The main mover last week in the media industry was Pearson, which began the week on 692.5p and finished on 777.5p. This was as a result of the group’s better-than-expected interim results on Monday and chief executive Marjorie Scardino’s bullish statement that the company would double its value within five years.Telewest Communications benefited from confirmation… Continue reading Sharewatch W/E 08/08/97
Tuesday The Retail Prices Index for July will be announced.Thursday MAID and WPP Group announce interim results while Media Business Group releases final figures. It is expected that WPP will see a rise in profits from £68m to around £78m, though the strength of sterling could leave revenue static. Media Business is expected to see… Continue reading The Week Ahead
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
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
Haymarket Magazines has announced that it is suspending the television magazine The Box with immediate effect. The title had been selling less than the company’s expectations.Simon Daukes, Publishing Director at Haymarket, said: “The resources in investment and people that were being devoted to The Box will now be focused on several other projects that we… Continue reading Haymarket Suspended The Box
The Capital Radio Group once again has the highest weekly reach in the London sector with an overall reach of 35%. 95.8 Capital FM has the highest share of listeners for an individual station (up 0.6% to 17.7% year on year) and 1548 Capital has the second highest figures with an increase of 0.3% taking… Continue reading Q2 Rajar Figures: London Stations
Quarter 2 Rajar figures released today show that for all local commercial radio stations, audience share rose to 40.2% from 38.5% last year, with weekly reach rising from 49% to 50%.Amongst the Stations reporting for the first time this quarter there was a good result from Mix 96 which acheived a weekly reach of 34%… Continue reading Rajar Q2 1997- Local Commercial Summary
IPC Magazines is appointing Eileen Melville to the position of advertisement systems director across all three of the company’s publishing groups.David Gibbs left his position as research executive at BSkyB last week to take up a new role at Flextech.IPC: 0171 261 6575Flextech: 0171 299 5000
Commercial radio has continued it’s upward trend in it’s battle for listeners against the BBC. It’s 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%. Meanwhile the BBC went from being marginally behind in 1996 with 48.6%, to… Continue reading Commercial Radio Success Continues
