Bids for Talk Radio are believed to be around the £20 million mark; well below the £60 million or so which owners CLT-ufa were hoping for. So far it is understood that only Kelvin MacKenzie and the management team at Talk have submitted bids to Luxembourg-based CLT (see CLT-ufa Receives Bids For Talk).Talk Radio has… Continue reading Talk Radio Sale
Haymarket Magazines is set to launch a new motor sport magazine called GPX on 12 July.The title intends to look at ‘the lighter side of the sport’ with interviews, gossip and news. GPX will be edited by Paul Fearnley and is priced £1.60. A first issue review will feature on Newsline.Haymarket also publishes F1 Racing… Continue reading Haymarket To Launch New Motor Racing Mag
Sky’s website, at http://www.sky.co.uk/, has recorded 7,247,337 page impressions for the ABC //electronic audit period 1-31 March 1998.Richard Foan of ABC //electronic said: “The Sky brand is well known in the market and we are pleased to have issued them with their first certificate.”Commercial manager at Sky, Paul Wright, said: “Our first audit not only… Continue reading Sky’s Website Records Over 7 Million Impressions
Sport First, the UK’s only dedicated sports newspaper, has axed its Monday edition after only a month and a half. The paper will now return to being published only on Sundays.The launch of the Monday edition in May (see Sport First To Publish Monday Edition) was part of Sport First‘s plans to become a seven… Continue reading Sport First Returns To One Day A Week
It has emerged that the management buyout bid for Talk Radio is being backed by both Guardian Media Group (GMG) and United News & Media (UNM).The bid for the 63% stake in Talk Radio was submitted to holders CLT-ufa last Friday. On Monday Kelvin MacKenzie’s consortium (see MacKenzie Leaves Mirror Group To Bid For Talk… Continue reading Talk Management Has Guardian And UNM Backing
The Newspaper Society (NS) and the Periodical Publishers Association (PPA) have announced a strategic alliance across their two sectors which have a combined revenue of over £9 billion.The alliance is to initially focus on four initiatives: representation in Brussels, UK public affairs, the establishment of a National Training Organisation (NTO) for all print media and… Continue reading NS And PPA Form Strategic Alliance
Brewing giant Bass has secured further football sponsorship in a £23 million deal to sponsor the League Cup. Formerly the Coca-Cola Cup, the competition will now be called the Worthington Cup.Bass’ Carling lager also sponsors the Premiership along with a number of second tier sponsors including the Daily Telegraph and Sony (see Daily Telegraph To… Continue reading Coca-Cola Cup Becomes Worthington Cup
Flextech and UKTV have signed a carriage deal with BSkyB which will see their channels launched on Sky’s digital platform which is set to begin broadcasting in August.The agreement secures carriage for ten Flextech/UKTV channels. These will include Flextech’s wholly-owned channels, Bravo, Challenge TV, Living and Trouble.UKTV, which is a joint venture between Flextech and… Continue reading Sky Digital Will Carry Flextech And UKTV Channels
The agonising World Cup defeat of England by Argentina after a penalty shootout last night was watched by a peak audience of 26 million according unofficial overnight figures. This, according to ITV, is the highest ever number of people tuning into a television programme on any single channel. The game achieved an average audience of… Continue reading England’s Epic Defeat Gains 26m Viewers
As with last month all but Women showed increases in impacts for ITV year on year for May. Again, the biggest increase was with Housewives/Children up 8.2%. Overall ITV Adults impacts were up 1.9%. Conversely, Channel 4 lost impacts across all audience categories. Channel 5 continues to improve in leaps and bounds with all audience… Continue reading TV Revenue – May 1998
