The Department of National Heritage has published a Government paper, ‘Broadcast Sports Rights: Informing the Debate’, which aims to ‘help inform the public and Parliamentary debate’ on the question of TV coverage of sports events.Virginia Bottomley, National Heritage Secretary, said: “There is a widespread view that certain events are more than mere sporting occasions and… Continue reading Government Opens Debate On TV Sport
Yesterday saw the Sunday Express launching a revamped version of its Classic supplement. Expresso, which keeps the same size and format as its predecessor, is the third reincarnation for the Sunday Express supplement. Section III launched in September 1993; this became Classic a year later in September 1994 to be followed yesterday by the relaunch… Continue reading Sunday Express Expresso Replaces Classic
Attic Futura’s teenage magazine Sugar, which launched in October of 1994 has released its second ABC; at 318,053 for July – December 1995 this is an increase of over 55,000 copies on its first ABC, up 21.2%. What Personal Computer has also released its July-December ABC today, up 18.3% on last year’s figure. Jl-Dec’94 Jl-Dec’95… Continue reading Latest ABCs – Sugar Up 21% On Last Period
The Evening Standard has announced two promotions: Zoe Bartlett to the position of Ad Manager and Christine O’Doherty to Agency Sales Controller.These moves result from the promotion of Gavin Baylis to General Manager of a new division of Associated Newspapers Ltd.
The London-based Middle East Broadcasting Centre believes it will be able to win an additional 10 million viewers with its new transmission via terrestrial transponders.This means that the satellite station’s reception in the Middle East will now be clearer and viewers will not need a satellite dish or any other reception device.Middle East Broadcasting Centre:… Continue reading MBC Reaches 10 Million New Viewers
Speculation continues to mount over the possible takeover of media group Pearson. The latest candidate rumoured to be interested in Pearson, which owns the FT, Penguin books and Thames Television, is Viacom.With revenues of more than $11bn, Viacom is now the world’s second largest media group after Time Warner. Analysts believe that the similarities between… Continue reading Media Takeover Rumours
The Sun and The Daily Mirror are to increase the price of their Saturday editions by 2p, making The Sun 27p and The Daily Mirror 30p. This cover price increase comes at a time when raw material costs have at last slowed down, after increases of around 70% in the past 18 months.The price of… Continue reading Sun And Mirror Announce Price Rises
A BMRB survey has shown overwhelming support for the BBC’s belief that sports coverage should stay on terrestrial TV.The survey of 1,288 people aged 16 and over shows that nine in ten believe that major sporting events are part of the country’s heritage and should be available to the widest possible audience – without the… Continue reading Poll Shows Support For Terrestrial Sport
RevenueDecember was a poor month for ITV in terms of revenue, with ITV’s actual figure down on last year by 3.7%; this decrease, despite Channel 4’s increase of 11.3% year on year was enough to bring combined ITV/C4 revenue down by 0.6%. The total figure was £155.94m. Of this C4’s £36.72m represents 24%.Amongst the individual… Continue reading Television Round-Up – December
