The Daily Star are starting a new Babe Watch promotion on Monday 13th March. The Babe Watch game has a daily prize of up to £1000. It will also feature a bonus for readers with a token collect weekly draw for a beach holiday for two in California.The four week promotion will involve a regenerative… Continue reading Daily Star Launches Babe Watch
Express Newspapers has released research into This Week, the Saturday supplement which was launched in September of last year. Qualitative and quantitative research was carried out prior, during and following the launch, and surveyed more than 750 readers of both the Daily Express and Daily Mail.75% of Daily Express readers rate This Week as excellent,… Continue reading This Week – Readership Survey
The Radio Authority has re-advertised the following local licences: Area Incumbent Expires Maidstone & Medway Invicta/SuperGold AM 31-Dec-96 East Kent Invicta/SuperGold AM 31-Dec-96 Teesside TFM Radio Ltd 31-Dec-96 Plymouth Plymouth Sound 31-Dec-96 A new local AM licence for the area of East Lancashire has been advertised, covering Blackburn, Burnley and northern districts of Greater Manchester.… Continue reading Radio Licences Re-Advertised
Viewers feel a sense of ownership towards their favourite programmes, and any sponsorship intruding on this has to act respectfully. This is one of the findings of a new independent qualitative survey from the Bloxham Group into programme sponsorship on commercial television.Conventional advertising is seen as a “take it or leave it affair”; if viewers… Continue reading Sponsorship Is Part Of The Programme
The publishers Dewberry Bowes and William Reed Publishing have teamed up to launch a new catering classified magazine. Catermart, a weekly publication will launch on April 3 with a cover price of 75p.Catermart, with an initial print run of 200,000, will carry no editor but will run advertising on recruitment, equipment, business opportunities and training.Page… Continue reading New Catering Launch
Castella Classic Cigars are to sponsor the British Snooker Open, held in Plymouth Pavilions next month, in a deal worth £325,000. The Castella Classic will take place from Saturday 1 April to Sunday 9 April and will be televised exclusively by Sky Sports.Graham Blashill, Sales and Marketing Director for Imperial Tobacco’s Cigar Division said, “We… Continue reading Castella Classic Cigars To Sponsor British Open
The Broadcasting Standards Council have just published their annual report on television sex, violence and bad language. The survey which analysed programmes over two weeks last year, and reactions of a panel of 425 viewers showed 53% of respondents found at least one programme which gave rise for concern.The BSC also found that women are… Continue reading Broadcasting Standards Council Publish Survey
March 16th sees the launch of IPC’s one shot, Fast and Classic Jets. It is aimed at air enthusiasts of the post-war era and the age of jets.Publisher, Stephen Curtis, is aiming the magazine at a younger readership which he claims will open up a new niche in the air enthusiast sector. If a success… Continue reading IPC Launches Fast And Classic Jets
Only one in four people think that the BBC is good value for its licence fee, according to the findings of CIA Sensor, a new fortnightly national survey from CIA MediaLab. Almost one third of respondents (31%) feel that the BBC does not provide enough programmes that they like, with 33% feeling that the quality… Continue reading BBC Fails To Offer “Good Value For Money”
Mike Mills is to be the new Advertising Manager of IPC Specialist Group monthly, Motor Boat and Yachting. He is currently Assistant Ad Manager and will take over from Chris Rogers when he retires at the end of March.… Saatchi’s media group director Richard Beaven is leaving to join Leo Burnett as group media director.…… Continue reading Appointments
