Emap has acquired magazines in two areas, meat trades titles and construction. Emap has bought Foodshop, Scottish Butcher and What Machine from Tony Pike’s Smithfield Publishing for an undisclosed sum.Emap have also acquired Construction News from the Thomson Corporation for a cash consideration of £7.6m. Construction News has a paid-for circulation of 30,000 and in… Continue reading Emap Acquisitions
Independent computer publisher, Maverick has axed two of its Sega Megadrive magazines, Megatech and Megadrive and Megadrive Advanced Gaming and bought Emap Image’s The One Amiga.The Advanced Gaming last issue has gone to press for September and Megatech closed last month.For further details: Maverick, 01865 202777.
Helena Hudson is to join Optimedia, heading the £7m L’Oreal and Lancome accounts. Hudson, who was O&M Media’s former press buying manager, will join Optimedia as a media account director in mid – August.Optimedia 0171 935 0040.The National Magazine Company has appointed Marc Hope, agency manager of Readers Digest as ad director of House Beautiful.… Continue reading Appointments – Optimedia, NatMags and IPC
Commercial radio has at last achieved over 50% share of listening; the Q2 1995 Rajar figures show a 50.1% share. Commercial radio’s share has been steadily growing; two years ago its share was 38.9%; last year’s Q2 figure was 47.4%, and Q1 1995’s figure was 48.4%.Commercial radio has increased its weekly reach to 28.6m listeners,… Continue reading Commercial Radio Achieves Over 50% Of Radio Listening For
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General InterestThe latest round of readership figures, for the period Jan to June 1995, show Sky magazine losing a further 11,000 readers on December to May 1995. This is a decrease of 54% on last year’s Jan to June figures, before Sky’s card was changed to differentiate it from Sky TV Guide. Sky’s latest figure,… Continue reading NRS Round-Up Jan-Jun 1995
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 latest figure for commercial radio revenue has been released; for the period April to June 1995, revenue was £66.087 million. This is an increase of 25.4% year on year, and an increase of £9m on Q1 this year.Radio was the fastest growing medium in the past two years, and on current performance looks set… Continue reading Radio Revenue Up 25%
Virgin FM in London is reaching just under 1 million listeners a week, according to the latest Rajar figures released this afternoon. The figures for Quarter 2 1995 give Richard Branson’s first FM station a 3.3% share of listening in the London region and a weekly reach of 9% (917,000).Capital FM’s listenership appears to be… Continue reading Virgin Fm Achieves 9% Weekly Reach
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
