… Labour Leader, Tony Blair is to meet senior executives of the cable industry next week. It is believed to be a bid to soothe tensions caused by Labour’s deal with BT to connect schools and libraries to the information superhighway.
Premier Radio, the UK’s only Christian commercial radio station has announced a major restructuring today “designed to reduce costs sharply”. This will involve management and staff restructuring, as well as programme changes which will aim to increase audience in both numbers and listening hours.The speech/music ratio, currently 75:25 will change to near 50:50; “This will… Continue reading Money Crisis Causes Christian Radio To Change Format
John Smith’s is to build on the association it already has with Jack Dee through its television advertising campaign by sponsoring his Saturday night television show.John Smith’s will sponsor six shows from 9 December onwards. Broadcast at 10pm, each forty-five minute show features celebrity guests such as Lily Savage, Seal, Stomp, Hale & Pace and… Continue reading John Smiths Continues Dee Association
Northcliffe Newspapers have announced personnel changes in both the marketing and advertising departments. Clairedy Gardiner-Hyne, London Advertisement Manager will be made Senior London Advertisement Manager.Mike Ratcliffe, formerly Client Services Manager at Thomson Media Sales will become Client Services Manager for Northcliffe Newspapers from Monday, and also joining from TMS is Karen Smyth, as London Advertisement… Continue reading Northcliffe Appointments
The Chancellor stood up at 3.31pm.The Chancellor predicted 2.75% economic growth for this year and 3% growth next year. Inflation should remain under control, reaching its target of under 2.5% by the end of next year.Public Sector Borrowing Requirements- PSBR £29 billion for this year(1995/96) £7bn less than last year, £16 billion less than previous… Continue reading Budgetline
National Heritage Secretary Virginia Bottomley yesterday announced a new BBC Charter and Agreement, and also announced that the BBC’s transmission service is to be privatised. This is expected to bring in around £100m for the BBC.The new Charter and Agreement are designed to “allow the BBC to meet the broadcasting challenges of the 21st Century”.… Continue reading BBC Changes Announced – To Allow Multi-Media Future
BSkyB has secured the television rights to The Football League Championship and Football League Cup from the start of next season.Under a five year deal, starting in August 1996, Sky will broadcast up to 60 Football League matches exclusively live each season, featuring clubs from all three divisions. In addition, all three end-of-season promotion play… Continue reading BSkyB Secures Football Rights
Grampian Television has continued its record of profits’ increase with the announcement that their pre-tax profits have risen by 62% to £2.9million for the six-months ended 31 August 1995.Calum MacLeod, Grampian Television Chairman commented that “These results owe much to a 10.4% increase in Grampian’s advertising revenue over the period compared with a rise of… Continue reading Grampian Profits Up By 62%
Revenue Revenue for October, traditionally the best month for TV revenue, was this year over the £200m mark, at £202,715,300; this is an increase of 6.4% year on year. Of this total, Channel 4 and GMTV fared best, up 18.1% and 10.2% respectively. Channel 4’s total was £45.8m, GMTV’s was £10.05m. The ITV/C4 split shows… Continue reading Television Round-Up – October
Andrew Neil, former editor of the Sunday Times has confirmed today that he is putting together a bid for the Express Newspapers. Neil has raised around £300 million to try to buy the titles, despite constant denials from United News and Media that they are not for sale.Andrew Neil, speaking today on BBC Radio confirmed… Continue reading Andrew Neil Confirms Express Bid
