WPP, the advertising group which includes JWT and O&M, has released results this morning for the six months to June 30. Pre-tax profits are up 50% from £24.13m to £36.2m. Turnover was £2.87bn. WPP’s shares rose 12p yesterday to close at 123p, in anticipation of healthy results today. At 9.30am the price had dropped 4p… Continue reading WPP Profits Up 50%
The BBC’s Autumn season, at a total cost of £165m, includes 82 hours of new drama and 25 fresh comeday and variety shows.The comedy season includes Dawn French as a vicar in The New Vicar, by the writer of Four Weddings and a Funeral, Timothy Spall is in a Nice Day At The Office with… Continue reading BBC Autumn Season
Arcbuild ’94, readership research of the building industry, has been released. Building, The Builder Group’s title, came out as the best read title out of all the building workers identified, with a total average issue readership of 38%. The survey covers architects, surveyors, engineers, contractors and housebuilders. Second in the survey was Building Design, with… Continue reading Arcbuild ’94 Results
Research commissioned from Media Audits by The Independent in June, profiles readers of the paper using BARB Additional Panel data. This panel questions all respondents on the paper they read in the last seven days.Independent readers are said to prefer BBC to ITV and watch more Channel 4 than most broadsheet readers. 64.6% described themselves… Continue reading Profile Of An Independent Reader
Despite claiming that EMAP’s offer of 181p a share does not reflect the company’s “improving performance” (see results, Newsline yesterday), Trans World Communications has recommended EMAP’s £71m bid.Last week The Guardian Media Group, which owns 20% of TWC, failed in a High Court bid to prevent EMAP’s takeover, claiming it broke rulings restricting the number… Continue reading Trans World Gives In To Emap Offer
All figures relate to the percentage reach of that particular programme to all reader of that particular newspaper (e.g Coronation Street reached 29.8% of Daily Mail readers during June).The data was calculated by Media Audits using BARB data from June 1994 where the panel registered newspaper readership. Sun Mirror Star Sport Today Mail Express Coronation… Continue reading Television Viewing By Newspaper Readers
National Magazines’ House Beautiful, which cut its cover price to £1 for the August issue “to boost a weak summer market”, has announced a more permanent price cut from £1.40 to £1.30. Its most direct competitor, Homes & Ideas costs £1.20 monthly.House Beautiful announced a new ABC of 320,396 recently, 6.7% down on July-Dec but… Continue reading House Beautiful Cuts Price
Director of programming, David Elstein, and deputy MD, David Chance, are being tipped as the leading contenders to fill the slot vacated at Sky News by Kelvin Mackenzie last week. An outsider for the role is Bruce Gyngell, former TV-am boss, and now working for Kerry Packer’s Channel 9.
The Newcastle Chronicle & Journal is launching The Journal Business Magazine on September 5th (circ 30,000, distributed with the City edition of the paper). York & County Press has launched Admart, a shopper-style free newspaper (circ 62,000 to homes and businesses in York and Wetherby.
