IPC and Nat Mags have today announced that they have reached a settlement of the action which National Magazines had brought against IPC over the launch of IPC’s Homes & Ideas infringing copyright on their House Beautiful.As part of the settlement, IPC will make some changes to Homes & Ideas, from the May issue. This… Continue reading IPC And Nat Mags Reach Agreement Over Homes & Ideas
The Sun is to return as sponsor of ITV’s Play Your Cards Right, following its sponsorship in 1994. The new series begins a 16-week run at 7pm on Friday 10 February, with new sponsorship credits. The sponsorship will be supported with off-air game cards distributed in the Sun.ITV research into the 1994 sponsorship showed that… Continue reading Sun To Re-Sponsor Play Your Cards Right
Radio Mercury, broadcasting in the Guildford area has lost its re-application for the AM/FM licences, which have been awarded to a new applicant, Surrey and North East Hampshire Radio Ltd.The Radio Authority said that Surrey and North East Hampshire Radio better catered for the tastes and interests of people in the area, and had “considerable… Continue reading Mercury Loses Licences
The European’s revamped section, MagAZine, launched this week. Now a glossy 32-page tabloid supplement replacing Elan, MagAZine is based around an A-Z each week. This ensures a certain amount of editorial every week, and also variety. Some of the first issue’s subjects are Art, covering the Italian photographer who shoots for Benetton; Exhibition, on a… Continue reading European Magazine – Review
BSkyB yesterday confirmed that it has signed a deal with Reuters. Under the agreeement, Sky News will retain editorial control but Reuters will provide behind-the-camera services and additional news both in the UK and abroad. Reuters will also provide particular programmes for Sky News.This is the second deal recently between Reuters and television companies belonging… Continue reading BSkyB Signs Deal With Reuters
Time Warner, the US Media Group, announced yesterday that it has withdrawn from the bidding for Channel 5. The group was a partner in the bidding consortium which includes MAI and Pearson.Farrell Meisel, senior vice-president of Time Warner Broadcasting UK, said a “number of uncertainties on the technical side” had resulted in his decision to… Continue reading Time Warner To Drop Out Of C5 Bid
The National Magazine Company’s latest ABCs have been officially released this morning, showing a healthy picture for its women’s titles. Good Housekeeping, up 10.8% year on year to 190,717 has recorded its highest ever figure. Company increased circulation a massive 17.2% to 305,592, and She fared better than it has recently, up 11.6% to 281,109.Esquire’s… Continue reading National Magazines ABCs – IPC
Channel 4’s Brookside, which is on every evening this week to cover the unearthing of murdered Trevor has pulled in an extra 3 million on its usual figures. Brookside has been achieving ratings of around 3.8m, but its audience on Tuesday, according to unofficial overnights reached 6.4 million.
The combined ITV/C4 revenue figure for December, based on agency estimates, came in at £156.84m, up 9.3% on December 1993. The ITV figure was £123.84m, up 6.6% year on year; C4’s figure was £33m, up 20.7% year on year. The ITV:C4 split was 79:21, an improvement for C4 from 80:20.Among contractors, the best performance was… Continue reading Television Round-Up – December TV Revenue
VH-1, MTV’s sister music channel which launched in September last year is to launch on cable in London. VH-1 will launch on Videotron, London’s largest cable network on 1st February. On 1st March it will launch on the Encom cable network. This means that VH-1 will be available to over 80% of the capital’s cable… Continue reading VH-1 To Launch On Cable
