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
The latest Register Meal figures show that the highest spending brand for November was Currys, with its £4.466m national press ad campaign; the second highest was Boots, spending £3.318m on tv advertising.Both Boots and Woolworths (second with a £3.228m campaign) were not in the top ten brands for last month; Boots were also not in… Continue reading Top Ten Brands – November
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
Media Business Group has announced its first results since flotation last September: turnover was up 11 per cent from £44.1m to £49m and the interim pre-tax profit was 30 per cent higher at £412,000.The group has won substantial new business in the last 12 months as well as increased spending from existing clients. In the… Continue reading Media Business Success
A new Sunday newspaper devoted entirely to business is to be launched by the former editor of Business Age, Tom Rubython. The exact launch date of Sunday Business is being kept confidential, although press rumours indicate that it will be some time in March.A spokesman for Sunday Business told MediaTel that the paper will have… Continue reading New Business Paper To Launch
TeleWest, the UK’s largest cable communications operator, has announced its fourth quarter operating statistics.The figures show that: cable TV subscribers are up 12%, with subscribers now totalling 401,469; cable TV churn in the year was reduced by 8.1% from 52.6% in 1994 to 44.5% in 1995. 2 million homes have now been passed, representing over… Continue reading Telewest TV Subscribers Reach 400,000
