The ITC Annual Report 1992, out today, gives the following revenue figures for ITV, C4, S4C and TV-am: 1991 1992 %Change ITV 1,344 1,411 5 C4 250 242 -3.2 ITV/C4 1,594 1,653 3.7 SC4 3.5 3 -14.3 TV-am 74 75 1.3 TOTAL 1,671.50 1,731 3.6 MediaTel’s combined ITV/C4 revenue for 1992, based on agency estimates,… Continue reading ITC Revenue Figure
Michael Heseltine, the Trade and Industry secretary, has given the go- ahead to the sale of The Observer to the Guardian and Manchester Evening News, hence avoiding a Monopolies & Mergers enquiry. Jonathan Fenby will take over as editor of the paper next week.
National Readership Surveys Ltd (NRS) has just released details of daily and weekly viewership of Teletext and Ceefax, giving top line data of January to March 1993. A summary of the net viewing is given below: All Adults 000’s % Unweighted Sample 9445 Estimated Pop. 15+ 45300 Net Ceefax BBC1&2 Used Yesterday 6725 15 Used… Continue reading Teletext & Ceefax Figures From NRS
The ITC Annual Report 1992, out today, gives the following revenue figures for ITV, C4, S4C and TV-am: 1991 1992 %Change ITV 1,344 1,411 5 C4 250 242 -3.2 ITV/C4 1,594 1,653 3.7 SC4 3.5 3 -14.3 TV-am 74 75 1.3 TOTAL 1,671.50 1,731 3.6 MediaTel’s combined ITV/C4 revenue for 1992, based on agency estimates,… Continue reading ITC Revenue Figure
Ian Hay Davison has been appointed non- executive chairman of Newspaper Publishing having been a non-executive director of the company since 1986.
Shares in the ITV television companies shot up yesterday following news that the Broadcasting Act is to be amended to allow the companies to bid for one another (Newsline 27/5). HTV shares increased by almost 10% to 50p (+4p) and Anglia rose 9 to 296p.Central is up 15 to 1888p and Carlton Television jumped by… Continue reading ITV Shares React To Activity
Broadcast Data Systems (BDS) is shortly to introduce Radio Tracking Studies in the UK, based on those currently used in the US. Alistair Whitmore, of BDS, explained the concept and its application at yesterday’s Radio Fights Back conference.The idea was first developed in 1986 to record airplay, it has since been extended to measure ads… Continue reading Radio Fights Back – Tracking Studies
The ITV Network and Panasonic have just announced the completion of a 14 month sponsorship deal, worth up to £4m, to back ITV’s coverage of the 1994 World Cup in the USA. The contract will include associated off-screen below-the line activity between now and the World Cup.Sponsorship will begin this weekend when England plays Poland… Continue reading ITV & Panasonic Announce World Cup Deal
Rajar director, Roger Gane, reviewed some of the issues concerned in the methodology of the new survey at yesterday’s Radio Fights Back conference. He began by emphasising that for the first time there is now an ‘agreed currency’ for the industry.While Rajar does have a number of characteristics in common with the old survey, Jicrar,… Continue reading Radio Fights Back – Rajar
C4 Chairman, Sir Michael Bishop, has accused ITV of blatantly underselling C4 airtime between 1989 and 1992, as it became clear that C4 would be selling its own space from 1993. He questions the difficulty ITV appeared to have selling C4 airtime, considering the fact the channel was achieving nearly 20% share of viewing on… Continue reading ITV’s C4 Sales Effort Criticised
