The Independent Television Commission has published a draft Code of Conduct on Electronic Programme Guides (EPGs) for public consultation.EPGs are the electronic menus which viewers will increasingly be calling up on their TV screens to select the television programmes they wish to watch. Of particular concern to the ITC is that the assembly and packaging… Continue reading ITC Launches Consultation On Programme Guides
MediaTel, the UK’s biggest media database, now almost entirely accessible via the Internet, launches its new Press Database service and a redesigned look to its complete web product this afternoon.The new Press Database offers users a number of improved features which allows access to information on press circulation and readership data quickly and easily. The… Continue reading MediaTel Launches New Database
Qualities The Times and Daily Telegraph were once again way ahead of the opposition amongst the daily quality titles. The News International title experienced a year-on-year sales increase in December of 14.78% to 740,709 copies while the Daily Telegraph increased its circulation by 9.2% to 1.132 million. The Guardian remained stable, registering only a slight… Continue reading National Press Round-Up – December
Future Publishing has just released its first film related title, Total Film Magazine. Total Film went on sale at a special introductory price of £1. Published monthly, the normal price will be £2.50.Matt Bielby, the Editor, sets the scene for the title in his opening note, “You’re holding up a magazine that’s right up your… Continue reading First Issue Review: Total Film Magazine
Most sectors had a quiet week though agencies AMV.BBDO and CIA both performed well, with AMV rising from 651p at the start of the week to 678.5p by Friday as a result of it winning Campaign‘s Agency of the Year Award. CIA was buoyed by a mention in Media Week‘s Agency of the Year list… Continue reading Sharewatch – W/E 10/1/97
The Guardiannewspaper was due to re-launch its media section today. This has been postponed until next Monday. The new media section will be an expanded stand alone supplement. The company say that today is too near to Christmas for a new launch.Film and TV Week, IPC’s new listings’ magazine, launches tomorrow. The title is to… Continue reading The Week Ahead
Raymond Snoddy reports in today’s Financial Times that Imedia, an American company, is offering to treble the number of channels available via British digital terrestrial television.Originally, land-based digital TV was only expected to broadcast 30 channels. There were worries that it would be unable to compete with satellite and cable services offering over 200 channels.… Continue reading Digital TV Channels Set To Multiply
A report by Datamonitor, The Provision of Consumer Online and Internet Services across Europe, predicts that shopping will overtake games as the key online revenue-generator by 1999, but that neither will come near to rivalling subscription revenues.Principal online revenue markets 1997-2001 ($m) Western Europe Year Subscription Shopping Games Total 1997 1,298 75 135 1,508 1998… Continue reading Report Predicts Hefty Increases In Online Shopping Revenues
At the end of this month, Channel Four will reluctantly hand over a cheque for £88 million to the ITV companies. The payments are due under Channel 4’s funding formula. Channel 4 Television has to pay 50% of any excess it earns from advertising revenues over and above 14% of total qualifying revenue.The funding agreement… Continue reading ITV To Receive £88 Million From Channel 4
In a move to encourage new readers The Express newspaper is to cut the price of its Saturday edition to 20p for the second week in a row. The Express estimates that an extra 300,000 copies were sold last Saturday as a result of the price cut.The Daily Mail also reduced the price of its… Continue reading Express Cuts Prices
