Total terrestrial TV revenue for December reached £163.55 million. Of this, ITV brought in £126.55m and Channel 4 reached £37m.Impacts followed last November’s pattern exactly with Housewives/Children showing the biggest drop year-on-year at -11.7%, while Housewives had the smallest fall at -4.4%. CPTs for December were about 10 percentage points less than for November across… Continue reading TV Round-Up – December
The deadline for applications to operate digital terrestrial television multiplexes is noon on Friday 31 January 1997.Once the ITC has received the applications, the Commission will announce the names of the applicants, and the licences for which they have bid by 4pm the same day. This information will be available on Newsline as soon as… Continue reading Deadline For Digital Multiplex Applications
The ITC has published its second report detailing television audience share figures. The Broadcasting Act 1996 prohibits any commercial licences having a share which exceeds 15% of the total TV audience. While most of the individual channels show very little change compared to the last set of figures for September 1996 *ITC Publishes TV Audience… Continue reading ITC Produces Second Audience Report
Kieran Kelly, formerly ad manager at The Sunday Express Magazine, has been taken on by OK!. Kelly will take up the post of agency sales manager at the title. While Stan Myerson the group ad director has been promoted to the board.Manchester-based, Broughton Jacques has come to an arrangement with TCS Media. Following the departure… Continue reading Industry Changes
The Broadcasting Standards Council has published its November complaints bulletin.A few cases involved in the report have particular interest. Channel 4’s, Cutting Edge programme, The Home, was found to be taking the programme beyond acceptable boundaries. The programme looked at the care given to elderly people in a nursing home. The BSC concluded that, some… Continue reading Complaints Bulletin
A new company called Digital 3 and 4 Ltd, jointly owned by ITV and C4, today submitted an application to the Independent Television Commission to run the second digital terrestrial television licence.The company has to satisfy that it will build the new digital transmission network, covering 85% of the country, within four years, and that… Continue reading ITV And C4 Join Forces For Digital Launch
Last night’s MRG Evening Meeting discussed the latest survey which attempted to provide accurate and trusted data for the cable television industry.The research being presented was the CATV II survey for the Cable Research Group which claimed to provide detailed profile data, accurately measured viewing, a database for intensive analysis and ultimately a common trading… Continue reading MRG Evening Meeting – CATV II Research Findings
The AGM of Capital Radio plc took place in London today.The chairman of Capital, Ian Irvine reported: “Our radio revenues continue to grow ahead of the radio market as a whole, and profits from the first quarter have grown in line with budget. For the year to September 1996 the radio industry took a record… Continue reading A Capital Year For Capital
Channel 5’s greatest test broadcast so far was carried out at the weekend. The test produced significantly less interference to existing channeling than had been expected.13,000 people living in London and the surrounding area reported that they suffered interference. The test was expected to lead to 175,000 calls from homes that had been missed.Channel 5… Continue reading Tuning Successes For Channel 5
The ITC agreed on 23 January to invite applications for the local delivery franchise for Fife. The licence area covers those areas of Fife not included in existing Glenrothes and Kirkcaldy broadband cable franchise. The area contains around 74,000 homes.The ITC has set percentages of revenue as the minimum price to be paid by any… Continue reading New Delivery Areas For Fife And Northumberland
