Yorkshire-Tyne Tees Television was the major casualty last week, when financial results showed a disappointing performance by sales house Laser *YTTV Hits £13.3m Profit. YTTV’s declining ad revenue sent shares sliding from 1237.5p at the start of the week to 1172.5p by Friday. Coinciding with this, Granada shares fell by 15p to 851p on the… Continue reading Sharewatch W/E 6/9/96
National Readership Surveys has today launched its own website in the Media Village. The site, designed by MediaTel, contains background information about the NRS, its methodology, the nature of its data, and subscription details.NRS is also considering the future potential of the site as an additional means of distributing its monthly bulletins to subscribers and… Continue reading NRS Launches Website
Two major magazine launches take place this week, with IPC’s ‘lads’ title Eat Soup *IPC Aims To Take A Bite Out Of Men’s Market launching on Wednesday and Emap Elan’s young women’s title Minx *Minx – Preview Issue Review hitting the news-stands on Thursday. Full reviews will appear on Newsline this week.Financial results this week… Continue reading The Week Ahead
Following the creation of a central IPC circulation department, Sean Singleton has been appointed Specialist Group circulation manager whilst Alun Williams is appointed SouthBank Group circulation manager.Singleton was previously account manager for the Weeklies Group and Williams had been circulation manager for the combined Weeklies and SouthBank department since October 1995. Both of these appointments… Continue reading Appointments At IPC Magazines
Jeff Brownley, director of group corporate affairs at Yorkshire-Tyne Tees Television, this morning played down the row that is threatening relations between Yorkshire and its sales house Laser.As reported on *YTTV Hits £13.3m Profit, chairman Ward Thomas criticised Laser’s performance when announcing YTTV’s interim results, saying that ad revenue had been disappointing and pressure would… Continue reading YTTV Plays Down Laser Row
A packed MRG Evening Meeting this week heard from Simon Broadbent about STAS research and remained unconvinced. The research, based on the models and ideas of John Philip Jones, attempted to examine how effective TV advertising was in influencing consumers buying habits. A formula is used which gives a score for how likely it is… Continue reading MRG Evening Meeting: Thorny Issue Of Effective Frequency
Dennis Publishing will launch two new men’s magazines called Stuff and Escape by the end of the year.As reported on Dennis Publishing Attracted By Men’s Market, Dennis has been planning the launches for some time and it has now been confirmed that Escape will launch on 10th October as the “electronic magazine for men”. The… Continue reading Dennis Magazine Details Emerge
There is speculation that the BBC and BSkyB are about to announce details of a jointly commissioned programme. The two broadcasters are believed to have given the go ahead for a newly formed independent company to produce a 90-minute pilot for a new adventure drama series. Said to be an 18th century costume drama and… Continue reading BBC And BSkyB Work Together For New Drama Series
Punch magazine has been relaunched with its first issue since April 1992. Looking a lot like a cross between a women’s glossy magazine and the American magazine New Yorker on the outside and resembling something less interesting on the inside. There are a hundred pages of which 29 1/4 pages are given over to advertising.… Continue reading Punch Relaunch Issue Review
Delegates were invited to wander around the conference room to take part in table debates each lasting a maximum of twenty minutes. Here are a couple of the best.That Number Again … ! presented by Mike Bersin of EMAP Radio Group.This discussion was about how to improve the quality of commercial breaks. Mike went through… Continue reading Radio Convention – Table Talk
