The BBC has signed an £18 million four-year deal with the World Professional Billards and Snooker Association. The deal was accepted despite a more substantial offer from Rupert Murdoch’s BSkyB reported to be in the region of £100 million for a ten-year deal. The WPBSA decided that though the headline figure for the Sky offer… Continue reading BBC Snookers BSkyB Over Rights To Major Tournaments
Channel 5, which is expected to launch in January 1997, will hit Carlton and Granada hardest in terms of television revenues, according to a report out by Goldman Sachs. Carlton is expected to grow by just 1.5% , and Granada at 1.1% in 1997.The report predicts that Channel 5 will take revenues of £99m in… Continue reading Channel 5 Will Affect Carlton And Granada Revenues
ITV has managed its largest Sunday primetime viewing share to date this year, according to unofficial overnights. Fourteen million viewers tuned into the opening episode of The Beatles Anthology yesterday, which ITV expects to exceed 15 million once the consolidated figures are in.Heartbeat, at 7pm attracted an audience of 16.2 million; the Beatles, at 8pm… Continue reading ITV Claims Best Weekend So Far This Year
New data released today by the British Medical Association shows that tobacco advertising hooks children aged 11-14 to smoking in far greater numbers than adults.The data compares the top ten brands advertised with those smoked by children and adults, and shows that three out of four of the most heavily advertised brands also figure in… Continue reading Tobacco Advertising Hooks Children – Ban Called For
Reed Regional Newspapers, which have been for sale since July, have been sold to the management team, backed by US based investment firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & co.The 129 reed titles were sold for £205 million, and will transfer over from Reed Elsevier at the end of December. Jim Brown who will be chairman and… Continue reading Reed Regionals Bought By Management
The government’s new Broadcasting Bill, announced in the Queen’s speech this month, is expected to be delayed. It was expected to come before the House of Lords within two weeks, but is now unlikely to be introduced in parliament until the new year.The delay is believed to be due to disagreements between the Department of… Continue reading New Broadcasting Bill Delayed
The Sun newspaper has produced what it claims is its biggest ever issue, at 104 pages. Boosted by both a Rosemary West and a Xmas viewing pull-out, this effectively doubles the Sun’s pagination from its usual 50-odd pages.This year’s Christmas schedules from ITV and BBC show ITV in a big effort to improve its line-up… Continue reading Xmas Highlights Produce Biggest Ever Sun
In what is billed as the ‘first management buy-out in radio’ The Radio Partnership Ltd, a company set up by Neil Robinson and John Josephs, former chairman and MD of Metro Radio Group has bought Bradford based The Pulse (FM) and its sister AM station Great Yorkshire Gold from EMAP for £4,600,000. The buyout funding… Continue reading Management Buyout For The Pulse And Great Yorkshire Gold
The IPA’s third quarter Trends in TV report, out today, continues to show the long term declining trend in total TV vieiwing. The main points of the report are as follows:Across All TV average daily hours of viewing amongst individuals continues to fall: Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Full Year 1992 4.13 3.52 3.55 4.03 3.81… Continue reading IPA Third Quarter TV Trends Report
The ITC has announced that Peter Rogers is to be its new Chief Executive, taking over from David Glencross next March. Rogers is currently the ITC’s Deputy Chief Executive and Director of Finance.Emap Apex and Choice Publications have restructured their advertising sales departments. Loredana Roberts, currently Ad Director for Emap Apex has been promoted to… Continue reading ITC Chief Executive
