Dennis Publishing has said that it will no longer be publishing the Ministry of Sound’s Ministry magazine. The title, described as a magazine “by clubbers for clubbers”, launched in December last year.Ministry says that it intends to continue publishing, either on its own or as part of a larger publishing house.Ministry Of Sound: 0171 378… Continue reading Dennis Splits With Ministry Mag
Sky today said that it still believes pay-per-view is the way forward for football TV coverage, despite the Premier League’s announcement that it would not be proceeding with the broadcaster’s PPV plans (see Premiership Votes Against PPV Proposals).Sky was allegedly proposing to move four matches per week from Saturdays to Sundays and charge viewers £10… Continue reading Sky Maintains PPV Ambitions
Premiership chairmen have today voted against TV coverage proposals from BSkyB which would have included the introduction of pay-per-view matches next season.More details will appear on Newsline as soon as they are available.Premier League: 0171 976 7886
Flextech’s teenager cable channel Trouble has forged a deal with teenage magazine publisher Attic Futura that will see cross endorsements and editorial ‘interweaving’.Attic Futura publishes the titles B, Sugar, Inside Soap and TV Hits. The deal, worth over £350,000, will see TV Hits sponsoring Trouble’s chart programme Blast! from June. Trouble has agreed to commit… Continue reading Flextech’s Trouble Links With Attic Futura
The Mirror Group is launching a free newspaper dedicated to the Canary Wharf area of London.The Wharf will launch in September and will be distributed to more than 20,000 blue-chip workers employed in the Canary Wharf complex, including the staff of Morgan Stanley, BZW, Ogilvy & Mather and Credit Suisse.The title’s content will be focused… Continue reading Mirror Group To Launch The Wharf
As with last month, most of ITV’s audiences showed an increase in impacts year on year for April. The biggest increase was with Housewives/Children which increased 5.8%. Overall for ITV Adults impacts were up 1.6%. By contrast Channel 4 has lost impacts in all categories bar Men which was up 5.2%.CPTs for ITV were up… Continue reading TV Round-Up – April
Dialog Corportion, the company formed from the merger of MAID and Knight-Ridder (see MAID Shareholders Approve Knight-Ridder Takeover), today announced turnover of £44.8 million for the first quarter of 1998, up from £6.7m the previous year. Pre-tax profits, however, grew more slowly, up from £2.3m to £2.5m.The company said that the integration of the MAID… Continue reading Dialog Sees Benefits Of Merger
Revenue Agency estimates put the total terrestrial TV ad revenue figure for April at £234.830m, up 14.1%, reflecting a buoyant month for almost all of the terrestrial channels.ITV’s total revenue went up 13.8% to £165.570m, C4’s increased 14.1% to £50.790m and C5’s rose an impressive 29.3% to £12.5m. GMTV slipped 2.5% to £5.970m.Among the ITV… Continue reading TV Round-Up – April
Tina Gaudoin, editor of Wagadon Publishing’s first women’s title Frank, is to leave the magazine less than a year after it launched in September 1997 (see A Frank New Title For Women). She will continue to work on Frank until the August issue.Gaudoin says that she could not manage the editor’s post as well as… Continue reading Wagadon’s Frank To Lose Editor
7.81 million tuned in to watch the F.A. Cup Final on ITV, with 590,000 watching Sky’s coverage. One of the many big ‘TV sporting occasions’ where the need to refine the BARB method of registering ‘outside the home’ viewing is drawn to our attention once more. Most of the pubs (and indeed viewers in them)… Continue reading TV Viewing Summary W/E 17/05/98
