The music sector of the magazine market reflected the eroding sales of popular music in general. Even the ‘teenybopper’ magazines saw their recent successes at the expense of the more ‘serious’ music titles reversed quite spectacularly as both Smash Hits and Top Of The Pops recorded sizeable year-on-year losses. The more general, lifestyle orientated Sky… Continue reading 1998 – A Bad Year For Music
On the whole, the changes across the women’s weekly magazines sector during Jul-Dec’98 were mostly undramatic. The women’s weekly magazine market is the largest sector in the industry in terms of sales, and currently accounts for over 8.4 million net sales (see Newsline). The total circulation of the titles listed here increased by a very… Continue reading Thumbs Up For OK Magazine!
The new free internet service provider (ISP) launched last week by Tesco (see Tesco Introduces Free Internet Access) will have content provided by Excite as the result of a deal announced this morning. Excite is to develop specially formatted channel content and internet search engines for the service which is being offered to Tesco’s ten… Continue reading Tesco’s Free ISP Signs Content Deal With Excite
The latest July-December circulation figures for film/cinema magazines sees EMAP’s market leader, Empire, record a slight loss in year on year figures, dropping 3.1%. The magazine that is coming on leaps and bounds is Future Publishing’s Total Film, which rises by 13,570 or 25.7%.In the television listings sector the best performance comes from the freely-delivered… Continue reading Empire Slips While Total Film Continues To Grow
MTV has announced the anticipated details of its three new digital television channels (see Newsline). The three channels will be called MTV Extra, MTV Base and VH1 Classic, and are initially expected to launch on Sky Digital by the summer. Distribution for the new channels will then roll out via analogue and digital cable networks… Continue reading MTV Announces Three New Digital Channels
The Bartle Bogle Hegarty advertising campaign for EMAP’s new weekly entertainment title, Heat, has resulted in a number of complaints to the ITC. The Commission had by yesterday received just under 200 complaints in reference to the TV commercial, currently being aired (see Newsline).The ad features people in various situations (in the bath, in a… Continue reading Complainants Get Hot Under The Collar Over Heat Ad
The Independent Television Commission (ITC) is to advise the Monopolies & Mergers Commission (MMC) to block the takeover of Manchester United Football Club by BSkyB (see MMC Outlines Issues Of Concern Over BSkyB Bid). In an announcement to be made later this morning the TV watchdog will outline why it believes the Sky deal, and… Continue reading ITC Calls For Block On BSkyB/Man Utd Deal
FHM‘s towering domination of the men’s lifestyle magazines market continues with this round of results. However, whilst year on year figures show the title going from strength to strength (up by 16.7%), a six month comparison paints a picture slightly less rosy. Period on period EMAP Metro’s FHM sales were down by almost 24,000 copies,… Continue reading FHM Sales Slip During 1998
The last six months of 1998 have thrown up a mixed batch of circulation figures for women’s monthly magazines. Year on year, the rises and the falls of the sector are fairly 50/50. Marie-Claire achieved the largest growth in sales year on year.Emap’s Red and Wagadon’s Frank, both relative newcomers to this market, did not… Continue reading Prima Leads The Way For Women’s Monthlies
Osprey Communications and MBS Media have created a joint venture called Halo, a stand-alone media shop. Halo will handle £17 million of Osprey business at launch. The 50:50 deal was brokered by the AAR Group. The radio licence for central Scotland has been awarded by the Radio Authority to Beat FM. Capital Radio’s Fun format… Continue reading Newsline Brief
