More than 71 million regional and local newspapers circulate in Britain each week; of these, 61 million are produced by just 20 regional press publishers. The remaining 15% are split between the 150 other regional press publishers, according to analysis carried out by the Newspaper Society.Following the acquisition of Thomson’s regional titles, Trinity International Holdings… Continue reading Top 20 Regional Publishers
IPC Magazines has launched a corporate site on the Internet “to provide business-to-business information for the publishing industry on the company and its titles.”IPCnet can be found at http://www.ipc.co.uk and includes: Descriptions of the three publishing groups, namely IPC Weeklies Group, SouthBank Publishing Group and Specialist Group. What’s New section with latest press releases issued… Continue reading IPC Launches Internet Site
The four Channel 5 bidders will discover the High Court’s decision this afternoon on whether the ITC’s decision to award the licence to Channel 5 Broadcasting was legal.The hearing, which began last week, was brought by one of the unsuccessful bidders, Virgin Television, who claimed that the ITC acted improperly towards Channel 5 Broadcasting, and… Continue reading Channel 5 Hearing Decision This Afternoon
Virgin TV has lost its High Court appeal to run the last terrestrial television channel. The court upheld the ITC’s decision to award the license for Channel 5 to C5B, and the complaints from the other failed bidders, UKTV and New Century TV, were also dismissed.The cost of the hearing is to be split between… Continue reading Virgin TV Lose High Court Challenge
Y&R have this week released a research report on children’s media habits. It was conducted amongst 40 children, evenly chosen by area and class, and completed by children filling in diaries of their day’s viewing.Amongst the most interesting parts of the report are: Kids have 80% attention to videos vs 68% for terrestrial TV. Kids… Continue reading Y&R Survey On Kid’s Media Habits
TBWA’s sexy Wonderbra poster campaign has taken top spot in the first annual results of the Ads That Make News survey. The campaign featuring supermodel Eva Herzigova was the most written about ad in the national press in 1995 generating 50 stories, according to the survey carried out by Propeller Marketing Communications.The Ads That Make… Continue reading Wonderbra Tops Ad Poll
Since first being mooted in May 1994, the launch of a financial newspaper aimed at the City of London is now expected to happen in March.London Financial News is the idea of the previous city editor of the Mail on Sunday, Clive Wolman. When first mooted, (Newsline 11/05/94) it was suggested the paper would be… Continue reading Weekly Financial Newspaper To Launch
Press rumours are continuing that TCI International, the world’s largest cable operator, is close to a deal with Sega to launch a computer games channel.The deal would be important for Flextech, the UK cable and satellite provider, which is controlled by US-based TCI. Flextech would take the rights to launch Sega games channels in countries… Continue reading Sega In Cable Deal
ITV is claiming that a special hour-long edition of The Bill helped it achieve its best Friday performance for over a year. The unofficial data released this week shows that ITV’s peaktime audience share on Friday January 19 was 55.0%, giving the channel a 35.1% lead over BBC1.The Bill attracted 14.4 million viewers and a… Continue reading ITV Achieves Record Figures
The IPA has published a book with winning papers from its Media Awards 1992-1995; it includes the Grand Prix winning paper from each year, as well as all the Category Winners from 1994 and 1995.Some of the Award-winning papers include:1995 Grand Prix: A new vision for a new media age – The Edelman Interview, by… Continue reading IPA Media Awards Book Published
