Grampian TV has announced pre-tax profits of £3.21m for the year ended February 1993, compared with £3.18m in the previous year. Earnings per share rose to 14.75p (14.23p) with the final dividends standing at 6.10p. This is the fifth successive year that Grampian has raised its profits.
The ITV revenue figure for the month of March has come in at £139,870,000, representing an increase of 11.0% on the same period last year. The figure also shows an increase on February of 12.9%, breaking the downward spiral of recent months. Revenue for ITV only is up 10.4% on last month to £114,250,000. Channel… Continue reading TV Round-Up – March
The ITV dance music show, Beats Per Minute, broadcast at 2.30am in most regions, is to be sponsored by Bulmers dry white cider brand Max. The deal starts on Sunday, 2 May and runs for a year.
IPC’s latest gardening release, Your Garden, is claiming first issue sales of 125,000, well above pre-launch targets. The figure is based on the publishing company’s own retail monitoring, along with independent research by CPM.Your Garden: 071 261 6649
12.17pmRichard Branson officially launched Virgin 1215 minutes ago in Manchester saying that it was the radio station he always wanted to hear and hoped it would be the one listeners wanted also.The first record to be played on the Richard Skinner show was “Born to be Wild”, specially recorded for Virgin by INXS.The second was… Continue reading Virgin Radio Goes On The Air
The ITV dance music show, Beats Per Minute, broadcast at 2.30am in most regions, is to be sponsored by Bulmers dry white cider brand Max. The deal starts on Sunday, 2 May and runs for a year.
Meridian has issued a promise to advertisers that it will remove all centre break promotions and place them at the end of end breaks; ‘Coming Next’ promos will move from 5 to 10 seconds.
Red Hot Television (formerly Red Hot Dutch) has failed to change a court decision to ban the sale of decoders needed to access the station. The ban will begin on Saturday while the issue is referred to the European Court of Justice.
Rumours have re-emerged about a merger between Granada TV’s sales arm and Media and Airtime Sales. A report in this week’s issue of Campaign suggests that the two companies will finally merge in August with managing director of MAS, Craig Pearman, heading the company.
ITN’s news contract with Channel 4 has been extended to the end of 1996. The deal is worth £15.5m a year to the news organisation.
