ITV has confessed that unless it moves the News At Ten programme from its current slot to an earlier time, it will not meet the audience targets set by chief executive, Richard Eyre, at the beginning of the year (see ITV Publishes Audience Targets For Next Three Years).Eyre told a Royal Television Society dinner yesterday… Continue reading ITV Confesses 40% Viewing Share Promise Is Impossible Unless News At Ten Goes
Agency estimates for August 1998 put total terrestrial TV (including GMTV) ad revenue at £166.98 million. Year on year, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 show increases in revenue and GMTV continues to lose advertising income.ITV’s total revenue was up by 12.9%, C4’s rose by 11.2% and C5’s revenue was up by 36.0% year on… Continue reading TV Revenue – August 1998
New Publisher, Cabal Communications, has unveiled the details of its home interest launch, The Real Homes Magazine. The title will launch on 15 October alongside the male lifestyle mag, front (see Cabal Front Up With A New Title), and will be edited by ex-Living etc editor, Sarah Bravo.It will target ABC1 (C2) women, aged between… Continue reading Cabal Reveals Real Homes Details
Fast-expanding regional publisher Southern Newspapers posted a big leap in profits as it unveiled plans to change its name and move to the main stock market.The company is planning to change its name to News Communications & Media, which in turn, will be shortened to NewsCom. This change has to be approved by shareholders at… Continue reading Southern Gets New Name For New Era
Agency estimates for August 1998 put total terrestrial TV (including GMTV) ad revenue at £166.98 million. Year on year, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 show increases in revenue and GMTV continues to lose advertising income.ITV’s total revenue was up by 12.9% to £118.3 million, C4’s rose by 11.2% to £35.0 million and C5’s revenue… Continue reading TV Revenue – August 1998
British Interactive Broadcasting (the joint venture formed by BT, BSkyB, Midland Bank and Matsushita to provide digital TV interactive services) has announced some reorganisation of its management team amid confusion as to whether it is to supply access to the internet for television viewers.The key appointments are as follows… Peter Hopper joins as commercial director,… Continue reading Reorganisation At BiB
Only a third of the population would be annoyed if the News At Ten moved to an early evening slot, but over half of the general public feel that Manchester United should not be sold to BSkyB. These are the findings of two new surveys from CIA Medialab.ITV’s contentious plans to move the evening news… Continue reading News At Ten Can Go, But Man Utd Should Not Sell To BSkyB, Find Surveys
The Independent Television Commission (ITC) has announced that the BBC television channels which are distributed across pay-TV networks will be exempt from channel bundling restrictions.In June the Commission decided to discontinue minimum carriage requirements (MCRs) which stated that pay-TV operators must offer a minimum number of available channels (usually 80-100%). This meant that smaller channels,… Continue reading BBC Channel Bundling Exemption
Ian Helsby has rejoined Quadrant, the advertising and marketing group, after leaving Universal McCann, and has taken over from David Moss as managing director. David Moss will continue in a supporting role as non-executive director.Quadrant: 01925 411 217
Digital operators and broadcasters will be permitted to build TV sets that have the software needed to receive their services embedded into the set. This will allow broadcasters to market and sell hardware which is specifically designed to receive their digital services.This ruling is announced by the Independent Television Commission (ITC) this morning and follows… Continue reading Digital Broadcasters Allowed To Build Proprietary TV Sets
