Two new bi-monthly IT magazines, Compuship and Move-IT will launch in the Spring.London-based TLA Publishing is the team behind the titles.Compuship will launch in March and is to cover mobile satellite communications, information technology and electronics for shipping. Move-IT will be on the news-stands in April and will do the same for land-mobile and remote… Continue reading New IT Titles
The Telegraph group has submitted a complaint to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, ABC, over the 10p Monday edition of the Times .The Telegraph claim that ABC should not classify the cut-price edition of The Times as a sale as there is no financial gain for the paper from the Monday editions. The news-vendors who… Continue reading Telegraph In Dispute With Times
The Independent is moving its Media section from a Tuesday to a Monday.The paper is expanding its media section into a stand-alone tabloid section on 17 February 1997. The Guardian ‘s media section is also published on a Monday and it recently relaunched as a stand-alone tabloid *Supplement Review – Media Guardian. The new Independent… Continue reading Media Independent To Go Head To Head With Media Guardian
The UK’s largest TV air-time sales house, TSMS, is launching a new media sales and marketing house aimed at the interactive market. The new division, TSMS Interactive or TSMSi, is hoping to help advertisers promote their interactive media. TSMSi will be concerned with the Internet, CD-Roms, interactive TV, company Intranets and kiosks. The new division… Continue reading TSMS Goes Interactive
The television sector was again the focus of market attention due to its plans, or lack of, for terrestrial digital TV.At the start of the week those broadcasters not involved in the consortiums again experienced large price drops: Scottish Television fell 81.5p to 546p, Yorkshire-Tyne Tees dropped 80p to 1,102.5p, HTV lost 30p and Ulster… Continue reading Sharewatch W/E 07/02/97
The latest Rajar figures reveal that the BBC has extended its lead over commercial radio to 1.3%. The BBC obtained 49.6% of total audience share, compared with commercial radio’s 48.3%. BBC’s radio share is up more than 2% year-on-year.Radio 1’s reach was down to 10.7 million from 11.2 million in the previous quarter while Radio… Continue reading Q4 Rajar Figures – Summary
David Jason makes a welcome return to ITV this week with the new series of A Touch Of Frost soaring straight into the top ten with an audience of 16.75 million. ITV drama is continuing to grow in standing, with Frost merely following up the progress which London’s Burning made in its last series. The… Continue reading TV Viewing Summary W/E 09/02/97
Emap Elan is set to produce a male version of Elle which will be included as a supplement in the magazine this April. It will have a lifestyle content targeted at men aged 20-30 and it is believed that if successful it will be launched as a stand-alone title, probably called Elle Men.…Emap Elan is… Continue reading Emap Elan To Experiment With New Titles
Television subscriptions will become a more important source of income to the UK’s television industry than advertising by the year 2000. This is the conclusion of a report from Datamonitor.The report, IT in UK Media 1996-2001: Moving Towards Holistic Systems, estimates that subscription revenue, including pay-TV and video-on-demand, will increase in the television industry by… Continue reading Pay TV Set For Rapid Growth
The results of an outdoor advertising survey show that clothing advertisers like Nike and Burton doubled their annual poster spend last year to £8.4 million. It is reported, in MediaWeek, that the research, carried out by Poster Publicity and Media Monitoring Services, reveals that the clothing sector is now one of the top-ten outdoor advertising… Continue reading Star Bill-Board Spenders
