Commercial radio has continued its upward trend in its battle for listeners against the BBC. Its share for the second quarter of 1997 shows that the majority of listeners chose commercial stations. The 50.2% slice of the market improved year-on-year from 49.3%.Yet on the national scale a decrease was evident with the 10.1% figure recorded… Continue reading Commercial Radio Increases Its Majority Share
Southern Newspapers has appointed Jonathan Shepherd Managing Director of SN Magazines, following the company’s decision to move into the magazine sector. His role, based in London, will be to build a strong portfolio of titles through launches and acquisition.Southern Newspapers already owns Southernprint (Web Offset) Ltd one of the UK’s main magazine printers and publishes… Continue reading Southern Newspapers Moves Into Magazine Market
According to a report carried out by BMRB on behalf of Mintel Marketing Intelligence around 86% of the people read a regional newspaper of some type. 60% of those questioned read weekly free newspapers, compared to only 25% for dailies.The research also found that single most important reason for buying regional newspapers was to obtain… Continue reading Future Looks Bright For Regional Papers
Chris Evans departure from the Breakfast Show continues to have a negative effect on Radio 1’s listening figures. The station lost one and a half million listeners according to year on year comparison figures for Rajar Quarter 2 1997. The number of people tuning in to listen to Radio 1 fell by 12.2% from 11.006… Continue reading BBC Sheds More Listeners
Quarter 2 1997 Rajar figures were released today with the results showing that commercial radio is up by 0.8% point on Q1 having a share of 50.2%For the first time ever achieving over 40% was commercial radio with a figure of 40.2%. The share of listeners aged 15-24 has risen from 60.9% to 66.5% over… Continue reading Rajar Q2 1997- Summary
The Sunday Telegraph recorded the highest year-on-year increase in both percentage and actual terms, with a July ABC of 856,598. July was also a good month for Associated Newspapers with all three titles once again recording increases.The Sunday Sport was the only popular title to record a year-on-year increase, although its July circulation of 280,292… Continue reading July National Newspaper ABCs
The latest Television Viewing report for the second quarter of 1997 shows that viewing has risen slightly to 3.41 hours of average daily viewing. This reverses the decline over the last two quarters.The report also found that Channel 5 has captured a weekly viewing share of just under 3%, plus a 5% of commercial viewing.… Continue reading IPA Second Quarter Trends Report – Channel 5 Watched By 3%
TMP Worldwide is in the process of trying to buy Austin Knight, it has emerged. David Basham, Corporate Affairs Director at Austin Knight, told MediaTel: “TMP has made an offer and this is now subject to a shareholders meeting on 22 September.”The Austin Knight identity will be retained and no immediate changes are planned. TMP’s… Continue reading TMP Set To Buy Austin Knight
Danny Baker’s Saturday evening football phone-in programme, 5.30 – 7.30pm on Talk Radio, is to be sponsored by the News of the World newspaper. The deal, worth £250,000, runs throughout the 1997/97 football season and follows the news that Talk Radio has secured the football commentary rights for the Nationwide League previously held by Radio… Continue reading News Of The World To Sponsor Baker Show
William Arnold, previously publishing director at EMAP Media and responsible for the development of Brad’s electronic service has been appointed Business Development Director of the high-tech Internet news service, NEWSdesk International Limited. Arnold will preside over the expansion of the NEWSdesk formula into other industry sectors.At the same time, Jane Brown, former publisher of Press… Continue reading Arnold Leaves EMAP For NEWSdesk
