The Office of Fair Trading has said that the Disney Channel, which has been available through BSkyB along with the two premium movie channels, must be offered on a non exclusive basis.Complaints from other cable operators led the OFT to reconsider BSkyB’s position. In letters to the operators, the OFT said the terms of the… Continue reading OFT Ends BskyB/Disney Exclusivity
ITV have acquired the rights to the European Rugby World Cup after signing a multi million pound three year deal with European Rugby Cup Ltd.The European Rugby Cup will kick off in Romania on October 31 when the home club champions Farul Contanta, entertain the French double winners, Toulouse.ITV who are already signed up for… Continue reading Euro Rugby World Cup Rights
Tony Blin Stoyle, advertisement director of the Financial Times has left his position and has been appointed as planning director of FT Media as part of a reshuffle. The new position will put him in charge of investigating new media opportunities and masterminding cross media sales within the Pearson Group.David Pugh is leaving his position… Continue reading Press Departures
Television viewing for the week ending 15/10/95 has risen by 1.5% when compared to the same week last year. Commercial television has for the second week in a row managed to achieve more than 50% share of the television viewing audience (50.6%).Programmes doing well this week include ITV’s one-off drama Bliss, which attracted 9.99 million… Continue reading TV Viewing Summary
The first joint conference held by the Incorporated Society of British Advertisers (ISBA) and the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising (IPA) is to be held in London on 9 November.The 1995 Client Agency Conference will include a keynote speech from Dick Johnson, Director of Corporate Affairs at Procter & Gamble. Other speakers include Ron Leagas,… Continue reading First IPA/ISBA Joint Conference – Details
SoapsCoronation Street is still the top rated soap opera programme for the three months from July to September 1995. The most popular episode was Wednesday of w/e 1st October which was watched by 16.4 million. Coronation Street has thirteen entries ahead of Eastenders’ highest placing for the Tuesday edition shown in the same week, which… Continue reading July-Sept 1995 Top Programmes
http://www.tcc.co.uk/TCC formerly known as The Children’s Channel has launched on the Internet. The launch was held in conjunction with the Cafe Internet last night and saw the stars of the children’s programme, Sweet Valley High, answer questions from around the country on the Internet.The TCC site, called 24-Seven, has a bright energetic feel with in-yer-face… Continue reading TCC – Net Site Of The Week
TV RevenueCombined ITV/C4 revenue for September, according to agency estimates, came in at £180.57m, an increase of 5.2% on last year, the highest figure taken this year apart from May, when total revenue came in at £183.115m. The ITV/C4 split was 78:22, with revenues being £141.44m and £39.13m respectively.Among the contractors, Carlton had its lowest… Continue reading Television Round-Up – September
The National Watch Fellowship is to launch a new quarterly magazine at the end of October aimed at members of Neighbourhood Watch schemes.Neighbourhood is to be a subscription based title published by Neighbourhood publishing but will initially be distributed free to the co-ordinators of the watch schemes and will have an initial print run of… Continue reading New Magazine For Neighbourhood Watch
National Newspapers must give better deals to long-term advertisers, offer added value and work together to create a “RAB-style” joint marketing initiative, otherwise the forecast rate of press ad inflation of up to 10% will be unacceptable to many advertisers. The warning comes from CIA Medianetwork, who have announced a way to beat national press… Continue reading Press Inflation Up 10% For 1996
