Bartle Bogle Hegarty was presented with the ITV Award for Best Commercial of The Year last night at the Golden Arrows Awards, for its Levi Strauss advertisement “The Swimmer”.Other agencies awarded include BMP for the Barclaycard campaign starring Rowan Atkinson, GGT for Red Rock Cider and Young & Rubicam’s Fosters advertisements.
Backers of Meridian Television, the MAI Group, have revealed that the new licence holder is surpassing original advertising revenue forecasts, as well as having saved £20m on launch costs following deals with TVS Entertainment. MAI has recorded an interim profit of £34m but emphasises that it is too early to predict what difference Meridian’s performance… Continue reading Meridian – So Far So Good
QualitiesThe 6-monthly ABCs for September-February’93 show mixed fortunes for the quality national newspapers. As with last month’s figures the Sundays fared better than the dailies, with all but the Observer increasing sales year-on- year.The Independent on Sunday’s circulation rose by 7.9% to 407,771. However, it is still firmly rooted at the bottom of the quality… Continue reading National Press Round-Up – February
Saturday saw The Times replace its Review section with The Times Magazine, described by the paper itself as having a “strikingly original design and format.”Readers expecting a glossy supplement similar in style to the Sunday Times Magazine would have been disappointed. Like the review section it has replaced it is stapled newsprint, slightly smaller than… Continue reading Times Magazine Launch
Abbott Mead Vickers has just released details of its full year profits to 31 December 1992, with the pre-tax result falling from last year’s £5.02m to £4.72m. Turnover rose to £167.8m and earnings per share fell to 18.71p from 22.09p. Final dividends stood at 6.3p leaving the figure for the year at 9.3p.
Managing director of Tyne Tees Television, Ian Ritchie is to leave the company this week following allegations that Yorkshire TV is considering closing down all Tyne Tees operations. Ritchie will be replaced by John Calvert who is currently group director of personnel with the company.
..Tindle Newspapers announces the buyout of the Recorder Group of free newspapers….. Keith Barwell’s Herald & Post Group buys two more TFN titles, the Bedford and the Milton Keynes Herald & Post….. The Rugby & Leamington Evening Telegraphs to reveal revamped editions including four extra pages of news….. Chief executive of the newspapers division of… Continue reading Regional Snippets..
..Tindle Newspapers announces the buyout of the Recorder Group of free newspapers….. Keith Barwell’s Herald & Post Group buys two more TFN titles, the Bedford and the Milton Keynes Herald & Post….. The Rugby & Leamington Evening Telegraphs to reveal revamped editions including four extra pages of news….. Chief executive of the newspapers division of… Continue reading Regional Snippets..
Saturday saw The Times replace its Review section with The Times Magazine, described by the paper itself as having a “strikingly original design and format.”Readers expecting a glossy supplement similar in style to the Sunday Times Magazine would have been disappointed. Like the review section it has replaced it is stapled newsprint, slightly smaller than… Continue reading Times Magazine Launch
Following Friday’s announcement that Eldorado will cease in July, head of BBC1, Alan Yentob is considering replacements including the possibility of turning Casualty into a twice-weekly soap. The BBC, meanwhile, is redesigning its television news bulletins in an attempt to compete with cable and satellite rivals.
