Agency estimates for July 1998 put total terrestrial TV ad revenue at £148.45 million, with year on year rises for ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5 and a loss for GMTV.ITV’s total revenue was up by 2.3%, C4’s rose by 2.8%, and C5 revenue rose by 13.4% year on year. GMTV continues to lose ad revenue,… Continue reading TV Revenue – July 1998
Politics and current affairs magazine, the New Statesman, is to launch a new design next month following two years of reader research.Publisher Spencer Neal says that the title intends to introduce more ‘magazine devices’ along with new iconography and a bolder, cleaner logo. He says that market research showed that New Statesman readers wanted to… Continue reading New Statesman Expands Magazine Feel
Country Life, the IPC title, is to launch an official website. Focusing on subjects such as the environment, architecture and fine arts, the title is coming into the technological age.The website is expected to be ready by early 1999, and promises to be original material, not merely a regurgitation of the magazine.According to the latest… Continue reading Mother Nature Goes Online
Monday A TV Round-Up For July will be available on Newsline and, for subscribers, a more detailed version will be available in the Terrestrial TV features list.Wednesday VNU Business Publications releases interim financial results.An MRG meeting covering masthead television will be held at 6:00pm at Leo Burnett. The first presentation, entitled Still Protecting The Viewer?,… Continue reading The Week Ahead
Agency estimates for July 1998 put total terrestrial TV ad revenue at £165.10 million, with year on year rises for ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5 and a loss for GMTV.ITV’s total revenue was up by 2.3% to £118.95 million, C4’s rose by 2.8% to £37 million, and C5’s stood at £9.15 million – a rise… Continue reading TV Revenue – July 1998
According to its first set of buy rate figures released this week, the movies-on-demand service Front Row is three times more popular than predicted at the time of its launch back in March (see Newsline). The buy rates were 34% for July.According to the independent RSMB quarterly survey for June, Front Row has a 1%… Continue reading Front Row Is First In Line
Xfm’s new owner, Capital Radio (see Capital Receives Go-Ahead On Xfm Takeover), is to relaunch the station on Monday 24 August, with a new daily afternoon programme hosted by Bob Geldof. Geldof is to host a two-hour show, between 4pm and 6pm, and will be playing “simply the music that I like”.Until Monday’s relaunch at… Continue reading Capital Puts Xfm On Hold Pending Relaunch
Cabal Communications, the publishing company recently set up by Sally O’Sullivan (see O’Sullivan Plans A Batch Of New Magazine Launches), is planning to launch two consumer magazine titles this October. A lads’ magazine and a home interest magazine are in the pipeline, although Cabal will not reveal titles or editors at this stage.It is understood… Continue reading Cabal Winds Up To Two October Launches
http://www.maxim-magazine.co.uk/Trawling through the weird and wonderful landscape that is the internet, this week I find myself at the Maxim website, a common destination – I’m sure – for many an (male) internet surfer.The relaunch of the Maxim site is much more accomplished design wise than its predecessor. There are many flashing, beckoning icons to be… Continue reading Website Of The Week – Maxim
Haymarket’s Formula One magazine, GPX, has been ‘suspended’ only four issues and six weeks into its life. The title was launched in July this year but since then it has failed to sell sufficient copies to keep it afloat.GPX‘s editor, Paul Fearnley, has returned to his old job as editor of Haymarket’s Motoring News and… Continue reading GPX Magazine Closes After Only 4 Issues
