The new Wednesday evening Lottery draw on BBC1 was shown this week and unofficial overnights suggest it was watched by 10.8m viewers. The Saturday Lottery slot attracted 12.43 million on 25 January, though the first ever draw was watched by almost 22m.The latest Television data can be accessed by subscribers by clicking here.
Channel 5 may not have hit the air-waves yet, but it has just gone on-line. to find out what to expect of the new channel key in http://www.channel5.co.uk/home.html. A review is available on Newsline Web-Site Of The Week – Channel 5Another broadcaster who has decided to experiment with the web before taking to the air… Continue reading Web Round Up – W/E 14/2/97
Stockbroker Panmure Gordon has upgraded its profit expectations for next year for Midland Independent and Southern Newspapers. The broker tips both companies’ shares as ‘good’ investments.Panmure Gordon has raised its pre-tax forecast on MIN to £20.2 million, a rise of £4.2 million on the 1996 estimation. The broker predicts that Southern’s profits will increase by… Continue reading High Expectations For Midland Independent And Southern Newspapers
Three titles have released early ABC figures. Slimmer, published by the Turret Group, shows a significant decrease while DMG’s Perfect Home put in a strong performance. The full set of consumer ABCs for July-December will be released next Friday along with accompanying Newsline items. Title Jul 95 – Dec 95 Jul 96 – Dec 96… Continue reading Slimmer Magazine Suffers In Early ABCs
EMAP has announced the launch of a new sales house to represent UK Web sites to advertisers and their agencies. EMAP Internet Sales is part of the new specialist Internet publishing company EMAP Online which launched this week.The aim of EMAP Internet Sales is to provide media buyers with a single point of contact from… Continue reading EMAP Creates Web Sales House
The Radio Authority has put back the launch of Digital Audio Broadcasting until Spring 1998 in an effort to give the “maximum impact necessary for it to succeed.”The original launch date was supposed to be later this year but the Authority has adopted what it calls a “slow burn” approach whereby it will advertise the… Continue reading Radio Authority Revises Digital Timetable
News Corp, Rupert Murdoch’s global media company, has posted six month financial results which show that after tax profits have risen 17% to US$576 while revenues grew by 11% to US$5.6 billion.News International, the group’s UK newspaper division, performed well, with operating profits increasing 18% due to strong revenue and advertising growth. BSkyB, 40% owned… Continue reading News Corp Profits Grow
With the exception of Casualty the top ten this week is dominated by soaps. Emmerdale in particular, following extra publicity and a spicing up of storylines has improved its ratings and is now attracting an extra million or so viewers for each of its episodes. Sundays episode of Coronation Street has at last begun to… Continue reading TV Viewing Summary W/E 26/01/97
The ITC announced this morning that Channel 4 will pay £87.1m to the Independent Television Commission which will then distribute it to the ITV companies.The ITC has determined that for 1996 total terrestrial qualifying revenue was £2,256.7m with C4’s coming in at £490.3m. Because this exceeds 14% of the total revenue figure, 50% of the… Continue reading C4 Pays £87.1m To ITV Companies
Qualities August 1996-January 1997 ABC figures showed that the Independent lost 28,658 copies year on year, a drop of 9.82%, to 263,075. This is its lowest ever six-month ABC figure. Its Sunday title fared the worst among the whole sector with a drop in sales of 12.36% to 284,434 – again, this is the worst… Continue reading National Press Round-Up – January
