There was very little year on year change among most paid-for regional titles for this period. Overall for July-December 1997 there were 8.883 million copies sold, up 0.21% on the previous year.Among the top ten paid-for titles in the UK by circulation, the daily Manchester Evening News showed the biggest increase with a rise of… Continue reading Regional ABCs – Paid-For Titles July – December 1997
The Observer will be running a series of exclusive extracts from Nick Hornby’s much anticipated new novel About A Boy. It will begin in next Sunday’s edition of the Observer‘s Life magazine.To complement the serialisation, the Observer is giving readers the opportunity to buy the novel off the page at the discounted price of £12.99… Continue reading Observer To Run Novel Serialisation
ABC //electronic has issued Soccernet (http://www.soccernet.com) with its first electronic audit certificate. The website recorded 7,863,846 page impressions for the period 15 November to 14 December 1997.The site is published by Associated Newspapers’ new media division, Associated New Media and offers coverage of football from around the world.Soccernet editor, Greg Hadfield says: “We are experiencing… Continue reading Soccernet Achieves Almost 8 Million Impressions
Not all regional free titles have reported VFD figures for the period Jul 97 – Dec 97; they have been discounted in this analysis. The London-based Informer Series has achieved the highest circulation of all the regional free titles in this period, recording a VFD figure of 484,131. However, this represents a fall of 2.6%… Continue reading Regional VFDs – Free Titles July – December 1997
Channel 4’s US comedy series Frasier is to be sponsored by Ericsson in a deal worth around £500,000. The deal represents Ericsson’s first sponsorship contract.The association begins on 27 March and will run until 19 June. The same sponsorship will then run on the repeat showing of the series which is to be broadcast this… Continue reading Ericsson To Sponsor Frasier
Claire Blizard, currently group advertisement manager for IPC Magazines’ photography and angling titles has been promoted to advertisement sales controller for the company’s angling, gardening and photography titles. She will report to head of sales Kevin Attridge.This move brings together all the joint display and classified teams and effects the following changes: Sam Finlay, currently… Continue reading Management Changes At IPC Magazines
A new report from the ITC, using two Citizens’ Juries, has confirmed that television regulation, including the watershed, is essential in protecting children.The report, entitled Television on Trial: Citizens’ Juries on Taste and Decency, also found that both juries felt that if enough information was given for adults to make knowledgeable choices, which could include… Continue reading Public Wants TV Regulation, ITC Report Finds
The Media Business Group (TMBG) has announced to the stock exchange that it has been approached by an undisclosed party which has expressed an interest in making an offer for the Group. TMBG stresses the tentative nature of these discussions and maintains that they may or may not lead to an offer for the company.TMBG… Continue reading Media Business Group In Preliminary Takeover Talks
Sport First launched on Sunday amid not much more than a trickle of publicity (I was waiting for the ads to come along during Sky’s football and cricket coverage, but if they did I missed them. Perhaps too over the moon over Overmars). I gather there was a supporting radio campaign.The new title runs to… Continue reading First Issue Review – Sport First
The February Retail Prices Index was announced this morning as 160.3, an increase of 0.5% on the previous month and a rise of 3.4% on February 1997.Subscribers can access RPI trends by selecting “Encyclomedia” from the drop-down box at the top of this page.
