According to Advertising Association forecasts leaked to Media Week, radio is set to remain the fastest growing advertising medium in 1997 with growth set for 13.4% year-on-year. It is set to bring in £0.36 billion this year compared with £0.31 billion last year.Other figures suggest that the business press sector is set to hit the… Continue reading Radio Set For 13% Growth In 1997
The latest round of NRS figures, for the period July to December 1996, show that Your Garden magazine has achieved the greatest rise in readership figures, with a 55% change and an increase of 132,000 readers. The gardening sector is currently experiencing a readership boom. Amateur Gardening also saw a 15.6% rise, boosting its readership… Continue reading NRS Round-Up July-December 1996
Paramount Channel , which launched in 1995, is changing its name to The Paramount Comedy Channel from 3 February.The channel will feature only comedy programmes. 80% of the scheduled programmes are new to the channel; two thirds of these shows are Paramount produced.Paramount has produced a series of shows, for the weekday 11pm slot, featuring… Continue reading All Change At Paramount
HTV has launched its own Teletext Ancillary Service; viewers in the West of England will now be able to access a range of information on HTV and its programmes. HTV Teletext is found on pages 600-699. Viewers in Wales will receive individual regional pages.The pages will feature details of forthcoming HTV programming, studio-audience ticket availability… Continue reading HTV Now Appearing On Teletext
Cable company Telewest today issued operating statistics which show that cable penetration in its franchise area has increased by 0.7% points to 22.6% year on year. Churn was down slightly at 33.4% and cable TV customers increased year on year by 31.5% to 528,142.Telewest’s figures are indicative of most cable companies at present. Nynex for… Continue reading Telewest Penetration Shows Slight Increase
Submissions from major broadcasters, sports organisations and consumer and viewer groups have been received by the Independent Television Commission in response to its consultation on listed sports events.The ITC is required to draw up a Code on Sports and Other Listed Events as part of the Broadcasting Act 1996 to protect certain sporting events for… Continue reading ITC Receives Responses On Listed Events
According to a report in today’s Guardian the Labour party is planning a radical overhaul of the television regulatory system which will see the ITC merged with Oftel.The BBC, which currently regulates itself, would also lose most of its regulatory powers to the Independent Television Commission. At the moment the ITC monitors only commercial TV… Continue reading New TV Regulator Under Labour
Total terrestrial TV revenue for December reached £163.55 million. Of this, ITV brought in £126.55m and Channel 4 reached £37m. Among the ITV companies there was very little change year-on-year. Carlton experienced the biggest change with an increase of 0.9% point change while YTTV had the biggest drop at 0.65% points.
The Radio Authority has vetoed the proposed acquisition of GWR’s Leicester Sound by DMG Radio, a subsidiary of Daily Mail and General Trust plc *RA Carries Out Public Interest Tests. If the sale were to proceed Leicester Sound would lose its licence. The Radio Authority ruled that in these circumstances Leicester Sound would be operating… Continue reading Daily Mail Fails In Its Bid To Take To The Air Waves
1996 was the year in which struggling newspapers continued to lose sales and readership and successful titles went from strength to strength. It also saw the launch of two national newspapers, the Sunday Business and the Planet On Sunday.Despite revamps, promotions, price cuts and new sections being employed by most titles, circulation trends remained similar… Continue reading National Press Round-Up 1996
