Johnston Press increased their interim pre-tax profits by 24% from £4.85m to £6.02m, in the six months to June.The Edinburgh based publishing group attributed the rise to the West Sussex County Times achieving a significant profits increase, aided by the Worthing Guardian, which was acquired at the end of 1992.
21st Century Publishing is to launch the monthly magazine Satellite and Video Today on September 15. The title used to be a suppplement of Satellite TV Europe.The magazine will target all home entertainment and technology enthusiasts. It will have a cover price of £1.95 and an initial print run of 100,000.21st Century PublishingNicholas Morse 071… Continue reading Satellite And Video Launch
Anna Home, Head of BBC Television Children’s Programmes, today announced the details of children’s programmes for the next year. The £59m package places emphasis on quality programmes.There is a new Sunday teatime drama called Smokescreen, starring Anita Dobson, Paula Wilcox and Joan Sims. There is also a new series of The Borrowers, starring Daniel Newman.Live… Continue reading BBC CHILDREN’S SCHEDULE
The Media Business Group has beaten Zenith Media to the £23m press buying business for the Book Club Associates (BCA) book and music club account. Zenith has retained the £450,000 BCA broadcast buying.Watson Ward Albert Varndell has held the account for the past five years. Ken Mansfield, who resigned as media director at WWAV earlier… Continue reading Media Business Group Wins BCA
The Financial Times is to launch a colour magazine supplement on September 20th, about the Whitbread Round the World Yacht Race.It is the first time for more than 20 years that the FT has brought out a colour magazine. It will be the first in a series of non-business titles planned by the paper, covering… Continue reading Financial Times Colour Supplement
Ever Ready is to end its sponsorship of the Derby next season.Epsom racecourse, home of the Derby, is likely to be sold, despite the withdrawal of sponsorship. However, if the sale goes ahead, potential sponsors who will be asked to contribute in excess of £1m annually, are unlikely to sign a deal until a purchaser… Continue reading Derby To Lose Sponsors
Grampian TV is joining with Border TV in a bid for the Central Scotland regional radio licence. (Newsline 1/9).The two stations are bidding jointly as Central Scotland Radio, under the chairmanship of Sir David Steel. They propose to run a 24-hour talk and music service aimed at adults. Grampian holds 55% and Border 35%, the… Continue reading Grampian TV Bids For Radio
RAJAR has joined forces with Acorn to extend RAJAR analysis capacity.All electronic subscribers to RAJAR will now have access to CACI’s Acorn geodemographic classification. This enables advertisers to target their radio advertising by matching their customer profile to the listener profile of a radio station.The Acorn classification gives a more detailed analysis of different consumer… Continue reading RAJAR Joins Forces With Acorn
A survey published by Datamonitor, Direct Marketing in the UK 1993, shows that over the next five years there is expected to be a big increase in the use of telemarketing.Telemarketing was cited as the major growth area by both food and drink and financial services executives. According to the survey, direct mail expenditure will… Continue reading Direct Marketing Survey
Today sees the launch of the Sky Multi-Channels package, and with it the launch of three new channels: UK Living The Family Channel and Nickelodeon.Any viewer wishing to see these new channels will need a decoder from Sky and will have to pay £6.99 per month for a package of these and existing channels which… Continue reading New Channels Launch Today
