National display advertising revenue in the regional and local press has grown by 14.4% year on year to £55.5 million for the first quarter of this year, according to the Advertising Association’s latest survey. This is the highest growth the regional press industry has achieved in a decade.It also outperforms TV (up 6.7%), national press… Continue reading Regional Press Ad Revenue Grows
Carlton Communications today announced that it had acquired rights to the Rohauer Film Collection, which includes over 600 films, for its digital TV movie channel as well as export abroad.The collection contains mainly early films such as The Birth of a Nation, The Mark of Zorro, The Thief of Bagdad and The Phantom of the… Continue reading Carlton Buys More Films
IPC Magazines has announced the appointment of Marcelle d’Argy Smith as editor of Woman’s Journal . Smith left Cosmopolitan two and a half years ago and will take up her new position next month. She aims to make Journal more appealing to older women, who she believes so far are “only being catered for in… Continue reading New Editors Appointed
Media research company MAGtrack has poached Julia Setterfield, Press Gazette‘s ad manager. She has worked on the trade title for the past three years.Setterfield will join MAGtrack today with the brief of spearheading the sales of the new “NETtest” product which evaluates visitors to Websites.MAGtrack: 0171 437 4337
Eliot Lowe has joined TMD Direct Manchester as an associate director, it has been announced. Lowe’s primary brief is to work on the JD Williams account in a strategic capacity as well as supporting the existing teams in the new business and planning fields.Lowe will also work with Ray Sweeney, TMD Carat Manchester Group’s planning… Continue reading Senior Signing For TMD Direct Manchester
The Britvic/Still Tango team at HHCL & Partners has won the July radio advertising Aerial award. Judges Mick Mahoney and Andy Amadeo of Lowe Howard-Spink chose “Hotline” as the winning commercial because “it took the best bits from the rest of the campaign and made us laugh the most. It has a radio format, but… Continue reading Britvic/Still Tango Win July Aerial Award
BSkyB’s shares fell 11p to 470p on Thursday ahead of the company’s financial results which were announced on Friday. Despite a 22% increase in profits, there appeared to be a general consensus in the market that the figures were disappointing: the broadcaster’s shares slipped 33 to 437p. There is also the fear that future competition,… Continue reading Sharewatch – W/E 15/8/97
Mirror Group is rumoured to be in discussions with Cable & Wireless Communications regarding the setting up of a cable TV advertising sales house. This has been sparked off by last week’s news that Mirror Group would be taking control of Telewest’s Adnet sales house (subscribers see Telewest Ad Division Goes To Mirror Group) and… Continue reading Mirror Group In Talks With CWC
Non-terrestrial television households are set to grow by 1.1 million to 6.8 million by the end of 1997, according to a new survey from Mintel. By the end of 1996 dish sales/rentals had reached 3.8 million and looks set to exceed 4 million by the end of this year. However, cable connections last year exceeded… Continue reading Good Growth Predicted For Cable/Satellite
Agency estimates put the total terrestrial TV revenue for July at £160.320m. Of this, ITV brought in £116.25m (down 2.4% year on year), Channel 4 £36m (down 0.9%) and C5 £8.07m (down 16% on last month). GMTV’s June revenue fell 6.4% to £5.71m.LWT put in the strongest performance among the ITV areas, with a year… Continue reading TV Revenue – July
