ITV franchise holder Border Television has announced annual pre-tax profits down 26.9% to £2.01 million (previously £2.74 million) for the year ended 30 April 1998. Turnover at the group stood at £15.81 million, up 17% year on year. Earnings per share were 12.5p, down 25.6% on the previous year.Border reports that its share of ITV… Continue reading Border Profits Down To £2m
Good Housekeeping magazine is drawing up plans to take its TV spin-off programme, the Good Housekeeping Show, to ITV next year.The programme currently broadcasts on the Granada Breeze cable and satellite channel. However, since the ITC removed the masthead programming restrictions from terrestrial television, magazine-based programmes can now be shown on the five terrestrial channels… Continue reading Good Housekeeping Show May Go To ITV
Conor Dignam, editor of Media Week, is to leave his post to become editor of Haymarket’s Marketing in October.Dignam was previously deputy editor at Marketing but left to join Media Week late last year. The editor’s role at Marketing is currently handled by Mike Hewitt, group editor/publisher.Media Week: 0171 505 8341 Haymarket Publishing: 0181 943… Continue reading Media Week Editor To Return To Marketing
ABC will be re-issuing the latest national newspaper ABC figures (June 1998) for The Guardian later this afternoon after an error in the data that was supplied to ABC by the newspaper.The Guardian‘s figures have therefore been removed from the Press database pending reissue.Subscribers can select National Newspaper ABC Breakdowns from the Press database to… Continue reading ABC Circulation Amendment For Guardian
The Radio Authority (RA) has said that it is to attempt to increase the reach of digital radio licence areas within London following concerns by broadcasters such as Capital Radio that there would be a shortfall in the number of listeners it would reach (see Capital Radio Wants A Safer Digital Deal).Capital had expressed concern… Continue reading RA Attempts To Increase London Digital Coverage
Sally O’Sullivan, ex IPC editor-in-chief of Ideal Home, has poached a number of IPC staff and is set to launch 12 new magazines in as many months. The new publishing company Cabal Communications, of which O’Sullivan is chief executive, will open its doors sometime this month.It is understood that the first few launches, possibly appearing… Continue reading O’Sullivan Plans A Batch Of New Magazine Launches
Peter Blackburn has been appointed as the president of the Incorporated Society of British Advertisers (ISBA). Blackburn is chairman and chief executive of Nestlé. He replaces Simon Bullimore at ISBA and will hold the position for two years.The ISBA Council has also chosen Chris Searle as joint vice-president. Searle is the executive director of Bacardi-Martini.ISBA:… Continue reading ISBA Gets New Chief
Associated New Media’s This Is London website (http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/) has won two awards at this year’s Yell UK Web Awards. The guide to business, news and entertainment in London scooped both Site of the Year and Best Online Publication from over 9,000 nominations.Martin Dunn, editor of This Is London, said: “This is a great honour, and… Continue reading This Is London Takes Yell Web Awards
ITV chief executive, Richard Eyre, is extolling the virtues of publicly-funded, public service broadcasting. He claims that the BBC is in danger of diluting its public service ethos, and that the Corporation should not be allowed to abandon its ‘high ground’ in pursuit of commercial competitiveness.Eyre has given a 20 page report to Chris Smith,… Continue reading ‘The BBC Is In Danger Of Diluting Its Public Service Ethos’, Says Richard Eyre
The Irish Times on the Web has received its second ABC //electronic audit for the period 3 March-2 April 1998. The website recorded 5,998,728 page impressions and 620,623 users.The site can be accessed at http://www.irish-times.com/.Subscribers can access the New Media Database by selecting “New Media” from the drop-down box at the top of this page.Irish… Continue reading Irish Times Website Receives 5.9m Impressions
