United News & Media has increased its 19.9% stake in HTV to just under 30% in a move which will increase United’s share of total UK viewing to 5.5% and of ITV viewing to 18%.United paid £36.7m for the 8.7m HTV shares and the deal is seen by many as a defensive move to block… Continue reading United Raises Stake In HTV
A restructuring of staff at the Publishing Consultancy, following the departure of Stacey Paul, has seen promotions for Joy Rosen and Jane Lenny who have become advertising managers on TV Quick and Take A Break. Louise Edwards and Louise Lawrence, sale directors on Take A Break and TV Quick, have had the jobs expanded to… Continue reading Appointment News
Last night the Independent Television Commission named its new chairman for the next five years. Businessman Sir Robin Biggam will take over from Sir George Russell who retires next month.Sir Robin, aged 58, is already Chairman of the Fairey Group, and has served as a non-executive director of British Aerospace, British Energy and Redland. One… Continue reading ITC Names New Chairman
Cable and satellite TV channels need to convince non-subscribers that they offer a quality “must-have” alternative to terrestrial viewing if they are to register substantial growth rates.This is one of the findings of CIA MediaLab’s latest Sensor survey which asked non-subscribers their reasons for not signing up. Almost half (45%) state that they are happy… Continue reading Cable And Satellite ‘Must Improve Viewing’
Takeover speculation again caused fluctuations in the TV market last week though for once the action materialised, with Carlton taking over Westcountry and United News and Media increasing is stake in HTV to just short of 30% late on Friday.Carlton’s price rose 4.5 to 513p last Monday on news of its acquisition while United, whom… Continue reading Sharewatch – W/E 29/11/96
Scottish Radio announces its full year results on Tuesday, while Border announces interim results. Carlton Communication publishes its full year profits on Wednesday.A new magazine-styled newspaper called The Latest launches on Wednesday. There will be TV and Web round ups appearing on Newsline later in the week. A review of Carlton’s new website will also… Continue reading The Week Ahead
Bristol United Press, the regional newspaper group, has reported a half year drop in profits from £4.49 million to £4.24 million, a fall of 5.6%. Revenue increased slightly from £30.4m to £31.1m.The drop in profits was mostly due to a rise in newsprint costs which are believed to have peaked during the period though ad… Continue reading Bristol United Press Sees Profit Drop
Future Publishing have closed Rugby Magazine just four months after it had received a relaunch. The closure is being attributed to the high number of Rugby related magazines that are currently on the market and the fact that sales did not increase substantially enough.… launching just in time to pick up Rugby Magazine’s readers, Inside… Continue reading Future Cease Publication Of Rugby Magazine
Following the departure of Jim Park as advertisement sales director at Caledonian Publishing, Donald Emslie, currently commercial director at STV will temporarily assume the role, in addition to his current TV responsibility. Neither Caledonian or STV were able to comment as to whether any permanent replacement would have such a wide ranging portfolio.…The BBC’s commercial… Continue reading Appointment Briefs
The Radio Authority has announced that it is considering allowing a fourth national commercial radio station to broadcast in the UK.The move has come about after the Department of National Heritage said that a defunct long wave frequency previously assigned to the BBC for use in Scotland would be given back to the Authority to… Continue reading Fourth National Radio Station Planned
