The Guardian Media group has announced pre tax profits of £27.00m from £11.66m a percentage increase of 131.6%.The chairman, Mr Harry Roach said: “Looking ahead the trading conditions in the current year are more difficult. As the price of news print continues to escalate and the national newspaper cover price war continues, the pressure on… Continue reading Guardian Media Group Results
BBC1’s new soap opera about a middle-clase family which started on Wed 31 May, attracted just 7.67m viewers. This is half a million less than the last new BBC soap, Eldorado which attracted 8.3 millions for its first episode, before it was doomed to failure.ITV’s policy of ignoring bank holiday seems to be backfiring on… Continue reading TV Viewing Summary – Castles Only Attracts 7.67m
Viewing figures for the second week of the Rugby World Cup have been released and they show a marked increase in viewing compared to last week’s figures. The top figure this week was the 8.3m who saw England beat Western Samoa.Here are the viewing figures for the latest week’s live matches: Date Match Viewing Figures… Continue reading Rugby World Cup Viewing Figures
Northcliffe Newspapers have embarked on a new inititative which will sell to national clients direct. The new Client Direct Team has been developed from the national sales operation in Nottingham. The team will report to Debbie Kinlay, London Sales Director.
David Lees, sales and Marketing Director of Talk Radio UK has appointed Steve Johnson as his deputy. Steve Johnson will join Talk Radio as sales controller.In another move to strengthen the sales team, Lees has appointed Caroline Harnett as Sponsorship and Promotions Manager.David Lees said “Both Steve and Caroline have been integrally involved in successfully… Continue reading New Appointment At Talk Radio
QualitiesAll of the qualities had a good month in May; compared to April’s monthly figures all titles recorded an increase. The Times fared best, its monthly figure was up 5.42% on April to 664,501; this is an increase of 28.38% year on year. Its 6-monthly ABC was 631,448, an increase of 33.82%.Also faring well in… Continue reading National Press Round-Up – May
The 1994 Annual Report and Accounts of the ITC have been published. The report records that total ad revenue for commercial television broke the £2 billion barrier for the first time, in 1994, rising by just under 11% on 1993 to £2,087 million.Cable and satellite advertising revenue was up 35% overall, with a one per… Continue reading ITC 1994 Annual Report – 1994 Revenue Over £2bn
June 12th was the deadline for the application for the local delivery franchise for Wythall.The applicant is Birmingham Cable Ltd, the operator of the adjacent Birmingham Cable franchise. The application proposes to offer service by the end of 1996 to 4000 homes. The cash bid made by the applicant is £1.For more information contact: Mr… Continue reading Wythall Franchise Applied For
According to research conducted by the ISBA’s Press Action Group, advertisers would spend more money on press advertising if there was more readership data available.Respondents to the survey together account for £200m worth of press ad spend and nearly a third (31%) said the lack of readership data made them spend less in press advertising.The… Continue reading More Readership Details Say Advertisers
Today Channel 4 unveiled its summer programme schedule. It includes a wide and varied reach of programmes which include a bank holiday weekend devoted to science fiction called The Final Frontier; a 50th anniversary rememberance of Hiroshima; a strand of programmes examining the death penalty, called Lethal Justice, and a season of programmes for gay… Continue reading Channel 4 Summer Programme Launch
