The sale of the BBC’s domestic and foreign transmission service reached the final stage yesterday when four UK and US groups handed in their final bids. All offers for this, the BBC’s first privatisation, are believed to exceed £200 million.The four bidders are International CableTel, a consortium led by Securicor, Mercury Asset Management and Castletower… Continue reading BBC Sell Off Attracts Final Bids
The Sun and the Daily Mirror revealed today the Christmas television schedules, as the battle between the terrestrial channels continues.BBC1 starts the fight on Christmas Eve premiering the film Super Mario Brothers while for the same time ITV can only come up with Protocol, and later on in the evening Top Gun both films shown… Continue reading Christmas Schedules For 1996
Admissions Cinema admissions have been varied so far this year, with January and February starting 1996 off well by each recording figures of just over 12 million. The best month of the year so far however was August which saw an overall increase of 23.87% on the same month last year with a figure of… Continue reading Cinema Round-Up – January To October
Unofficial overnight figures for last night’s screening of ITV’s detective drama Inspector Morse show that it achieved a peak audience of 14.29 million viewers, with an average audience of 13.59 million between 8pm and 10pm.BBC1 had How Do They Do That?, Points Of View, Nine O’Clock News, Budget Response and X-Files up against Morse and… Continue reading Inspector Morse Overnights
Channel 4 is set to open up sponsorship opportunities for its most popular programmes. It will mean that programmes such as Brookside, Friends and Frasier will able to carry a sponsor for the first time. Up until now few programmes have been available for sponsorship on the channel, the Film on Four season being the… Continue reading Channel 4 Opens Up Sponsorship Avenues
Roger Gane has resigned as Executive Director at RAJAR Ltd. He will leave his post early next year to become International Media Research Director for the IPSOS Group, the parent company of RSL, who hold the RAJAR research contract. A successor is currently being sought.Of his move, Roger told MediaTel today: “I have very much… Continue reading Roger Gane Leaves RAJAR
The Independent Television Commission has today announced that the licence fees payable by the ITV franchise holders will remain unchanged for the first quarter of 1997.This will disappoint many in the industry, especially YTTV, who have campaigned for a change in the way licence fees are calculated. Particularly irritating to some is the fact that… Continue reading ITV Licence Fees Remain Unchanged
The latest NRS figures released yesterday reveal that amongst the daily broadsheets the Times and FT were the only titles to register increased readerships. 12-month figures show that the Times‘s readership has gone up by over 12% year on year while the FT‘s has grown by over 8%. It was a similar picture in the… Continue reading Newspaper NRS Figures – October
Channel 4 has announced its Christmas schedule, which it says provides its traditional mix of the untraditional for a fortnight of alternative festive viewing. Following the trend of Christmas pasts, Channel 4 will again be showing an alternative to the Queen’s Speech. Rory Bremner will be impersonating Princess Diana in what the station says will… Continue reading Channel 4 Unveils Festive Crackers
Euromoney, the magazine publisher and conference organiser, has announced record interim profits for the year to September 30th 1996.Euromoney achieved pre tax profits of £25.5 million, which compares to £18.2 million for the same time last year. Cost cutting and improved cash margins are said to have contributed to the improved profits.Euromoney Publications: 0171 779… Continue reading Euromoney Announce Interim Profits
