News Corporation has announced results for the nine months to the end of March. Overall the corporation achieved a 27.6% increase in profits, to A$852.8M (£410m). This increase was due to associate companies, such as BSkyB, of which News Corporation owns 50%. BSkyB had 3.4m subscribers, an increase of 1m since last June.Operating profits on… Continue reading News Corporation Results – Newspapers Down
QVC, the television home shopping channel which launched in the UK last October, is planning to expand into Europe with local language channels in Germany, France and Italy launching next year. Plans are also underway to launch channels in Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Belgium later this year. These will be English-based with bilingual telephone operators.William… Continue reading QVC To Expand Into Europe
BSkyB is to launch a new monthly listings magazine in September called Sky TV Guide. It will replace the quarterly Sky Plus and will cover full listings and editorial highlights for all Sky and Sky Multi Channels programmes.The 148-page magazine will have an initial circulation of 2.7m and will be mailed to all subscribers of… Continue reading BSkyB To Launch Sky TV Guide
At the PPA Conference held on Tuesday 3 May, there were calls for a “Magazine Advertising Bureau”, to promote the magazine industry as a whole to advertisers, in a similar way to the Radio Advertising Bureau.The consumer press session addressed the response to last year’s challenge which was decided on at the conference; magazine publishers… Continue reading PPA Call For Mag Ad Bureau
Gold Greenlees Trott plc has formed a new media agency with the CIA Group, called Media Solutions Group. The joint venture will consist of GGT Advertising’s media department in London and the Manchester based media independent, CIA Media Solutions Ltd.The new media independent will be based in both London and Manchester, and will have combined… Continue reading GGT/CIA Joint Initiative
Reed Regional Press is to use direct copy transmission facilities through BT’s ISDN lines. The system will be available by the end of May, and will give advertisers’ direct access to Reed’s regional papers. Reed is the first major regional publisher to offer this service.NEW PRESIDENT FOR NEWSPAPER SOCIETYGerry Holbrook, managing director of Yorkshire Post… Continue reading Reed To Use ISDN
The ITC has approved some variations to the GMTV licence, after the breakfast station appealed to the ITC last year to make greater allowance in the flexibility of its rolling format.The original licence, which was granted in February 1992, specified the minimum time, on a weekly basis, for different categories of programmes: news, sport, factual… Continue reading GMTV Wins Licence Variations
Coors Extra Gold is to sponsor Sky Television’s coverage of the American Major League Baseball.Nescafe has renewed its sponsorship of Virgin 1215’s Big Red Mug Show on Saturday Mornings. The three year-deal is worth £2m.
EMAP has bought FHM, the independently owned men’s style magazine FHM. From the June issue, the title will be published by EMAP Metro, alongside its other male targeted magazines, Q, Mojo, Empire and Premiere.
At the PPA Magazines 94 Awards held on Tuesday night, What’s on TV was awarded the Consumer Magazine of The Year Award. Judges said, “This title has held its own against both newspaper listings and other well-established rival listings…its brilliant layout enables readers to get in and out of the magazine very easily.”Other awards were:Magazine… Continue reading What’s On TV Wins Consumer Magazine Of The Year Award
