The European Commission has introduced new proposals to modify its five year old broadcasting directive. The current directive calls for broadcasters to ensure that half of their programming is of European origin. The new directive toughens this rule by removing a provision that it be applied “only where practicable.” The draft changes also narrow the… Continue reading European Broadcasting Directive – New Restrictions
Both ITV and BBC1 have today released their Christmas schedules. ITV once again put their faith in Christmas specials of their most popular programmes such as, Blind Date, Heartbeat and a Gladiators vs Celebrities special. Coronation Street’s main storyline revolves around Curly and Raquel getting engaged.BBC1 have a mixture of blockbuster movies and Christmas specials.… Continue reading Christmas Schedules For ITV & BBC1
Yesterday the 1994 Newspaper Design Awards were announced, with the Standard winning awards in five categories. The newspaper was the overall winner in the national daily newspapers section and ES magazine was overall winner in the Colour Supplements section.The design awards for news pages also went to the Standard; for feature pages it went to… Continue reading Newspaper Design Awards – Standard Wins
Videotron, the Canadian cable operator has reported for the year ending August 31. Despite a 10% increase in revenues in Canada and the UK, net profit was down to C$20.5m from C$25.1m last year. Videotron said that the UK area would contribute more in 1995.
Preliminary trading in London and New York of UK Cable company TeleWest yesterday valued the company at £1.8bn. Shares were six times subscribed and have been priced at 182p. TeleWest is the first UK cable company to join the London Stock Exchange.
The ITC has trialled (and hopes to make available by 1996) a system which improves picture quality for those viewers who are affected by ghosting. ‘Ghosting’ affects hundreds of thousands of homes, in built-up and hilly areas.ITC: 071 255 3000
The IPA has released its latest Trends in Television Viewing Report, for Q3 1994. The decline in the overall amount of television viewed measured by BARB continues but still at the slightly slower rate observed last quarter.ITV seems to be regaining some ground, and pushing the BBC share, especially BBC2, back down a little. C4’s… Continue reading Tv Viewing Continues In Decline – IPA Viewing Report
Ladbrokes, the first bookmaker to sponsor a UK television programme has signed a deal with BSkyB to sponsor the football news programme Soccer News on Sky Sports. The 15 minute programme is broadcast twice a day Mondays – Thursdays.
Religious conversion theory and catastrophe theory were dramatically brought into play at the MRG on Monday night when Thomson Regional Newspapers, (the UK’s largest regional publisher) announced details of several new reader research techniques in their latest research into regional readership.(Media Compass).Emphasising the need to move closer to the needs of the advertiser, speaker Alan… Continue reading Media Compass – MRG Evening
Granada Group has announced results for the year ending October 1 this morning with pre-tax profits up by 50.8% from £176m last year to £265.4m. Turnover was £2.097bn. The dividend also increased by 14% from 8.75p to 10p. The TV interests doubled, to £85m.
