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
TSMS has promoted its operations director Gill Emery to assistant managing director; Ian Davis, joint sales director becomes agency sales director, and Andy Farwell, joint sales director becomes sales negotiations director.
IPC is claiming that Loaded magazine has taken market leadership in the younger men’s lifestyle magazine sector with a 26% share of all advertising pages for July issues.In an internal review of pages, Loaded achieved 54.2 pages in comparison to Sky with 44.3, FHM with 45.8, The Face with 35 and I-D with 28.8.Karen Swan,… Continue reading Loaded Claims 26% Of All July Ad Pages
Mills and Allen has replaced its departing sales director, Michael Higgins, with Paul Shearring, current group head.
BBJ Media Services have just published the initial results from a long-term study into the media habits of young people. The project, Media 2000, is monitoring 2 groups taken from 2 secondary schools in West London.Media 2000 will track one set of 202 fourteen-year olds through until the year 2000, recording on a quarterly basis… Continue reading Tango Is Most Popular Ad Among School Children
SelecTV has announced preliminary results for the year ending 31 March 1995. The financial results show a pre tax profit of £1.32m compared with £926,000 in 1994. Profits for this year were boosted by the London cable station Channel 1.SelecTV announced that if UKTV is awarded the Channel 5 licence, it will subscribe to 20%… Continue reading SelecTV Preliminary Results
In its annual report published yesterday, the Broadcasting Standards Council said that complaints had risen dramatically in the past year. The Council recorded a 31% rise in the number of complaints directed to the BSC during 1994-95.“Complaints relating to violence, sex, taste and decency rose from 1711 in 1993/4 to 2247 in 1994/95. While the… Continue reading Complaints To BSC Rise
BBC1’s decision to switch The New Adventures of Superman with Steve Wright’s People Show has seen a decline in viewing for both programmes. Steve Wright’s viewing has nearly halved and Superman lost 1.3 million. Saturday, with the exception of the National Lottery, is a bad day for BBC1 with all of its prime-time programmes being… Continue reading TV Viewing Summary W/E 02/07/95
SIS, the company that supplies bookmakers with live horse racing looks set to launch a cable channel. The channel would broadcast live coverage of horse races, with specialist analysis and the assessment of form.It will probably take the form of a stand alone subscription channel costing the viewers about £5 per week and will be… Continue reading SIS To Launch Horse Racing Channel
Thomson has announced it will consider offers for its remaining regional titles, based in Aberdeen and Edinburgh; these include the Edinburgh Evening News and Aberdeen Herald and Post. If no suitable offers for the Scottish titles are received, they will be kept on by Thomson.Thomson has said that it will concentrate on its legal, professional,… Continue reading Thomson Puts Remaining Titles Up For Sale
