The Board of the Observer has given its backing to the Guardian and Manchester Evening News’s offer to buy the paper. Following a two-hour meeting at the Observer’s headquarters in Battersea directors confirmed the deal, which is believed to value the Sunday newspaper at around £27m. If everything goes according to plan the Guardian will… Continue reading Observer Sale Backed By Board
Marie Claire emerged as top glossy in the Periodical Publishers Association magazine awards held at Grosvenor House last night.The magazine won the top award for consumer magazines for the second time in three years. Runner up was Company magazine published by National Magazines.Specialist title of the year went to Today’s Golfer, editor of the year… Continue reading PPA Magazine Award Winners
Speaking at the PPA Magazines ’93 conference yesterday Clive Foskett of the Builder Group suggested that British industry would be a great deal less informed and would be stripped of one of the most easily available and cost effective means of communication without the existence of business magazines.Commenting on recent research entitled ‘The Value Of… Continue reading The Value Of The Business Press
Latest trend data released by Irish research companies JNLR/MRBI shows that: Listenership to local radio stands at 50% compared to RTE Radio 1 at 44% and 2FM (Also RTE) at 27% On a regional basis, listenership to local radio in the Connaught/Ulster region has increased by 3 percentage points to 51% In Dublin, FM 104… Continue reading Irish Radio Listening
Publisher of the Financial Times, the Pearson Group, is interested in buying a stake in Hong Kong-based station, Star TV, having just taken over London company, Thames Television.
.. Observer Publications has relaunched Seahorse, an ocean yacht racing monthly…. Haymarket title, Litho Week, is believed to be changing its name to Print Week as of May 11, with increased pagination and better quality colour…. Plays & Players and Improving Your Home, once published by liquidised Pickwick Publishing, are re-emerging in the hands of… Continue reading Magazine Snippets..
The Periodical Publishers Association (PPA) is to introduce the first generic advertising campaign for more than ten years to promote magazines, it has been revealed. Details of the campaign, which will run in Marketing, Campaign, Media Week and Marketing Week throughout the year, are to be announced later today at the ‘Magazines ’93’ conference.Chief executive… Continue reading PPA To Launch Generic Campaign
Mirror Group Newspapers is to move out of its Holborn Circus headquarters after the owners rejected a bid by the newspaper group to buy it. Three alternatives are being considered including Canary Wharf and the Ark in Hammersmith.
Figures on new installations of satellite TV dishes compiled by Continental Research will be released on a quarterly basis in future instead of the previous monthly issues. The research company has stated that “growth in the market is now quite small”, averaging at fewer than 50,000 sales and rentals a month.Continental Research: 071 490 5944
A report entitled “The Value of The Business Press” was examined this morning by three speakers at the Periodical Publishers Association Conference – Magazines ’93 – indicating the crucial role played by business and professional magazines in all stages of the buying process. The report, put together by Clive Foskett of The Builder Group and… Continue reading Magazines ’93 – PPA Conference
