An annual round-up for the national press is now available in the Press features list.The round-up covers ABC and NRS figures throughout 1998 for the separate national press sectors and their individual titles.Subscribers can access the Press database by selecting “Press” from the drop-down box at the top of this page.
Flextech saw an 18˝p rise in its share price at the close of trading yesterday, closing at 719p. This follows yesterday’s announcement that the cable programming company would be taking part in Microsoft’s WebTV interactive television trials (see Newsline).Portsmouth & Sunderland Newspapers, currently at the centre of a bidding war (see Portsmouth & Sunderland Newspapers… Continue reading Sharewatch
Only six months after launch (see DoubleClick To Sell Ad Space On UK’s Fastest-Growing ISP), Dixons’ free internet service provider, Freeserve, has taken second place in the UK’s home internet market. According to BMRB International’s Internet Monitor survey, Freeserve had a 13% share of the home access internet market at the beginning of this year,… Continue reading Dixons’ Freeserve Takes No. 2 Spot, According To BMRB Research
1998 brought a drop in both circulation and readership across the national press market. Total circulation dropped by 2.4% throughout last year, an actual fall of 677,824 sales. Currently the total circulation of all of the national press titles listed here is 27.28 million. The popular papers lost the greatest sales overall as a sector.… Continue reading National Press Market Round-Up – 1998
Flextech Interactive (FI) has announced that it will be participating in Microsoft’s WebTV interactive television trials. The six month trials take place in Telewest-served cable homes in London and Liverpool.The trials are intended to provide a testing ground on which advertisers can learn how consumers will relate to interactive services. Both Flextech and Telewest will… Continue reading Flextech Trials Interactive TV With Microsoft And Telewest
Following speculation that Pearson is considering disposing of a financial data division, as well as talk of a possible full listing on the US stock market for the company, shares rose by 68p to close at 1,365p yesterday.Cable operator and TV content producer, Flextech, dropped 26p after reports that the European Commission is investigating the… Continue reading Sharewatch
In the face of an economic slowdown, the commercial radio industry may find that ad expenditure is turned its way as advertisers move away from TV and toward lower cost media. This is one of the findings of the Radio Advertising Bureau’s Advertiser Research.The research reports that advertisers feel that television is becoming prohibitively expensive:… Continue reading Advertisers Feel TV Is Becoming Prohibitively Expensive, Finds RAB Research
Following the previous ABC audit, the food magazine market continues its downward spiral in circulation in the Jul-Dec 1998 figures. Despite 6-monthly improvements for BBC Good Food (4.6%), Family Circle (6.9%), Sainsbury’s – The Magazine (10.8%) and Somerfield Magazine (4.1%), year-on-year comparisons show the food magazine sector has yet to recover to its pre-1998 levels.… Continue reading Food Magazines’ Circulation Decline Continues
Talk Radio has recruited five new members to its sales team to handle its ‘rapidly expanding’ sales business. Paul Seberry, Cennydd Roberts and Claire Ellis join the station as account manager, account executive and sales assistant respectively.Last month Talk announced that its January sales were 250% higher than the same month the year before and,… Continue reading Talk Radio Expands Sales Team
Following the previous ABC audit, the food magazine market continues its downward spiral in circulation in the Jul-Dec 1998 figures. Despite 6-monthly improvements for BBC Good Food (4.6%), Family Circle (6.9%), Sainsbury’s – The Magazine (10.8%) and Somerfield Magazine (4.1%), year-on-year comparisons show the food magazine sector has yet to recover to its pre-1998 levels.The… Continue reading Food Magazines’ Circulation Decline Continues
