Motormart magazine, a joint venture between Southern Newspapers and Portsmouth & Sunderland Newspapers, launched this week with an initial print-run of 25,000.The weekly title, which aims to concentrate on indexed classified advertising, is distributed in Hampshire, Dorset, South Wiltshire and West Sussex with a cover price of 70p. Advertising is handled by Tessa Legg.Mono Page:… Continue reading Regional Motor Mag Launched
Inflation has fallen to 1.3% with the Retail Price Index for April standing at 148.6 (taking 1985 as base rate). Last month’s figure is an increase of just 0.9% on March.
The BBC has been criticised by the Broadcasting Standards Council for a number of its programmes which fell short of the acceptance barrier, in the eyes of the council.The final episode of Casualty shown recently (which attracted 17 million viewers) was excessively violent, according to the report. The highly successful One Foot in the Grave… Continue reading BBC Taken To Task By Council
Cut-backs in BBC programming budgets have been reflected all year in their consistently poor showing in BARB’s weekly top thirty programme rankings. The latest available rankings (w/e 9th May) tell the typical story with only two episodes of Eastenders making the top ten and a strong drama line up from ITV dominating with the likes… Continue reading BBC Struggling In Ratings Battle
Hampshire – based Southern Radio, has announced pre-tax profits of £263,000 for the six months to the end of March 1993 – 59% up on the last period. Turn- over increased from £3.17m to £4.01m, with earnings per share growing from 49p to 62p.Southern Radio broadcasts to Hampshire, Kent, Sussex and the Isle of Wight.
The Times Magazine editor, Nick Wapshott, has confirmed to MediaTel his involvement with the ‘Radio Greater London’ consortium, which will be applying for one of the London FM licences on June 8 (Newsline 20/5).Wapshott described the consortium’s bid as an attempt to “privatise GLR.” Their proposed format of “intelligent talk” combined with music, would be… Continue reading Wapshott Confirms GLR Involvement
19% of men watch television in a pub/ club each week on average (3.96 million), according to an out of home viewing report released by Sky this week. The most viewed channel is Sky Sports with 58% of men stating that their out of home viewing included this channel sometime in the past week. 54%… Continue reading Details Of Sky Ooh Survey
Bartle Bogle Hegarty has recently conducted a study to examine the public’s attitudes to the BBC, revealing that consumers oppose the introduction of ads on the TV service.Research groups were split into three age brackets, 18-25, 26-35 and 36-50 and concentrated on heavy TV viewers in the BC1/C2D brackets.Results from the survey show that although… Continue reading BBH Examines Public Attitudes To BBC
John Price is to become deputy editor of the Observer after the completion of the paper’s sale. Price, currently assistant editor and home editor for both the Independent and Independent on Sunday, will take over from Adrian Hamilton. Hamilton will remain at the Observer as leader page editor.No plans as to editorial changes for the… Continue reading New Deputy Editor For The Observer
According to leaked figures from ITV’s financial director Granada’s net annual revenue share may have been over- estimated by 0.06%, equating to £1m in money terms.The implications for contractors are complex in as much as contributions to, and funding from, the Network Centre are all based on percentage share of revenue; for example percentage cuts… Continue reading Granada – Nar Share Over Estimation
