Greg Dyke is to return to broadcasting as chairman and chief executive of Pearson’s television interests. Dyke resigned as chief executive of LWT last February, after it was taken over by Granada in a hostile bid.Dyke will join Pearson on March 1 and will be responsible for expanding the group’s television interests worldwide. Pearson owns… Continue reading Dyke Joins Pearson
Viewing figures for BBC1’s National Lottery programme have fallen steadily since the first draw on November 19, which attracted over 20 million viewers. The latest figures, for December 31, show the programme attracting 12.53 million viewers.The top programme over the new year period was BBC1’s Auntie’s Bloomers, hosted by Terry Wogan, attracting 17.85 million viewers.… Continue reading Lottery Viewing Falls
Channel 4 is to run a version of Brookside in 30-second episodes on commercial radio, for 2 weeks from Janaury 17. The radio episodes will promote a week’s worth of TV episodes, when the soap, which normally runs 3 times a week, will be shown on 5 consecutive nights.As well as promoting the storyline the… Continue reading Brookside Radio Trial
Three senior executives – Jeremy Sinclair, acting Chairman, Bill Muirhead, US Chief Executive and David Kershaw, Head of London Operations – yesterday all resigned from troubled advertising agency Saatchi and Saatchi over their ‘anger at the Board’s decision to oust Maurice Saatchi as Group Chairman’, accusing the board of “commercial vandalism”.Unlike Maurice Saatchi the above… Continue reading Three More Quit At Saatchis
March 1 will see the launch of a new ‘classic’ car title from IPC called ‘Superclassics’. The new quarterly title targetting ‘the true classic car connoisseur’ will be A4 in format and cost £3.50.With an IPR of 40,000 plus, the new title enters into a market where IPC already have ‘Classic Cars’ with the highest… Continue reading New Classic Car Mag For IPC
Average weekly cinema admissions for November stand at 2.09 million according to the latest CAA figures; respresenting a year on year increase of 17.6%.The monthly total admissions figure for November is 8,9600,554, which adjusts the Moving Annual Total to 124,241,574.Films affecting the November figures included: Mary Shelley’s Frankstien, Pulp Fiction, The Client, The Lion King… Continue reading Cinema Admissions
Independent Grocer has relaunched as Independent Retail News, extending its circulation base to take in the independent CTN market and independent specialist off-licences, upping its distribution from 37,225 to 51,000.The Reed title now has a brighter consumer-magazine look. No rate changes have been made.
GMTV’s national ratecard, Volume Commitment Discount and Macro Region rates remain unchanged from 1994.There is a change to paragraph 8, section C of General Terms and Conditions, with reference to late payment surcharges. Ratecard Analyses for all stations follow later today.
In today’s Financial Times there is an an extended news article considering the threat MTV faces in its Asian markets from the new liaison between Star, Time Warner, Sony, Thorn-Emi and Bertelsmann. (Newsline Friday 06/01).
Brass Tacks Publishing has renamed its portfolio of titles – Which Mortgage, Which Pension, Which Savings etc will now be known as Your Mortgage, etc.
