Terrestrial football, in the guise of the Coca Cola quarter final match between Arsenal and Newcastle, shown live on ITV on 10th January, brought sport into the top 30 programmes for only the first time since the Wimbledon Men’s Final in July 95. The last completely domestic game shown live on terrestrial TV, which found… Continue reading Terrestrial Football Scores Well Amongst Top Programmes
The Independent’s price rise, up to 40p as from yesterday, puts it in line with the Daily Telegraph, also now at 40p. News International’s Times, however, is still at the cheaper price of 30p. The Guardian, unscathed by the price war, is still the most expensive, at 45p. The price war has increased the quality… Continue reading Independent Latest To Up Price
L!ve TV has bravely entered the cut-throat arena of securing football coverage for cable viewers. The bid is rumoured to be £10,000 per year for 20 live games and the target of L!ve TV’s interest is none other than…the Pontins League.The league, made up of the reserve teams of northern Premiership and Football League clubs,… Continue reading L!ve TV Bid For Football Coverage
Granada’s takeover of Forte was confirmed today, with over 60% of Forte’s share capital accepting Granada’s offer. However, counting of acceptances was not complete by 2.30pm, so the final level of acceptances is likely to be higher.Gerry Robinson, Granada’s Chief Executive, said, “We are naturally delighted with the outcome. Sir Rocco and his colleagues put… Continue reading Granada Wins Takeover Battle
Radio Times’ sales are up year on year for the first time in three years, BBC Magazines announced today. The ABC figure for Jul-Dec 1995 is 1,464,392, up 450 copies a week against the same period in 1994 and 2% up period on period.Publishing Director Rupert Miles said: “Despite a particularly challenging set of problems… Continue reading Radio Times ABC Up For First Time In Three Years
Pan-European broadcaster NBC Super Channel has released its 1995 advertising sales figures. They are up 39% for the fourth quarter and up 40% for the year as a whole. Over a third of the channel’s sales gains came from advertisers new to the channel.First-time advertisers include Chrysler, Philips, Microsoft, Toyota, Saab and Nissan. New campaigns… Continue reading Advertising Success At NBC Super Channel
The latest batch of July-December ABCs are the regional Auto Traders: ABC Totals Jl-Dec’95 Auto Trader Yorkshire 41,131 Auto Trader Scottish 30,917 Auto Trader North West 55,766 Auto Trader Thames Valley 40,212 Auto Trader South West 22,963 Auto Trader Midland 55,692 Auto Trader North London 28,330 Auto Trader North East 21,740 Auto Trader Anglia 13,098… Continue reading July-December ABCs Released
Age restraints could be imposed on teenage magazines, it is reported, if the wishes of a Tory MP are taken into account. Peter Luff, the Tory MP for Worcester, is to introduce a Bill to enforce new curbs on teenage magazines.The Bill has come about following the recent furore surrounding advice given in an agony… Continue reading MP Calls For Magazine Curbs
In court this morning Mr Scrivener QC said that his client, Virgin TV, had been treated unfairly when its programmes failed the quality thresholds set by the ITC.One criticism was that Virgin TV did not have enough staff on its news team. Mr Scrivener, however, said they had the same amount of staff as C5B… Continue reading Latest In Channel 5 Court Hearing
This year’s Radio Advertising Bureau Conference, to be held on 15 October, is to be opened by Troubleshooter Sir John Harvey-Jones. He will review the Commercial Radio industry, and particularly radio as an advertising medium.Douglas McArthur, managing director of the RAB, said, “We believe his analysis of the potential role of radio for the advertiser… Continue reading Sir John Harvey Jones To Open RAB Conference
