405 2724
