The BBC published its first annual statement of promises yesterday, laying what it believes is “the foundations of a stronger relationship with licence payers.”The “BBC Statement of Promises to Viewers and Listeners” spells out a series of specific promises covering the full range of the BBC’s output. Statements regarding taste and decency include observance of… Continue reading BBC Makes Promises To Audience
The IPA has published its third quarter Trends in Television report which shows that ITV’s share of viewing has declined this year from 36.5% in Q1 to 34.3% in Q3 while non-terrestrial viewing share has grown from 9.3% to 10.5% over the same period. This suggests that ITV is losing its audience to cable and… Continue reading Non-Terrestrial TV Growing At ITV’s Expense
The passing of more relaxed cross-media ownership rules on Friday *New Media Ownership Rules Become Law has meant that the ITV company possibly most likely to be taken over, Yorkshire-Tyne Tees TV, has reached a record 52-week high today of £13.15 (at 3pm).Granada is the most likely bidder, since it has increased its share in… Continue reading Takeover Talk Causes YTTV To Soar
The Independent Television Commission has published its first report on television audience share figures, which will now be issued on a quarterly basis.The Broadcasting Act 1996 introduces, with effect from November 1, new provisions which rule that no person or company may hold licences or have qualifying interests in television programme services whose share together… Continue reading ITC Publishes TV Audience Shares
Emap Metro, publisher of Empire and Premiere, is launching a new film magazine called Neon . The monthly title will have an introductory cost of £1 when it launches on Friday and will have a cover-price of £2.20 thereafter.Emap say that the title will recognise how film has become an “essential part of youth culture”… Continue reading Emap Launches New Film Mag
The men’s monthly magazine sector is now firmly established in the market with titles now reflecting various different target audiences, and most still showing good growth. Though one of the main problems faced by consumer magazines is fighting amongst themselves, it would appear that the men’s sector has now settled sufficiently to cope with this,… Continue reading Men’s Magazine Market Round-Up
The latest JNLR/MRBI Interim Report, which covers the six month period from April to September, shows that the Irish independent radio stations are continuing to increase their listenership.The survey shows that nationwide 54% of listeners tuned into the independent stations each weekday compared to 34% for RTE Radio 1 and 29% for 2FM. For the… Continue reading Independent Radio Stations Show Increased Listenership
Microsoft is believed to be in the process of planning an online television channel called OnStage which will broadcast over the Internet.Six channels will launch in America in December on Microsoft’s Internet service providing users with news, sports and entertainment programmes. The service is said to be as close to real television as current technology… Continue reading Microsoft To Launch Internet TV
Sarah Fisher has been appointed publisher of IPC’s SouthBank Group teenage titles, 19 and Mizz. She was previously assistant publisher of Woman and Home.The appointment is part of a publishing restructure within SouthBank announced today by Heather Love, SouthBank’s publishing director, with one publisher to head up each of her three market sectors.Publisher Andrew Taylor… Continue reading Southbank Publishing Restructure
Cable operator Telewest has today announced third quarter financial results which show that losses have doubled year-on-year from £29.4m to £59.1m. This is despite revenue increasing 127% to £73.1m.Telewest also said that its network was 61% complete and now had almost 700,000 residential customers, while churn amongst cable viewers declined from 46% to 39.5%. Commenting… Continue reading Losses Double For Telewest
