Radio group GWR has launched a £3.9m takeover bid for Wyvern FM, the Hereford-based station. The move coincides with the completion of GWR’s takeover of Classic FM.Due to the fact that GWR’s 102.4 Severn Sound FM overlaps with Wyvern’s audience, a public interest test will be carried out on the takeover by the Radio Authority.… Continue reading GWR To Buy Radio Wyvern
According to trade press reports VNU Business Publications and Emap Computing are planning to launch monthly IT magazines in early 1997. Emap is apparently relaunching Lan Magazine as Network World while VNU is working on an as yet unnamed project which would directly compete with the new Emap title.
According to agency estimates total TV revenue for November came in at £212.84m, an increase of 11.41% year on year. ITV revenue rose to £165.49m while C4 rose to £47.35m.Impacts were down by between 7%-8% across the board for November and CPTs correspondingly rose, with most categories experiencing an increase of around 20% year on… Continue reading TV Round-Up – November
Luke Johnson, chairman of PizzaExpress, has made a large investment in Tom Rubython’s Sunday Business newspaper and will become its chairman.Mr Johnson is understood to be taking a stake of around 25% in the paper which is currently owned almost wholly by a consortium of British business men. Although the paper has faced serious financial… Continue reading New Chairman For Sunday Business
The latest NRS figures for November show that the Times recorded the biggest year on year increase amongst the whole national daily newspaper market. 12-month figures reveal that the News International title has grown its readership by 16.92% to reach 1.942 million.Amongst the daily broadsheets the Guardian increased 5.63% to 1.312 million and the FT… Continue reading Newspaper NRS Figures – November
CLT UK Radio Sales has appointed Tim Bleakley as sales controller of Talk Radio. He joins from TSMS where he was account director.… Kate Lynch, head of research at Leo Burnett, is leaving the company’s London office in March to join the Leo Burnett operation in Chicago.CLT UK Radio Sales: 0171 436 6363Leo Burnett: 0171… Continue reading Appointment News
Following its decision to move sales in-house from Media Sales & Marketing *LNR Moves Sales In-House London News Radio has announced its new sales team.MD Nigel Reeve has appointed Neil Webster as head of national sales for LBC 1152AM and News Direct 97.3FM and Tony Robinson, Justin Richardson and Steve Ramsay as senior sales executives.… Continue reading New Sales Team For LNR
A report by Sheffield University has revealed that violent content occupies a relatively tiny percentage of total programming minutage.The independent report, funded by all main UK broadcasters and regulators, covered ten terrestrial and non-terrestrial channels and recorded 1.08% violent minutage out of across-the-board total TV output. This compares to 1.07% last year. The amount of… Continue reading Survey Shows Little Change In Amount of TV Violence
BSkyB had a good week due to developments in the digital TV area. On Monday it was reported that the company was pushing ahead with its set-top box plans and its ratecard was approved by the OFT. Both of these developments lifted shares out of the doldrums, increasing 13 on Monday to 489p and another… Continue reading Sharewatch W/E 20/12/96
ABC announced this afternoon that it will now be accepting subscription-sale copies of the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph as “full price” sales.The row between ABC and the Telegraph first occurred on December 13 when the paper’s latest ABC figures were excluded because some had been sold on a subscription basis. Writs were issued by… Continue reading ABC And Telegraph Reach Agreement
