Express Newspapers has announced it is to make around 220 redundancies this year, costing £7.7m. In a statement, the Express says that the internal reorganisation has come about as a result of the “radidly changing media environment”. The cost of the redundancies it hopes will be recouped within a year by a reduction in operating… Continue reading Express To Make 220 Redundancies
June’s national newspaper ABCs show that the Independent’s revamp at the beginning of June was a successful move, with its Jnecirculation at 303,273,breaking the 300,000 mark for the fit time since Novemer 1993. This was an increase of 9.3% on last June’s figure, second only in terms of year on yearincrase to theTimes, which was… Continue reading Latest ABCs – Good News For Independent
BARB monthly universe estimates for July 95 have come in as follows: Total Dish Cable SMATV (000s) (000s) (000s) (000s) Jul 94 3667 2754 823 90 Jul 95 4430 3138 1222 70 Whilst dish sales still remain the major form of access to non terrestrial TV, their sales are slowing compared to connections via cable.… Continue reading Cable sales Up Over 48%
The Labour leader, Tony Blair has told 200 editors and executives of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation that much of the UK’s media regulation framework is obsolete and Labour is committed to an “open and competitive media market.”In his speech in Australia, Mr Blair outlined Labour’s proposals on media and technology to News Corporation in a… Continue reading Blair Addresses Murdoch’s News Corporation
According to yesterday’s Sunday Times, ITV is demanding cuts of between £10m and £20m per year in the budget for News at Ten and other networked news bulletins. The savings would go towards increasing comedy output, in a bid to appease advertiser criticisms. ITN would not comment this morning, but has announced that its lead… Continue reading News At Ten – Budget Cut?
The first titles to release their January to June circulation figures are the Gruner + Jahr titles Best and Prima. The weekly Best appears unaffected by the launch of Eva, recording an increase year on year of 7.9% to 572,367. Prima, however, recorded a loss of 1.4% year on year to 557,338. JAN-JUN’94 JAN-JUN’95 %… Continue reading First Jan To June Consumer ABCs – G+J
Derek Hemment has been appointed deputy chief executive of Laser and Philip France has been appointed managing director. Gary Knight and Simon Pardon are both appointed as executive sales directors and will jointly manage the newly-merged sales department, supported by six account directors. Ian McCulloch is operations director.Mick Desmond, Chief Executive of Laser, said, “We… Continue reading Laser Restructuring – Appointments
In recent years the men’s monthly magazines market has grown considerably. There are currently nine titles in the market. Four were launched in the past five years with the latest addition, Ikon, launching at the end of July.The expanding sector has seen massive growth in terms of copies sold lately; in a year on year… Continue reading Mens Monthly Style Magazine Roundup
The Telegraph has released what it claims is the first ever global qualitative research live on the Internet for its on-line version, the Electronic Telegraph. (http://www.telegraph.co.uk).The results show that the majority of users are male and under 40, intelligent and computer literate. Most readers use computers in their jobs in industries ranging from business to… Continue reading ET Users – Not Readers Of Any Other Paper
Coca-Cola has appointed Publicis as its local service agency for Europe, replacing McCann-Erickson. The move does not however affect the creative work, which will continue to be carried out by the Creative Services Agency. Media planning and buying will still be carried out by McCanns.
