Scottish Television has announced half year profits, for the period to June 30 this year, of £7.4m.Scottish Television, which has under gone heavy cost cutting measures with the sale of the company’s loss making outplacement in the spring, has experienced a turnaround in fortune with an operating profit which has increased by 600% and profit… Continue reading Scottish TV Half Year Profits
The 1995 British Business Survey conducted by Research Services Ltd has been released. The BBS is the readership and marketing study of the business community in the UK which screens around 70,000 households. Business men and women are identified and personally interviewed. The response rate for the current survey of 56.6% exceeded that of the… Continue reading RSL Releases Latest BBS
http://www.dotmusic.comFollowing the news earlier this week that Miller Freeman (formerly Morgan Grampian) has launched net sites for its electronic titles, it has announced the launch of a music business magazine specifically designed for the internet on 21 August. Miller Freeman claims to be the first UK publisher to achieve this, claiming other magazine sites are… Continue reading Music Business Gets Own Site
The Guardian Newspaper is to launch an A5 version of its Saturday listings supplement, The Guide, in Manchester this autumn. The guide is so far only distributed in the London/South East area.
The latest round of consumer ABCs to be released includes the BBC and Conde Nast titles. The BBC titles, except for Gardeners’ World, recorded increases year on year, with the best performer being Vegetarian Good Food, up 14.91%. ABC Totals January to June 1994 January to June 1995 % Change Actual Change BBC VEGETARIAN GOOD… Continue reading Jan To June ABCs – BBC, Emap And Conde Nast
The BBC yesterday announced the line up for its autumn programming. According to the Corporation, £168 million has been spent. This includes 75 hours of new drama and 22 fresh comedy and variety shows amongst mare than 520 hours of original BBC programming.The Autumn schedule includes a documentary, Peoples Century which has cost the BBC… Continue reading BBC Announces Autumn Schedule
Nynex CableComms PLC and Nynex CableComms Group Inc have announced 2nd quarter operating statistics for the period ended 30 June 1995. Interim financial figures are expected to be released on Tuesday 8th August 1995.Residential telecommunications lines have increased by over 35,000 in the quarter, five times as many as were added in the same quarter… Continue reading Nynex 2nd Quarter Statistics
Television viewing for the week ending 23/07/95 has risen by 2.6% when compared to the same week last year, although both commercial terrestrial channels recorded a fall in their average weekly viewing.For the first time since 14/05/95 all of Channel 4’s top ten programmes have an audience of over three million, with Friday’s episode of… Continue reading TV Viewing Summary w/e 23/07/95
QVC, the television shopping channel, has increased net sales for the second calendar quarter to £7.38 million. This compares to £2.81 million for the same period last year.According to QVC the third quarter has started well for the 21 month old channel, with July gross orders over seven days of £1.24m which beat its ’94… Continue reading QVC Triples Size Of Call Centre To Cope With Demand
The new licence for the Chichester, Bognor Regis and Littlehampton area has been issued to South West Sussex Radio Ltd.The station will provide music, local news, information and speech based programmes. Jim Brooks, chairman of the Volunteer Group said that music will cover late ’50’s and ’60’s. The audience profile will be aged between 25-55.… Continue reading SWSR Radio To Launch In March
