Nora Batty was voted the least worrying dinner date for TV viewers in a recent survey commissioned by Radio Times looking into TV viewing habits and general dependency. 819 adults were questioned in the study with 64% of those saying they would not give up their TV for life even if offered £10,000. 33% refused… Continue reading TV Dependence
Survey By Radio Times
Morgan-Grampian title, Financial Pulse has undergone a radical redesign in an attempt to totally change its image. The magazine hopes to attract a wider readership, concentrating on business readers.
The sum offered by Capital Radio to take over the Midlands Group has been revealed as £17.7m. The takeover is Capital’s first wholly owned regional station although it has shares in other radio companies throughout the UK (Newsline 22/1).
Inside Hotels, published by Blakebeck Magazines will be available eight times a year from next month having been bi-monthly up until now. The trade title, with a circulation of 17,500 will publish extra issues in March and September.
Bath-based Future Publishing has had to close two of its consumer titles because of a recent fall in circulation. Quarterly magazine Today’s Vegetarian and monthly Photo Plus will both release their final issues this week having fought against closure since the middle of last year.Future is claiming that Photo Plus was not strong enough to… Continue reading No Future For Today’s Vegetarian
The sum offered by Capital Radio to take over the Midlands Group has been revealed as £17.7m. The takeover is Capital’s first wholly owned regional station although it has shares in other radio companies throughout the UK (Newsline 22/1).
Inside Hotels, published by Blakebeck Magazines will be available eight times a year from next month having been bi-monthly up until now. The trade title, with a circulation of 17,500 will publish extra issues in March and September.
Virgin Radio, which launches at the end of April with an adult rock music format, is offering advertisers packages based on guaranteed ratings levels.The station’s basic 30″ slot rates are predictably lower than those of Classic FM. A slot on Virgin during the breakfast period will cost £650, compared to £800 on Classic.Virgin Radio RatecardSpot… Continue reading Virgin Radio Ratecard
Editor of The Sun, Kelvin MacKenzie defended the Press Complaints Commission yesterday, in a hearing with the national heritage committee when he said that he believed it was working ‘reasonably well’ and could see no reason to replace it with an alternative.In his 90-minute appearance with the committee, MacKenzie said he believed MPs are ‘hostile… Continue reading MacKenzie Defends Tabloid Truths
The Advertising Association (AA) is the latest to criticise the Government’s Smee report on the direct effect of tobacco advertising on numbers of smokers. The Association is accusing the Government of ignoring extensive literature relating to factors which cause people to start and to continue to smoke.It also states that the basic question of how… Continue reading Ad Association On Smee Report
