Total national newspaper circulation was down by 3.1% year on year for the ABC period January-June 1998, from 27.8 million to 26.9 million. This represents a loss of 860,000 copies across the whole national newspaper market.Circulation for The Guardian is not included in these figures as the newspaper supplied ABC with data that was incorrect.… Continue reading National Newspaper ABC Summary – June 1998
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
MTV Europe has entered partnership with independent UK radio producers, Unique Productions, to create the new company MTV Radio Productions (MTVRP).The venture will pool the resources of MTV with the production skills of Unique to create music-based radio programmes that can be commissioned by the BBC and commercial radio stations in the UK and across… Continue reading MTV Secures Unique Radio Deal
The Bank of England brought some respite to beleaguered homebuyers and businesses when it decided not to raise the cost of borrowing.Members of the Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee left interest rates unchanged at 7.5%.There was outcry last month when rates were raised by 0.25% to the current level, prompting fears that the mounting cost of… Continue reading Interest Rate Stays Unchanged
Chic magazine is to be closed just months after it was relaunched by publishers Northern & Shell (see Chic To Relaunch After Two Years).The publishers claim that WH Smith is demanding trading margins which are too high to keep the magazine viable with its current circulation. Until the dispute is settled the magazine will be… Continue reading Chic To Close Straight After Relaunch
Capital Interactive, the new media arm of Capital Radio, has won the KPMG/NTL Award for technical excellence at this year’s Commercial Radio Awards.Douglas McCallum, head of Capital Interactive, says: “The award from the CRCA is testimony to the continuing creative excellence from a Capital Interactive team that has produced websites of the highest order.”The Capital… Continue reading Capital Interactive Wins Technical Excellence Award
Channel 5 has held discussions with the Independent Television Commission (ITC) to draw up a set of criteria that will be used to rent out its spare digital terrestrial frequency (see Channel 5 To Offer Surplus Digital Frequencies). It is understood that BSkyB would not be prevented from using this capacity as was mooted earlier… Continue reading Channel 5 Digital Capacity May Run Sky Sports
Latest figures from the Newspaper Society (NS) report that Britain’s regional and local press has enjoyed a rise in total advertising revenue of 8.5% to £2.237 billion between 1996 and 1997.“The AA figures tell a tremendous story for the regional press, which is outperforming the advertising market as a whole and growing at a faster… Continue reading Regional Press Advertising Shows Strong Growth
Following a public interest test, the Radio Authority (RA) has decided that the proposed takeover of London alternative station XFM by Capital Radio will be allowed to go ahead (see Capital’s Xfm Move Dependent On Watchdogs).The Authority has determined that the takeover would not be expected to operate against the public interest in terms of… Continue reading Capital Receives Go-Ahead On Xfm Takeover
As from tomorrow the offices of the National Readership Survey (NRS) have been relocated to:42 Drury Lane London WC2H 5RNTel: 0171 632 2915 Fax: 0171 632 2916The NRS website can be found at http://www.nrs.co.uk/ and is part of the Media Village (http://www.mediavillage/).
