Revenue Agency estimates put terrestrial TV revenue for March at £192.070m, which is an increase of 5.83% on the previous year. Of this, ITV brought in £148.070m (up 10.05%) and Channel 4 £44m (up 11.39%). This puts the ITV:C4 ratio at 77:23. GMTV’s revenue was put at £6.4m, up 6.3%, and total cable/satellite reached £17m.Among… Continue reading TV Round-Up – March
The board of Cordiant has announced the appointment of Kevin Roberts as chief executive of Saatchi & Saatchi Advertising Worldwide.Roberts, 47, will take over from Ed Wax on 21 May. Mr Wax will relinquish his position as chief executive but will remain as chairman until the end of the year. From January 1998 he will… Continue reading New Chief Executive For Saatchi
Michael Jackson, the controller of BBC1, has been appointed as chief executive of Channel 4. The 39-year old will replace Michael Grade on June 1. Jackson had been at BBC1 for 10 years.Channel 4: 0171 396 4444
Gordon Brown, the new Chancellor, today raised interest rates by 0.25% to 6.25%.
Channel 5 will be launching a major advertising campaign this weekend urging people to tune in their TV sets for England’s next World Cup qualifying clash with Poland on May 31.The campaign begins with commercials on nearly 40 radio stations nationwide which explain that videos do not need to be retuned to pick up an… Continue reading C5 Launches Campaign To Promote England Game
The Radio Authority has confirmed the timetable for digital commercial radio, which is set to bring a new generation of commercial radio services on-air by 1999. The RA has also said that it will be providing £100,000 toward the funding of further technical field-trials of the new digital technology, which will provide room for more… Continue reading RA Publishes Timetable For Digital Radio
LBC 1152 and News Direct 97.3 have recorded audience increases of 30% across some day parts as a result of the General Election, according to a tracking survey carried out by Hallett Arendt. According to Nigel Reeve, managing director of LBC and News Direct, there has also been a decline in some areas of music… Continue reading LBC And News Direct Benefit From Election
Quarter 1 1997 RAJAR figures, released this afternoon, shows that commercial radio has once again moved ahead of the BBC after increasing its share of listening to 49.4%; 1% point ahead of the BBC.National commercial stations did not perform well, with all showing a year on year drop in weekly reach. Talk Radio and Virgin… Continue reading Rajar Q1 1997 – Summary
The University of Ulster will be carrying out the first ever Cross-Media Survey for Northern Ireland.This survey aims to provide a comprehensive analysis of the nature of the media audience in Northern Ireland. In taking a demographically-representative sample of 400, and documenting their entire range of media consumption, the Northern Ireland Cross-Media Survey aims to… Continue reading Media Survey For Northern Ireland
Jane Ennis has been appointed editor of Now magazine. She was previously editor of Here! which was bought by IPC from G&J last week.The last issue of Here! goes on sale next Tuesday, May 6, bagged with a sample copy of Now. After this, Here! will be incorporated into the IPC title. Ennis takes over… Continue reading New Editors At IPC Titles
