United News & Media this morning announced interim financial results which reveal profit before tax reached £151.9m, up 21.5%. Turnover also improved, increasing from £906m to just over £1 billion.In terms of United’s broadcasting interests strong performances by Anglia and Meridian helped lift the division’s profits by 75% and encouraging growth was also reported at… Continue reading United Sees Profits Rise 21.5%
Scottish Television today announced interim results for the six months ending 30 June 1996. A record profit before tax is confirmed, up 39% to £10.3 million with turnover up 15% to £52.2 million. Operating profit from continuing operations is up 22% to £8.8 million.Scottish Television says these figures result from a 7% improvement in advertising… Continue reading STV Announces Record Profit
John Beadell, chief executive of the Audit Bureau of Circulations, has left the organisation to become an independent consultant. No replacement has yet been found.He had worked at ABC for five years, during which time various developments were implemented including electronic auditing, Internet auditing, exhibition auditing and the simultaneous release of consumer magazine audits.…Mark Soden,… Continue reading ABC Chief Exec Leaves
The first weekend of the new autumn schedule has seen a lot of new shows appearing on the top thirty programmes list. The highest entry of the new batch of programmes is LWT’s London’s Burning, which was watched by 12.21 million people. The next best new programme was Heartbeat which achieved an audience of 12.14… Continue reading TV Viewing Summary – New Autumn Schedule A Loss With Viewers
Cinema admissions in July averaged 2.29m a week – a 5% year-on-year decrease. This is despite Mission Impossible topping the box office with one of the strongest opening weekend records to date (£4.2m) whilst also becoming the fourth highest grossing film of the year. High performing films for July last year included Judge Dredd and… Continue reading July Sees Drop In Cinema Admissions
Talks between Channel 5 and TeleWest which would have seen the cable operator retuning videos in its franchise areas have broken down after the two sides failed to agree terms.As reported on Newsline *Telewest Close To C5 Retune Deal a deal was almost finalised but it is now reported that disagreements over how much C5… Continue reading TeleWest Talks With C5 Break Down
IPC Magazines’ Woman’s Realm will go under the surgeon’s knife and get a new look for the September 17 issue.The 38-year-old woman’s weekly has, according to IPC, been given a fresher and brighter cover style plus a more feminine and elegant editorial. Other changes will include new typefaces, cleaner, less cluttered layouts and longer articles.… Continue reading Woman’s Realm Gets Facelift
According to a report in the Independent, Scottish Television will reveal the launch of a new satellite channel for Scotland when it announces interim results on Thursday.The Scottish channel, coined Sky Scotland, would be the result of a collaboration between STV and BSkyB. It is suggested that the service would broadcast two hours per day… Continue reading New Scottish Satellite Channel Rumoured
After announcing an increase in turnover of 55% to £49.36m and an increase in pre-tax profits of 9.6% to just over £5m, Adscene’s chairman declared that the group was looking to expand.Commenting on prospects, Harry Lambert said: “We expect the shake-up in the local newspaper industry to continue, which will create further opportunities for expansion.”… Continue reading Adscene In Mood For Expansion
