Northcliffe Newspapers Group Ltd and Newsquest Media Group Ltd are closing UK News, their jointly owned national news agency, at the end of June. PA News is taking over UK News contracts to supply news and sports services to their daily newspapers.PA has also guaranteed to supply the seven other regional evening newspapers, currently receiving… Continue reading UK News Closes
Daily Quality Market The Daily Telegraph is still the highest selling paper in this sector, selling 1,132,789 copies in May. This represents a 6.5% market share and an 8.9% increase for the last 6 monthly period year-on-year. The Times is also seeing an increase in sales in this period rising from 669,640 from December to… Continue reading National Press Round-Up – May ABCs
Coronation Street comes out on top this week with an average audience of 13.65 million over its four episodes. The real story in the soap world is the rout of Eastenders on Thursday, which only drew an audience of 8.97 million. In its place Emmerdale reigned supreme that evening with another hour long special. The… Continue reading TV Weekly Viewing Summary W/E 25/05/97
http://www.greenblob.comGreen Blob is the surreal name the network, part of Ogilvy & Mather, has chosen for its Web site. You need to surf around the blob for a while to learn the context of the ambiguous looking section links, but once you have acclimatised you will enjoy the contents.The news section runs down what has… Continue reading Web Site Of The Week – the network
The Media Centre topped the Radio Advertising Bureau’s league of top radio buying points in April, according to its May Newsletter, with £18.9m. Zenith came second with £14.7m and Universal McCann third with £11.5m.Top Advertisers to April 97 included COI with £7m, Dixons Stores Group with £5.7m and Carphone Warehouse with £5.6m.RAB: 0171 306 2500
WPP has bought a 14.4% share in its former rival, CIA Group. WPP is now the largest single share holder in CIA. The £13.5 million stake could mean that the two groups will work together to buy advertising space. It also leaves CIA open to a takeover bid from WPP. Although WPP stress that the… Continue reading WPP Takes A Slice Of CIA
Cable & Wireless is sponsoring the first-ever powered vessel bid to circumnavigate the globe in less than 80 days. The vessel, Cable & Wireless, leaves Gibraltar next April on its 26,000 mile worldwide journey.
Channel 5’s sales director Nick Milligan has had to reduce his initial forecasts for share of adult and 16-34 impacts. Milligan has written to agencies saying that, due to analysis of the first Channel 5 BARB data, he has dropped his adult impacts forecast from 10% by the end of the year to 7% and… Continue reading C5 Reduce Impact Forecasts
The Radio Authority has fined Leicester Sound £5,000 for failing to reach the minimum speech levels required in its programming.Spectrum International Radio has also been fined £5,000 for failure to observe the rules on due impartiality and undue prominence. A discussion programme aimed at Asian listeners featured undue prominence of particular views from a politician,… Continue reading Fines For Radio Stations
Chris Smith, the heritage secretary, is reported to be considering ending the Channel 4 funding formula. The system, where by Channel 4 is forced to make regular payments to the ITV companies, is now up for review. Smith has written to all the interested parties asking for views on the continued need for this funding… Continue reading Channel 4 Funding Up For Review
