The Independent Television has awarded the local delivery for Totton and Hythe to the sole bidder, Videotron Southampton and Eastleigh Ltd. The cash bid from Videotron for the Totton and Hythe franchise was £1, supplementing the percentages of qualifying revenue set by the ITC. Videotron proposes to serve 25,199 homes by the end of 1998.The… Continue reading Franchise Awards
Quorn House Publishing is set to launch a new health and fitness magazine for women aged between 20-65 early next year.Rosemary Conley’s Diet and Fitness Magazine, launching on the 18th January will be a glossy bi-monthly with an initial print run of 400,000 and a cover price of £1.70. The editorial will feature diets, exercises… Continue reading New Women’s Health Magazine
The Incorporated Society of British Advertisers (ISBA) will be discussing monitoring sponsorship activities and how to make those activities work at the 16th Annual Sponsorship Conference which is to be held on 21st September 1995 in London at the Marriott Hotel W1.Publicity Manager for Cornhill Insurance, Geoff Mayhew, will be raising the question “Monitoring your… Continue reading ISBA Annual Sponsorship Conference
IPC has set up a dedicated New Media Publishing team with the appointment of Jonathan Newby and Colin Tough as the two publishers to head up the company’s brand development activities in electronic publishing.IPC’s planned activities encompass all aspects of New Media, with several key initiatives to be announced shortly, including “a significant publishing development… Continue reading IPC To Launch On Internet
QualitiesThe August ABCs for the National Newspapers show the Times again having a good month, with a market share among the quality dailies of over 25%; this is an increase of 0.9% on July and represents a considerable rise on the 18% share the Times had pre-price war. The Times’ monthly circulation figure was up… Continue reading National Press Round-Up – August
National Heritage Secretary, Virginia Bottomley has set out her views on the economic and cultural importance of the British television industry, and on its future opportunities and obligations.Speaking at the Royal Television Society Biennial Convention in Cambridge, Mrs Bottomley said that the television industry was a great British success story but needed to exercise its… Continue reading Bottomley Addresses Royal Television Society
The ITC has recieved four applications for the local delivery franchise for Eastbourne and Hastings. The applications are: Homes By Cash Bid Bell Cablemedia PLC 130,000 2002 £3,873,536 Eurobell (E.Sussex) 147,444 2001 £3,102,607.25 E.Sussex Cable and Telecoms LTD 144,000 2002 £2,558,880 Metro Communications (Sussex) 120,000 2003 £1,413,131.31 The ITC has said that it hopes to… Continue reading Eastbourne Cable Franchise Applicants
Trinity International Holdings have announced operating profits for the six months to 1st July 1995.Pre-tax profit rose 21.3% to £13.3m and earnings per share rose 18.3% to 12.9p Commenting on the results, Phillip Graf, Trinity’s Chief Executive said “The results reflect a good performance in the UK businesses. The proposed acquisition of certain regional newspaper… Continue reading Trinity Results
The latest ABC figures have been released for the six months ending 06/95. Big Issue performed best with a 24.70% increase. Exchange and Mart fared less well with circulation down by 23.87% – an actual decrease of 35,756. Ending 06/94 Ending 06/95 % Change Actual Change Big Issue 87,027 108,526 24.7 21,499 Perfect Home 101,368… Continue reading Latest ABC Figures
There are now over 1 million cable television subscribers, according to the latest ITC cable statistics; 1,044,290 broadband homes were connected as of 1 July this year, an increase of over 330,000 or 48% on the previous year. However, cable telephony has been the fastest growing part of the cable operators’ business, with the number… Continue reading Cable Subscribers Now Over 1 Million
