BBC1’s decision to screen the film Seven as a spoiler against ITV’s Reckless, has ended with both programmes failing to attract more than 9 million viewers. Seven, which starred Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman and a headless Gwyneth Paltrow, was watched by 8.7 million viewers. Over on ITV the conclusion of Reckless attracted 9 million people.Channel… Continue reading TV Viewing Summary W/E 11/10/98
Manchester United has hit back at the group of shareholders calling on City institutions to reject BSkyB’s offer for the football club. The media giant made the bid back in August, offering £625 million for the club (see Newsline)Campaigning group Shareholders United Against Murdoch (SUAM) urged investors to hold on to their shares as they… Continue reading BSkyB And Manchester United Create Controversy
Commercial radio is claiming to have hit its highest ever hours per listener for the summer period, up to 15.1 in these RAJAR figures. Radio listening as a whole, was also up for this quarter by 4%.In the local commercial market London’s Capital 95.8 has turned in strong results with its market-leading share of listening… Continue reading Q3 RAJAR – Local Commercial Stations
The Advertising Standards Authority has ruled that Talk Radio is to be subjected to pre-vetting of all its advertisements after the radio group ran an ad featuring a woman’s naked backside stamped with a bar code.Following new sanctions introduced in June this year (see Newsline), the Committee of Advertising Practice will now pre-vet all subsequent… Continue reading Talk Radio Gets A Slap On The Bum By The ASA
David Arculus, chairman of IPC Magazines, yesterday told the PPA’s annual Magazine Subscriptions conference that subscriptions and an investment in effective database marketing are the future of magazine publishing. “They are an expensive investment, but we must treat them as a valuable asset to our industry,” he said.Arculus pointed out that the subscribers who make… Continue reading IPC Chairman Says Subscriptions And Databases Will Drive Magazine Growth
The Periodical Publishers Association (PPA) is to hold its third Digital Production Conference on 4 November at Grosvenor House. The global impact of digital production on magazine publishing is to be the focus of discussion, and the meeting will be chaired by Martin Bloomfield of Reed Business Information.Other than the main sessions, the conference will… Continue reading PPA Digital Production Conference
The weekly reach of all BBC stations increased by 1.4% this quarter to 26.6 million, a slightly larger increase than all commercial stations, which saw a rise of 1.2% year on year. During the summer period, both Talk Radio and Virgin saw healthy increases in weekly reach, of 11.2 and 18.6 percent respectively.Radio 4 saw… Continue reading Q3 RAJAR – National Stations
The advertising agency Ammirati Puris Lintas has appointed Susanna Hailstone board account director.Hailstone was behind the ‘hello boys’ Wonderbra campaign, and will be working on Lever Europe, Interflora and new business projects at APL. She will report to Chris Thomas, the agency’s chief executive.APL recently lost its chairman in the form of Andrew Cracknell, who… Continue reading APL Acquires New Director
Chris Smith, culture secretary, has made three new appointments to the radio authority.David Witherow, Sheila Hewitt and Feargal Sharkey are the newcomers to the group, and the appointments will be for 5 years from 1 December 1998.Chris Smith commented:”All three of these people came forward after we advertised for new members of the Radio Authority… Continue reading Appointments At The Radio Authority
Channel 4 and The Observer are to join forces to present a project called The Power List, which will appear both on television and in printed format.The project sets out first to define power and then to rank the 300 most powerful people in Britain. The Power List will kick off on Channel 4 this… Continue reading Channel 4 And The Observer Go On A Power Trip
