IPC Magazines has closed Superclassics, the upmarket quarterly devoted to classic cars. The closure of the magazine, which lasted just four issues, is blamed on rising paper costs.Stonehart Publishing has sold men’s health magazine XL to Affinity, the publisher of over-50s magazine Goldlife. The last issue published by Stonehart comes out this week. The title’s… Continue reading Magazine Changes: Superclassics, XL And New Statesman
According to unofficial ‘live’ overnight data ITV is claiming that it has achieved its highest Tuesday night performance so far this year.Emmerdale (11.5m viewers), an hour-long special edition of The Bill (12.6m) and the return of Peak Practice (12.1m) all achieved over 50% of the available audience in their slots.Overall, ITV gained 45.3% of the… Continue reading ITV Claims Highest Tuesday Viewing This Year
The cable industry has come together to launch an advertising campaign worth £12 million. The campaign, which begins on 25 March, is designed to increase cable penetration rates which remain stuck at 20%. It will run on terrestrial television and other media for a year.The campaign is joint-funded by major cable operators including Cabletel, TeleWest,… Continue reading Cable Operators Fund £12 Million Ad Campaign
The effects of the price war and newsprint prices have had their toll on the Telegraph’s results; the group’s pre-tax profit was £35.5 million, compared with £45 million in 1994.Newsprint prices rose 15% at the beginning of 1995, followed by a further 30% increase in the middle of the year. In the last quarter of… Continue reading Telegraph Hit By Price War And Newsprint Prices
It has now been confirmed that Greenwich will host the Millennium exhibition in the year 2000.Greenwich beat Birmingham in the competition to host the celebration because it offers the greatest potential to meet the Millennium Commission’s aspirations. It will also regenerate an important part of south London and will allow a more exciting presentation of… Continue reading Greenwich Is Chosen As Millennium Site
In its February Complaints Bulletin the Broadcasting Standards Council upheld in part two complaints about an item on Chris Evans’s BBC Radio 1 Breakfast Show. One listener was offended by an item about a sex aid and erections, the second by a joke about oral sex. The BBC argued that the innuendo would only have… Continue reading Chris Evans Reprimanded
At yesterday’s Financial Times New Media and Broadcasting Conference, a leading European satellite broadcaster predicted a dramatic expansion in the number of television channels to be available in the next few years.Koos Bekker, chief executive of NetHold said that by the year 2000 there could be as many as 4,500 television channels available because of… Continue reading 4,500 Satellite Channels Predicted By 2000
BT has announced plans to launch its own mass market, dial-up Internet service at the end of March. The service, called BT Internet, will be aimed at residential and small business customers, and will compete with existing providers such as Demon Internet and Unipalm Pipex.There will be a one-off charge of £20, then a flat… Continue reading BT To Launch Own “Mass Market” Internet Service
Future Publishing will launch a new glossy magazine aimed at creative PC users. Computer Arts, launching on 6th June, will be bi-monthly for the first 3 months and will then go monthly. An initial print-run of approximately 60,000 is planned and the title will cost £5: not surprisingly the target market consists mainly of AB1’s,… Continue reading New PC Designer Magazine
The Radio Authority has announced that thirteen stations had submitted applications to run the Yorkshire regional radio licence by today’s closing date. As reported on Newsline (01/02/96) the licence is the second largest local radio licence outside London and will reach around 3 million adults.The applicants are: Arrow Broadcasting (Arrow FM, Nick Boakes, 0171 253… Continue reading Thirteen Stations To Compete For Yorkshire Radio Licence
