Channel 4’s decision to move the Derby from Wednesday to Saturday looks to be a mistake. Viewing figures for this year’s Derby are down from 4.2m last year to 3.8m this year, this is a fall of 10%. It had been hoped that moving the race from midweek to the weekend would be more viewer… Continue reading TV Viewing Summary W/E 11/06/95 – Derby Move A Flop
http://www.pavilion.co.uk/daccess/Part on-line magazine, part information service, Disabilities Access is an internet service for people with disabilities and for those who work with them.It funds itself, at least in part, by carrying advertising, offering a fairly broad and very astute range of packages.Services available to users include news headlines and news archives from Disability Now newspaper,… Continue reading Net Site Of The Week
The Sun is today offering its readers a Sun credit card; today’s paper has an application form in the middle pages. The Sun’s card is a MasterCard, backed by the HFC bank, who are the bank behind the GM card from Vauxhall.The credit card offers no annual fee for the first year, and an APR… Continue reading Sun Offers Credit Card To Readers
EMAP plc has announced that it is to acquire the business magazine publishing interests of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE), which include the weekly magazine New Civil Engineer and six other titles.Integral to the acquisition is a long term agreement for publication of New Civil Engineer and Civil Engineer International, which are the magazines… Continue reading Emap To Acquire New Civil Engineer
20% of Internet users do not read a daily newspaper according to research carried out by NOP. The research, designed to provide a profile of Internet users, involved face-to-face interviews with a nationally representative sample of 5,660 people aged 15+.Key findings include; 65% of Internet users are aged 15-34 6% of users are aged 55+… Continue reading Research Into Internet Users
Yesterday’s Rugby World Cup Semi-Final between England and New Zealand, which was shown live at 13:30 attracted an audience of 9.0 million viewers, according to unofficial overnights. This is almost 3 million more viewers than watched last week’s England v Australia match.Of these 9 million individuals, 5.1 million were men. This is a TVR of… Continue reading Rugby Semi-Final Attracts 9M Viewers
The fashion and style magazine, with Madame Figaro, will appear bi-monthly in The Observer Newspaper from October 29th with Mimi Spencer as it’s editor.The magazine which was distributed bi annually with The Guardian on a Saturday, since it’s launch in 1993, will accompany The Observer in a bid to attract more female readers to The… Continue reading Observer To Gain Madame Figaro
According to The Independent’s own estimates, the new look of the paper has dramatically increase sales in the past week. Relaunched last Saturday, the Independent is claiming average sales for last week of 302,303. If sales for the whole of June are maintained, this would give The Independent the highest circulation it has had since… Continue reading Independent Revamp Success Claim
Caledonian Newspapers, The Herald and Evening Times, have both put electronic versions of their titles on the Internet.The publications are the first Scottish national and regional daily newspapers on the Internet and are one component of a new Internet service by Caledonian Publishing subsidiary, Caledonian Information and Media Services (C.I.M.S.).The Herald and Evening Times launches… Continue reading Caledonian Newspapers Link To Net
Best, the women’s weekly published by Gruner & Jahr, is to sponsor the second series of ITV’s Special Babies. This is the first sponsorship of a factual series on the ITV Network. The first series of Special Babies averaged an audience of over 9 million.Best will also be running weekly features during the series, covering… Continue reading Best In First Factual Sponsorship
