Telewest has handed over its Cable Adnet advertising sales operation to the Mirror Group’s Mirror Television arm.Mirror TV will now disband Cable Adnet and set up a new outfit called City Television Network, to be headed by Jon Waters who joins from Classic FM. The sales house will handle business for L!ve TV, the cable-only… Continue reading Telewest Ad Division Goes To Mirror Group
Most of the magazines in this sector showed good year on year increases, with Future’s Official Playstation Magazine performing the best. The title saw a growth of over 185% to 146,972 while the next best performer was EMAP’s Sega Saturn Magazine with an increase of 72% to 38,492. Title Jan 96 – Jun 96 Jan… Continue reading January To June 1997 ABCs – Computer Sector
The magazine with the greatest circulation increase in the TV Listings sector is yet again the Cable Guide, which saw an impressive increase of 76% (476,232 copies). This has the 4th largest circulation within the group but has seen a steady increase in circulation since its first ABC audit in 1994. Sky TV Guide which… Continue reading January To June 1997 ABCs – TV Listings Sector
The Department of Trade and Industry has decided against referring the planned takeover of Yorkshire Tyne Tees Television by Granada to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission. It is also understood that Mercury Asset Management has agreed to sell its 5% stake in YTTV to Granada.DTI: 0171 215 5972
The latest ABC figures for womens weeklies show that only two women titles have improved year on year. Hello! and OK Magazine have managed an increase of 3.5% and 29.34% respectively having circulation figures of 497,828 and 142,424. Title Jan 96 – Jun 96 Jan 97 – Jun 97 Actual Change % Change Chat 561,305… Continue reading January To June 1997 ABCs – Women Weeklies
Future’s Total Football will be relaunched from the September issue. As well as a new and more modern-looking masthead there is also a new style of layout and design inside. New columnists and contributors have also been signed up. These include Matt Lucas of Shooting Stars and Rogan Taylor, who is head of the football… Continue reading Relaunch For Total Football
The July Retail Price Index was announced this morning as 157.5, the same as June and a rise of 3.3% on July 1996.Subscribers can access RPI trends by selecting “Encyclomedia” from the drop-down box at the top of this page.
Damon Hill’s exploits in Sunday’s Formula One race meant that, according to figures from ITV, EastEnders had one of its lowest ever audiences. While ITV Formula One was watched by a peak of 5.1 million with a 50% share and an average of 4 million (44.5% share), EastEnders had an average audience of 1.4 million… Continue reading EastEnders Hit By Damon Factor
Mr Bean has broken Four Weddings And A Funeral‘s British box office record by taking £2.56 million over the weekend (August 8-10). The film came second however to the sci-fi comedy Men In Black which took £3.38 million. Four Weddings opened at the box office with £1.4 million and eventually went on to take £27.4… Continue reading Bean Nearly Silences Men In Black
The Radio Authority has awarded the new small scale local licences within East Sussex to three broadcasters: Arrow FM will cover the Hastings area with a “widely appealing” mix; Easy 107 will cover Eastbourne with “music you grew up with” as well as local news, information and entertainment; Surf 107 will broadcast to the Brighton… Continue reading Radio Authority Awards Licences
