The Sainsbury’s owned retailer Homebase is launching a new glossy lifestyle magazine. Hitting the newsstands in March, Homebase Living will be produced by contract publishers Redwood and have an initial print run of 750,000.The magazine will publish every four months, have 84 pages and costs £1 with a full page advert costing £9600. Richard Power… Continue reading Homebase Launch New Glossy Magazine
National Heritage Secretary Virginia Bottomley has announced the appointments of David Boulton, Strachan Heppel CB and Susan Lloyd to the Broadcasting Complaints Commission. Their appointments will be for three years and they will become members of the new Broadcasting Standards Commission when the merger of the BCC and the Broadcasting Standards Council takes place on… Continue reading Appointment Briefs
The Mail On Sunday has put up its cover-price by 10p to 85p. The paper’s latest ABC, for October, showed that the title had a circulation of 2.168m, an increase of 6.62% year on year.Associated Newspapers: 0171 938 6000
Border Television has announced its financial results for the six months to October 31st 1996. Pre tax profits rose to £1.52m in 1996 from £1.1m in 1995 (this is a rise of 37%). Net profits rose to £0.95m from £0.69m in 1995.The good results have been attributed to the growth of television advertising revenues (4%)… Continue reading Border Interim Results
CIA Medianetwork today told Newsline that it expects to announce a detailed settlement plan tomorrow in a bid to settle its dispute with Laser once and for all.A source said that last week’s trade press reports that a settlement had been reached to pay Laser the disputed monies for 1995 and 1996 could not be… Continue reading CIA Close To Announcing Settlement
Agency estimates for October show that total revenue for Channel 4 and ITV reached £224.16m. ITV revenue increased to £175.16m whilst Channel 4 pulled in £49m.Impacts were once again down across all categories, with Housewives/Children experiencing the largest drop with 10.1% year on year. CPTs all showed large increases in October: as would be expected,… Continue reading TV Round-Up – October
EMAP has settled its long-running boardroom dispute following the removal of two of its directors, Joe Cooke and Ken Simmonds, who were voted off the board by a majority of three to one. The decision was taken by Chairman Sir John Hoskyns and chief executive Robin Miller following a breakdown of relations between the board… Continue reading EMAP Vote To Remove Directors
Forme Communications will be launching an Internet magazine called Internet Age in January. The new title, which will cover business applications of the Internet, is aimed primarily at managers and directors who need the information for their business. The full colour title will be monthly, cost £2.50, and have 32 pages.The title also has a… Continue reading New Internet Mag Set For Launch
Gruner & Jahr are planning to launch a new home-interest that will compete directly with Ideal Home and House Beautiful, titled Prima Home. Prima Home will be a perfect bound glossy, have an initial print run of around 250,000 and have 140 to 150 pages with 40 said to be given over to advertising.The first… Continue reading G & J To Launch New Home Interest Title
Scottish Radio Holdings this morning announced final financial figures which show that pre-tax profits have risen 37% to £7 million, while turnover has increased 66% to £28m. SRH’s local newspapers contributed £1.5m to the group’s profits. Like for like ad revenue in the first two months of the new financial year also increased, rising 6%… Continue reading Scot Radio Profits Up 37%
