According to the latest July – December figures by fare the best performance came from Internet magazine with a year on year increase of 22.7%. Amongst other titles in the sector reporting only Computer Buyer, Computer Shopper, PC Gamer and PC Pro show increases.The worst performances came from Amiga Format and CD Rom Today, both… Continue reading Computer Magazines July – December 1996 ABC Figures
The gardening sector ABCs released today showed that the majority of gardening titles have had an increase in circulation, with only two titles having fallen. The Garden has had the biggest percentage change of 10.42% while BBC Gardeners World has had the biggest actual change having 293,041 copies to 267,165 copies for the same period… Continue reading July-December 1996 ABC Figures: Gardening, Photography &
Motoring Sectors
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
Media Vantage, the Leeds-based agency that launched last year, has restructured in order to strengthen its trading base.Mark Midmore has been promoted to deputy media director; he will combine this new role with his previous position as head of broadcast. Michele Ellaby will oversee all non-broadcast business and share responsibility for business development with Mandy… Continue reading Media Vantage Restructures
Features on Newsline this week will include, a round-up of the national press January ABCs and a television round-up for 1996. The July to December consumer magazine ABCs are released on Friday and will be accompanied by Newsline items.The Daily Mail and General Trust’s AGM is being held on Wednesday at the Kensington Close Hotel… Continue reading The Week Ahead
Overall in 1996 ITV revenue was up 4.9% year on year from £1.578bn to £1.656bn while C4 did better with a growth of 10% to nearly £489m. This puts the revenue ratio for 1996 between ITV and C4 at 77:23.Total combined revenue for the year came in at £2.145bn, which is a year on year… Continue reading TV Round-Up – 1996
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
