Following a recent price-cut promotion *Express Cuts PricesThe Express on Saturday put its price up by 10p to 30p last Saturday. It will remain at the 30p price this Saturday, although it will still be on sale for 20p in Scotland. The price is being reviewed on a weekly basis.The 20p edition had apparently given… Continue reading Express Price Cut Ends
Agency estimates put the total terrestrial television revenue for January at £166.65m. Of this, ITV brought in £128.15m, up 1.06% year on year, and Channel 4 came in at £38.5m, up 9.47%. Among the ITV franchises Carlton performed well with a year on year increase of 1.58% points to reach a share of 18.13%. The… Continue reading TV Revenue – January
The Independent Television Commission has received one application for the local cable delivery franchise for South Cumbria. South Cumbria Cable & Telecoms, a company backed by the US Cable Corporation, proposes to offer service to 61,500 homes in the area by the end of 2002. The company offered a bid of £21,525. The ITC will… Continue reading ITC Receives Application For South Cumbria Cable Licence
A new consumer travel magazine, Holidays has launched. The monthly full-colour glossy retails at £1.95 and is published by Exeter-based, Icon Publishing.With an initial print-run of 40,000, Holidays is aiming at AB adults who take at least one foreign holiday per-year. According to the publishers, this group spends in excess of £6 billion annually on… Continue reading Holidays For As Little As £1.95
The Telegraph has now redrafted its complaint to the ABC, withdrawing its demand that all figure’s for The Times’ Monday editions since June 3 1996 must be restatedIn the original complaint, The Telegraph claimed that ABC should not classify the cut-price edition of The Times as a sale as the paper gained nothing financially from… Continue reading ABC Dispute Update
Channel 5 is rumoured to be planning a contract magazine to support its launch. The channel has approached Zone, the publishers of the Manchester United magazine, to produce 5 Magazine, a 32 page title.If the plan goes ahead, the title will be sent to over 2 million homes on the launch date and inserted into… Continue reading Channel 5 Magazine To Launch
Granada Sky Broadcasting will be launching a new masthead programme called the Zest Beauty Show on 31 March after tying up a deal with National Magazines’ Zest title. The show will go out on GSB’s Health and Beauty channel and will be presented by Julia Carling.The show will be the second programme to take advantage… Continue reading GSB To Launch Masthead Show
Rocket, a member of the PHD group, has instigated a management shake-up. John Harlow, previously the associate media director at Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO, has joined Rocket as media director, and Tim Forest becomes the third member of the agency’s management team. Rocket is now looking to recruit a fourth senior executive. Rocket is hoping… Continue reading Rocket Takes More People On Board
A report carried out by Datamonitor concludes that the European CD hardware market will almost double over the next five years. By 2001 this market is expected to reach 16 million units, 24% of which will be accounted for by business purchases.The consumer sales sector currently accounts for 79% of sales, while education and business… Continue reading CD Market To Nearly Double By 2001
The Evening Standard has lost two staff this week; Jill Guthrie, the client sales manager and Vicki Beazley, ad manager at ES Magazine have both departed. Richard Wilson, head of advertising at Emap Nationals will fill Guthrie’s shows.Meanwhile, Sunday Business‘s editor Anil Bhoyrul has left the paper; it is hoped that a new editor will… Continue reading Media Moves
