Average weekly cinema admissions fell 18.6% year on year in February to a figure of 2.53 million, according to the Cinema Advertising Association. This is compared to 3.11m in February last year. The total for the month was 10.122m, compared to 12.882 in 1996.Films in February included Sleepers, Evita, Shine and First Wives Club.The latest… Continue reading Cinema Admissions Fall Almost 19% In February
The Office of Telecommunications, OFTEL, has the job of regulating conditional access services for digital TV. OFTEL issued draft guidelines last December, aimed at ensuring access to conditional access services is fair reasonable and non-discriminatory between broadcasters *Oftel Aims For Fair Digital TV.The response to this draft led Don Cruickshank, director general of telecommunications, to… Continue reading Watchdog Barks At Digital TV
This week saw the second leg of both Champions League matches recently featured in Newsline‘s Programme Analysis of Live Football matches Programme Analysis: Live Football Matches W/E 09/03/97. This time both Newcastle and Manchester United played away, but still managed to achieve respectable audience figures. Manchester United verses Portuguese team FC Porto was watched by… Continue reading TV Viewing Summary W/E 23/03/97
The Times gave 5 seven out of ten for its first night’s programming. The digital countdown was branded ‘considerably less exciting than the Brazilian Grand Prix showing on ITV or Easter Songs of Praise on BBC1.’ The actual opening show was described as a ‘shameless half hour of self-promotion’, but then The Times decided that… Continue reading Channel 5 – What The Papers Say
IPC’s Music and Sport Group has announced a major restructure of its advertising sales operation. Siobhan Fitzpatrick is promoted to the key role of ad manager of IPC’s men’s lifestyle titles, including Eat Soup and Loaded, from ad manager for Vox, while Bruce Sandell is promoted to ad manager of the group’s new music and… Continue reading IPC Announces Advertising Restructure
Channel 5 was celebrating yesterday, having captured 5.8% of the prime time audience. Agency estimates show that 2.6 million people tuned into 5’s opening show on Sunday night and 1.8 million viewers stayed on to watch the first episode of the channel’s soap Family Affairs.Viewing Figures For Channel 5’s First Hour On Air Time Adults… Continue reading Channel 5 Pleased As Punch
Jessica Larive’s report on the Green Paper on Commercial Communications is now scheduled to be presented at the European Parliament’s Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee meeting on 21/22 April; its adoption in committee stage has been postponed until 21/22 May. Adoption of the draft report by the EP is expected to take place during the… Continue reading EU: Larive Report To Be Presented
ITV has today announced that it has acquired live and exclusive rights to both of the European Cup-Winner’s Cup semi-final legs between Liverpool and Paris St Germain.This will be in addition to its live coverage of the UEFA Champions League and means that on April 9 ITV will cover Man United v Borussia Dortmund and… Continue reading ITV Wins European Football Rights
BT has launched a new pricing option for Internet users who want on-line services but are not expecting to spend long periods on-line.Called Plan 180, it gives three hours access to BT Internet for £4.70 per month. BT say that, at the equivalent of 13p per day, this is one of the cheapest and most… Continue reading BT Targets Light Internet Users
Graduate Consumers, a survey sponsored by MTV and conducted by High Fliers Research, has found that the ‘Class of 97’ are ambitious, materialistic individuals who are enthusiastic users of the latest technology and are strongly influenced by the media.Over three quarters of finalists, 77%, watch BBC1 daily and two thirds saw ITV every day. Eastenders,… Continue reading Student Media Habits
