Two bastions of English traditionalism, the BBC and Test match cricket, are likely to break their historical bond as the sport becomes available to satellite television.Rupert Murdoch’s BSkyB has emerged as favourite to broadcast England’s home games following the announcement by Chris Smith, Secretary of State for Culture, that cricket would no longer be the… Continue reading BBC Set To Lose Live Test Cricket To Sky
Moss Bros, the menswear specialists, are to sponsor sports bulletins on LBC 1152 AM and News Direct 97.3FM, London News Radio’s two stations. Three of the Moss Bros Group’s brands will feature – Moss Bros, Blazer and Savoy Taylors’ Guild.The package includes title sponsorship, sponsor credits on-air competitions and promotions. London News Radio is handling… Continue reading London News Radio Gains New Sponsorship Deal and Awards
The Radio Joint Audience Research today gave a new, four-year contract to the research contractor IPSOS-RSL. The company already holds the current Rajar contract but had to compete with four other rivals for the £11 million deal (see RAJAR To Announce New Research Contract).The decision was unanimous, with the joint board of Rajar – made… Continue reading RAJAR Announce New Contract Award And New Methodology
The much sought after Talk Radio (see Talk Radio Management Submits Bid) has launched its own website which is sponsored by Nationwide Building Society.The site, at http://www.talk-radio.co.uk/, is dubbed ‘the site of two halves’ and its entrance is divided between those who ‘Love Football’ and those who ‘Hate Football’.Talk Radio: 0171 636 1089
The data gathered by the Quality of Reading Survey (QRS) (see Quality of Reading Survey Launched Today) has now been fused with that of the National Readership Survey (NRS). The resulting magazine and newspaper readership information is held in a database which is accessible by agencies and publishers who subscribe to the NRS through the… Continue reading Merged QRS And NRS Readership Data Now Available
The ITC is to hold a press conference tommorrow at 10:30am at its offices at 33 Foley Street, London, to announce how it intends to implement new regulations concerning channel bundling of cable and satellite television channels (see ITC Denies Backtracking On ‘Unbundling’ Strategy).Details will appear on Newsline as they are available.Independent Television Commission: 0171… Continue reading Channel Bundling Rules
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%, C4’s rose 16.1% and C5’s once again saw the greatest relative gain – up 19.8%; GMTV lost 9.8%.A full TV Round-Up will follow shortly on… Continue reading TV Revenue – May 1998
Culture Secretary Chris Smith, yesterday told the Commercial Radio Companies Association (CRCA) that the Government will seek to act to promote ‘the emergence of new services’ in the commercial radio industry rather than ‘consolidating existing positions of industrial dominance.’ He spoke of a light-touch in Governmental regulation and said that the fundamental aims were plurality,… Continue reading Chris Smith Warns Radio Industry Against Industrial Dominance
US telecoms giant AT&T announced yesterday that it was to merge with even larger US cable television company TCI. As a result, two TCI part-owned UK cable companies, Telewest and Flextech, both saw their share prices rise.Telewest Communications rose 29˝p to 159˝p and Flextech saw an increase of 62˝p to 551˝p.
Jim Chisholm has been appointed as commercial director for the two Scottish titles, Daily Record and Sunday Mail.Chisholm also runs his own media consultancy and has worked at a number of newspaper publishers in his career. He will be responsible for driving commercial development at the two Mirror Group titles.Mirror Group: 0171 293 3000
