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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.

Carlton is proposing to change the way it calculates its station cost per thousand figures, moving from the weighting of messages by ratecard to their weighting by spot length (ie. pro rata). This would mean that 10 second impacts would be calculated at a third of a 30 second impact, rather than the usual half.… Continue reading Carlton To Change Rate Policy?

.. Sue Gray of Channel 4 has been appointed head of research at Bartle Bogle Hegarty following the departure of Vanessa Morrison…. Sue Oriel is leaving her position as media director with FCO to join Mediastar, a subsidiary of Euro RSCG…. Commercial director with The Sun, Camilla Rhodes is rumoured to have been offered the… Continue reading Industry Snippets..

Digital Equipment Company is to sponsor the British Library for a sum of £1m to install computer systems, it has been announced. It is the library’s largest private sponsorship so far and Digital’s largest deal to date.

At yesterday afternoon’s Marketing Week seminar entitled “The Value of Quality Television” Phil Gullen, managing director of Carat Research, presented the topline findings of some new research into this area.Two studies were undertaken: the Carat Foretel Attention Study, which measured quality of viewing to over 3,000 programmes; and the Foretel Advertising Recall Study, which was… Continue reading Research The Value Of Quality TV – Seminar

At yesterday afternoon’s Marketing Week seminar entitled “The Value of Quality Television” Phil Gullen, managing director of Carat Research, presented the topline findings of some new research into this area.Two studies were undertaken: the Carat Foretel Attention Study, which measured quality of viewing to over 3,000 programmes; and the Foretel Advertising Recall Study, which was… Continue reading Research The Value Of Quality TV – Seminar

Publisher of Woman’s Own and Woman’s Weekly, IPC magazines is planning to run a ‘shopper’s survey’ during July and August to examine reader attitudes to advertising areas such as holidays and motoring.Each questionnaire will be inserted into 250,000 issues across 15 of the company’s titles, but it has yet to be decided which magazines will… Continue reading IPC Shopping Survey Aids Advertisers

Due to hit the airwaves on Friday, Virgin Radio has just finalised a £2m deal with Nescafe to sponsor its new Saturday morning show, hosted by Big Breakfast star Chris Evans. The deal is one of the largest ever negotiated on UK radio and will last for three years.The Big Red Mug Show is the… Continue reading Virgin Finalises £2m Deal With Nescafe

Having sponsored independent radio’s Video Review for three years, Panasonic has decided to withdraw from the £500,000 a year deal, feeling that radio sponsorship no longer fits into its plans. The Video Review claims to have weekly audiences of 6 million listeners.

Having sponsored independent radio’s Video Review for three years, Panasonic has decided to withdraw from the £500,000 a year deal, feeling that radio sponsorship no longer fits into its plans. The Video Review claims to have weekly audiences of 6 million listeners.