Analysis of viewing figures for Saturday night (June 18th) show ITV’s share of male viewers peaking at 74% in the final minutes of the Ireland v Italy match.VIEWING FIGURES – MEN SHARE % BBC1 BBC2 ITV C4 2100 21.7 7.5 59.4 6.1 Kick off 21.10 2115 20 6.1 63 5.7 2130 19.9 5.3 64.3 5.7… Continue reading ITV Irish Soccer Share Peaks At 74%
On Tuesday, Virgin will submit a bid for one of the three London FM licences on offer this summer, in an attempt to gain better reception for Virgin 1215 in London and thereby increase their audience share.If successful, Virgin London would still be part of the Virgin 1215 network and have the same music and… Continue reading Virgin Bids For London FM Licence
The latest figures from GfK put Satellite Dish Ownership (Direct to Home) at 2.612 million as of 23rd April 1994. This represents an increase of 47,000 dishes since March 1994, and an increase of 414,000 dishes on April 1993 BARB’s latest figures (May 1994) put dish ownership at 2.739 million. BARB data includes Northern Ireland… Continue reading GfK Estimates Dish Ownership Up 15.8% In Last Year
Channel 4 chairman, Sir Michael Bishop, and chief executive, Michael Grade, yesterday met with Peter Brooke, the National Heritage secretary, to persuade him to remove present funding arrangements, which they say could result in Channel 4 paying £500m to ITV over 10 years. They claim this would go straight into ITV profits rather than funding… Continue reading ITV Hits Back Over Channel 4 Funding
Regional advertising monthly, Adline, completes the second stage of its relaunch in July, moving to a larger format, dedicating news pages to each region every month and becoming available through the bookstands for the first time.Adline – 021 446 4466
Guardian Media Group has confirmed that it is to seek a judicial review of the Radio Authority decision which has cleared the way for EMAP to mount a takeover bid for Trans World Communications (which owns radio stations in the north of England and in Wales). The bid has been cleared despite the fact that… Continue reading EMAP Takeover Of TWC To Be Legally Challenged
REVENUEThe combined TV revenue figure for May, based on agency estimates, came in at £175,434,200, the highest since October 1992 and an increase on May’93 of 22%. C4 and ITV revenue came in at £141.77m and £33.67m respectively. The ITV:C4 revenue share ratio is therefore 81:19 and shows ITV gaining a little ground from C4… Continue reading Television Round-Up – May
ITV is to return World in Action to the 8.30pm slot on Monday evenings, as part of a new Monday night schedule that will start when the World Cup has finished. The game show Wheel of Fortune will fill the 8.00pm slot directly against EastEnders and at 9.00pm, after World In Action, there will be… Continue reading World In Action Returns To Mondays
The board of Trans World Communications yesterday rejected Emap’s £70m takeover bid saying that the premium of 181p-a-share was not high enough. Trans World also warned that the bid could be subject to a legal challenge, as it would breach the legal limit of the number of licences held by any one group.Emap, which has… Continue reading Trans World Rejects Emap Offer
Unofficial overnight viewing figures for Saturday’s World Cup game between Ireland and Italy show the game achieved an average audience of 11.2m. The audience peaked at 13.3m towards the end of the match.The match was screened by ITV at 8.50pm on Saturday. Ireland’s next match, against Mexico, will be screened at 17.15pm on Friday.
