BBC Magazines has announced that its title Tomorrow’s World , launched at the beginning of the year (see Newsline), is to close after it failed to reach its target sales.The title’s only ABC audit figures for the period March ’98 – May ’98 showed the magazine had a total circulation of 61,314.The current December issue,… Continue reading Tomorrow’s World Magazine To End
It has emerged today that ONdigital, the digital terrestrial service which launched this weekend (see Newsline), does not have the rights to show a full range of films on its terrestrial service.BSkyB, the satellite broadcaster, committed to supply ONdigital with films which it shows on its satellite platform. As yet however, Sky has failed to… Continue reading BSkyB Still In Film Rights Negotiations For ONdigital
Leo Burnett, the advertising agency, and The MacManus Group announced today their mutual decision not to merge.Chairman and CEO of Leo Burnett, Richard B Fizdale, commented: “Over the course of the past year, both agency groups have discussed the pluses and minuses of merging our substantial media service companies.“While we have a great deal of… Continue reading Leo Burnett and MacManus Merger Talks Break Down
The Observer has linked up with UCI Cinemas this month to give readers free cinema tickets. Vouchers in The Observer’s ‘Life’ magazine will entitle readers to 2 cinema tickets for the price of one.Readers can exchange the vouchers to see any film at any time until the end of the year. The promotion is to… Continue reading The Observer In Cinema Ticket Giveaway
Talk Radio, the station which was recently bought by Kelvin MacKenzie’s consortium TalkCo (see Newsline), has announced a deal with Sky Sports News to provide listeners with up-to-the-minute results and interviews. The deal gives Talk Radio access to Sky Sport’s audio material 24 hours a day.Kelvin MacKenzie commented on the deal: “This deal will enable… Continue reading Talk Radio And Sky Sports Secure A Deal
It is understood that thirty of the UK’s largest advertisers have written to the Independent Television Commission (ITC) backing ITV’s plans to move the News At Ten (see ITV Axes News At Ten). The ITC is holding a meeting tomorrow at which a decision over whether to permit the move will be made. Details will… Continue reading Newsline Brief
The Flextech-owned channel Trouble has signed a deal with publisher Attic Futura to produce a masthead programme of its title, Sugar. The programme, called Sugar’s Real Life Stories, will be a series of 13 x 30 minute episodes and will focus on the life experiences of teenagers.This follows a deal struck between Trouble and Attic… Continue reading Trouble For Masthead Programming
Quality MarketThe total circulation across the broadsheet market in October 1998 was down by 3.6%, currently standing at 5,635,335. Only two of the quality titles increased their circulation. The Financial Times showed a healthy rise of 11.8% in its circulation, taking it up to 361,699, and The Sunday Times’ circulation increased by 0.7%. The Independent… Continue reading National Newspaper ABC Round-Up – October 1998
Underlying inflation (excluding mortage payments and interest rates) hit the Government’s 2.5% target for the third month in succession in October, according to official data released by the Office for National Statistics this morning.At the same time headline inflation – which includes mortgage interest repayments – rose 0.1% on the month, while the year-on-year rate… Continue reading Inflation Steady For Third Month
The Independent Television Commission (ITC) is to meet later this week to determine the licence payments which the ITV franchises will have to pay the Treasury in order to retain their licences to broadcast. It is expected that the Commission will decide that, in light of increased competition from cable and satellite multichannel television, the… Continue reading ITV Companies May See Licence Payment Reductions From ITC
