Capital Radio has appointed John Kershaw as regional director, group radio. He joins Capital with 12 years’ experience of running regional press titles, most recently at United Southern Newspapers, part of United News & Media.Sally Oldham, Capital’s managing director, says: “John joins Capital with a totally fresh perspective on commercial radio plus an impressive track… Continue reading Capital Radio Appoints Regional Director
The Newspaper Society held its annual Weekly Newspaper Awards on Monday night at which the Essex Chronicle won weekly paid-for newspaper of the year and the Hunts Post won weekly free newspaper of the year for the second year running.The Newspaper Society represents 1,400 daily and weekly newspaper titles in the UK.Newspaper Society: 0171 636… Continue reading Newspaper Society Announces Weeklies Award Winners
Revenue Agency estimates for May 1998 put total terrestrial TV ad revenue at £250.38 million, a rise year on year for all the channels but GMTV.ITV’s total revenue was up 19% to £177.10 million, C4’s rose 16.1% to £54.00 million and C5’s once again saw the greatest relative gain – up 19.8% to £13.18 million.… Continue reading TV Round-Up – May 1998
The UK broadband cable universe reached 2˝ million homes and 5 million individuals in March 1998 according to industry and ITC research conducted by RSMB TV. This represents a 15% growth since September 1997.The growth of cable continues to exceed the rate of growth for direct to home (DTH, ie. satellite), and cable homes now… Continue reading Broadband Cable Reaches 2˝ Million Homes
Kelvin MacKenzie’s consortium (see MacKenzie Leaves Mirror Group To Bid For Talk Radio) has made an offer for Talk Radio which is believed to be around the £20 million mark. A bid from Talk’s management team last week (see Talk Radio Management Submits Bid) is also thought to be valued at £15-20 million.CLT-ufa has been… Continue reading CLT-ufa Receives Bids For Talk
In its first annual report, the Broadcasting Standards Commission’s (BSC) chairman, Lady Howe, has today said that there are three issues which arise from the nature of complaints and research that should be considered more closely.Firstly, the BSC is concerned about informed consent of individuals to appear in documentaries and docu-soaps. “Sometimes participants are aware… Continue reading BSC Expresses Concern On 3 Broadcasting Issues
This question is to be answered at the next MRG Evening by drawing on a study commissioned by TSMS. The research examined attentive viewing levels to 14,000 programmes by genre across all terrestrial and 10 satellite channels.The results of this study will be revealed at the meeting which is held at the Leo Burnett, 60… Continue reading How Much Attention Do Viewers Really Pay To TV Channels?
EMAP Metro will launch a spin-off addition to FHM called FHM Collections. It will focus on upmarket labels such as Ralph Lauren and Calvin Klein and will be targeted at male “dedicated followers of fashion”.The title will launch on 18th September and have a print run of between 100,000 and 120,000. The cover price will… Continue reading FHM To Launch Collectors’ Item
The Periodical Publishers Association (PPA) has met with the ITC to propose a number of changes to the Commission’s masthead programming code which was unveiled in April (see ITC Extends Masthead Programming To Terrestrial).The PPA is hoping to convince the ITC to relax its restrictions surrounding the duplication of material from the magazine on the… Continue reading PPA Seeks To Clarify Magazines’ Masthead Restrictions
The release of the June 1997 – May 1998 readership estimates from NRS has been delayed, and is now scheduled for release on Monday 6 July.However, data collected in June ’97 for national newspapers will not be included in the NRS figures. The data to be released will therefore cover the 11 month period July… Continue reading NRS Data Release Delayed
