Qualities The Times continued to increase sales in November, recording a growth of 16.08% year on year to 783,638. This growth far outstripped that of other titles in the sector: the Financial Times increased by 1.35% to 297,140 while the Guardian grew by 0.41% to 396,434. The Independent‘s sales however continued to fall, dropping by… Continue reading National Press Round-Up – November
The release last week of Disney’s live action version of 101 Dalmatians and sci-fi movie Star Trek: First Contact has helped make this December’s first weekend takings the best ever.The top three box office films for December 13th to 15th all took a combined total of over £5 million, with 101 Dalmatians taking £2.36 million,… Continue reading 101 Dalmatians Knocks Spots Off The Rest
Cable Operator Telewest is rumoured to be buying a stake in youth cable channel Rapture.At present the channel’s only major backer is United News & Media and it is thought that Telewest’s offer of financial backing would lead to the channel being carried on one of its cable franchises.
United News & Media had a fairly bad week on the stock market last week. At the start of the week the company’s share price stood at 663.5p before falling to 646p on Friday. Rivals Southnews had a slightly better week increasing from 446.5p on Monday to 450p on Friday.BSkyB didn’t fair too well this… Continue reading Sharewatch W/E 13/12/96
J Walter Thompson has published details of a survey it had commissioned by Beck Consultancy into national daily newspapers. The survey was carried out in the London and South East area between Tuesday September 24th and Saturday September 28th and some of its findings were: The placing of advertisements in broadsheets make no difference as… Continue reading Right Sided Ads No Better Than Left
The national newspaper ABCs for November show that the Times is the most improved title on the market. The News International title showed a 16.08% increase in year-on-year to 783,638 copies. The Daily Mail has also continued to improve its 6-monthly ABC figure, up 13.28% to 2,083,309 copies.In was a similar picture in the Sunday… Continue reading National Newspaper November ABCs
The ITC has announced that Telewest Communications is the only applicant for the local cable franchise for the Lothian area.… the ITC has also announced that there are four applicants for the cable franchise for the Milton Keynes area. They are: BT New Towns Cable TV CableTel Bedfordshire Ltd Cable Television Ltd Metro Communications (MK)… Continue reading ITC Cable News
BSkyB plans to bring in pay per view movies have been hit by the refusal of a further two Hollywood studies to allow the satellite station exclusive access to their film catalogue. Disney and MCA have followed Warner Brothers similar move of only offering pay-per-view rights to broadcasters on a non-exclusive basis.Last month cable companies… Continue reading Disney & MCA Refuse BSkyB PPV Rights
Duncan Lewis has left his position as head of Granada’s media division. Granada said that Mr Lewis, who had only just joined the company, left after he and the company “recognised an incompatibility of approaches,” and he had agreed to “part on an amicable basis.”Steve Morrison, chief operating officer of the media division, has been… Continue reading Granada Man Resigns
BT and Microsoft have announced that Digital Equipment Corporation will be their first strategic partner for a new range of corporate intranet services (private Internets).Intranet services will be marketed by BT in the UK and it is intended to make them available globally using Digital’s world-wide services organisation. Digital will provide BT corporate customers with… Continue reading BT And Microsoft Find Intranet Partner
