Chic magazine is to be closed just months after it was relaunched by publishers Northern & Shell (see Chic To Relaunch After Two Years).The publishers claim that WH Smith is demanding trading margins which are too high to keep the magazine viable with its current circulation. Until the dispute is settled the magazine will be… Continue reading Chic To Close Straight After Relaunch
Capital Interactive, the new media arm of Capital Radio, has won the KPMG/NTL Award for technical excellence at this year’s Commercial Radio Awards.Douglas McCallum, head of Capital Interactive, says: “The award from the CRCA is testimony to the continuing creative excellence from a Capital Interactive team that has produced websites of the highest order.”The Capital… Continue reading Capital Interactive Wins Technical Excellence Award
Channel 5 has held discussions with the Independent Television Commission (ITC) to draw up a set of criteria that will be used to rent out its spare digital terrestrial frequency (see Channel 5 To Offer Surplus Digital Frequencies). It is understood that BSkyB would not be prevented from using this capacity as was mooted earlier… Continue reading Channel 5 Digital Capacity May Run Sky Sports
Latest figures from the Newspaper Society (NS) report that Britain’s regional and local press has enjoyed a rise in total advertising revenue of 8.5% to £2.237 billion between 1996 and 1997.“The AA figures tell a tremendous story for the regional press, which is outperforming the advertising market as a whole and growing at a faster… Continue reading Regional Press Advertising Shows Strong Growth
Following a public interest test, the Radio Authority (RA) has decided that the proposed takeover of London alternative station XFM by Capital Radio will be allowed to go ahead (see Capital’s Xfm Move Dependent On Watchdogs).The Authority has determined that the takeover would not be expected to operate against the public interest in terms of… Continue reading Capital Receives Go-Ahead On Xfm Takeover
As from tomorrow the offices of the National Readership Survey (NRS) have been relocated to:42 Drury Lane London WC2H 5RNTel: 0171 632 2915 Fax: 0171 632 2916The NRS website can be found at http://www.nrs.co.uk/ and is part of the Media Village (http://www.mediavillage/).
Quality Market Total broadsheet circulation for this period was down 1.6% to 5.7 million copies – a loss of 94,000 copies for January-June 1998. The Sunday Telegraph suffered the greatest loss in terms of copies, down by 51,568 (5.8%) to a circulation of 841,062. The Independent reports the greatest loss relative to its circulation: down… Continue reading National Newspaper Round-Up – June 1998
GWR Group, owner of Classic FM, has announced that it intends to acquire Cheltenham and Gloucester-based AM station, Classic Gold 774. The station is currently owned by Radio First.As GWR already runs two other stations in the same area, Severn Sound FM and Wyvern FM, the Radio Authority (RA) will conduct a public interest test… Continue reading GWR To Buy Classic Gold 774
Sales house Laser has announced the appointment of Michael Carter-Smith as head of its TV3 sales team (see Laser To Sell For New Irish Channel). TV3 is the new independent commercial television network set to launch in Ireland in September.Of Carter-Smith Craig Nyman, sales director, said: “His knowledge and experience of the Irish marketplace, and… Continue reading Laser Appoints TV3 Sales Head
Total national newspaper circulation was down by 3.1% year on year for the ABC period January-June 1998, from 27.8 million to 26.9 million. This represents a loss of 860,000 copies across the whole national newspaper market.Circulation for The Guardian is not included in these figures as the newspaper supplied ABC with data that was incorrect.… Continue reading National Newspaper ABC Summary – June 1998
