The usual round of leaks ahead of a the next RAJAR data (released Tuesday) are said to show that commercial radio has about 200,000 listeners more than BBC radio now (28m compared with 27.8m).ILR is said to have achieved a 47% reach (22m); Radio 1 is down further to 24% (11m), and Atlantic and Virgin… Continue reading Commercial Radio Overtakes BBC
Reed Regional Newspapers has relaunched the Wimbledon News, previously a free title, as a 72-page paid-for.
At the annual meeting of News Corporation yesterday, Rupert Murdoch admitted that the Sun’s 20p cover price cost the paper £1m a week at one stage. He said that the price of the paper, now 22p,would gradually rise.“We expect to hold the majority of our circulation gain as we go back up in price slowly.”Of… Continue reading Sun Price To ‘Rise Slowly’, Times To Stay At 20p.
A House of Commons debate, sponsored by the Newspaper Society, voted decisively in favour of newspapers having a major role to play in new interactive media markets, but newspaper consultant Jim Chisholm warned that,in the UK,government legislation could stop the multimedia revolution getting off the ground.Crenagh Lodge, chairman of CLK argued that newspapers would only… Continue reading Newspapers Positioned To Drive New Information Highways
A new study by CIT Research finds that 32 million of the 155 million homes in Western Europe are now cable TV subscribers. Of 47 million households able to watch satellite TV, just under 70% do so via cable TV networks.CIT predicts that there will be 55 million cable TV households in W. Europe by… Continue reading Cable TV Networks Reach One In Five In Western Europe
Twix has signed up for a second time as the sponsor of the ITV Chart Show,which returns on Saturday (October 22). This was the first ITV programme to be sponsored.
Express Newspapers is embarking on the final stages of research into readership of its weekend sections-“This Week” (the Daily Express Saturday review section) and “Classic” (Sunday Express 3 section).Details of the research should be available by late November.A report in today’s Marketing Week that the Sunday Express is searching for a new agency is jumping… Continue reading Express Researches Weekend Sections
The ITC is inviting applications for the cable licence covering the whole of Northern Ireland, approximately 530,000 homes. Applicants do not have to cover the whole area.The application deadline is January 23rd 1995.
London is the biggest winner in the new Establishment Data, delayed figures released today, showing an increase of 0.2 percentage points to 19.64%. The South and South East, which increased its share most in the June 1993 survey has slipped back from 9.58% to 9.44%. Granada which saw its share cut from 11.71% to 11.56%… Continue reading New Establishment Survey.
QualitiesThe Times continued to show the effects of its price cut in September with its monthly ABC rising above 600,000 for the first time to 607,143. This is an increase of 1.6% on August and an increase of 37.3% on September last year. The newspaper’s 6-monthly figure for April to September showed an increase of… Continue reading National Press Round Up – September
