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
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
Barb has said that it is definitely looking at new ways of measuring television viewing, especially for out-of-home special events.Bill Meredith told Newsline that the wide issue of measuring viewing in the increasingly fragmented TV market was being discussed and Barb was “very interested” in monitoring out-of-home viewing for events such as football and boxing… Continue reading Barb Considering Additional Survey
The television sector saw large increases last week in anticipation of the more relaxed cross-media ownership rules which became law on Friday (see Friday’s New Media Ownership Rules Become Law).Grampian TV saw a big rise on Monday, leaping 22p to a record high of 292p, on the back of speculation that STV would make a… Continue reading Sharewatch W/E 1/11/96
The £35bn merger between BT and MCI at the weekend will place the UK telecommunications giant in close proximity to BSkyB, raising fears among UK watchdogs.The alliance will occur because MCI, the US telecoms operator, owns a 13.5% stake in Rupert Murdoch’s global media company News Corporation. Oftel however, the telecoms watchdog, only recently censured… Continue reading BT Merger Creates Murdoch Alliance
ITV will today announce its Winter schedule and a full report will appear on Newsline as soon as possible. It is also expected today that a buyer for United Provincial Newspapers, the regional press arm of United News & Media, will be announced though United were unable to confirm this.TeleWest will today announce interim results.… Continue reading The Week Ahead
