Well, it’s finally happened. After the long toil and labours of the script writers, the plane crash, the renaming of the show (and indeed the village they all live in), Emmerdale has finally triumphed and achieved a higher average audience this week than Eastenders. To be precise 11.81 million for Emmerdale, and only 11.55m for… Continue reading TV Viewing Summary W/E 10/05/98
The European Union has given British Interactive Broadcasting, the joint venture formed by BT, BSkyB, Midland Bank and Matsushita to provide digital TV interactive services, the all-clear to launch later this year.BiB was forced, however, to make concessions on a number of issues. The most important is that BiB must allow third parties access to… Continue reading EU Clears BIB For Launch
It has just emerged that JC Decaux’s bid to take over its rival outdoor firm More Group has been referred to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission.Nigel Griffiths, Competition and Consumer Affairs Minister, said that he would be taking the Office of Fair Trading’s advice and require the MMC to investigate the proposal more closely.The news… Continue reading MMC To Investigate Decaux Bid
The House of Commons Select Committee on Culture, Media and Sport today published a report which said that the BBC’s commercial and public service functions should be independently regulated whilst calling for a streamlining of content regulation. This would include the abolition of the Broadcasting Standards Commission.Following the release of The Multi-Media Revolution report, the… Continue reading House Of Commons Seeks New Regulation Rules
Carlton Communications today announced financial results for the six months to 31 March which show a rise in pre-tax profits (excluding digital TV) of 8% to £171.9 million. Including digital TV’s losses of £6.2m, pre-tax profits were up 4% year on year. Turnover increased 3% to £920.6m.Turnover in Carlton’s television business rose by £7m to… Continue reading Carlton Sees Profits Rise
Quality Market The total quality market saw an overall fall in circulation for November-April 1998 of 1.3% year on year to 5.742 million. The Independent again suffered badly, with a fall of 12% to 225,413 though the Observer was close behind in terms of losses with a drop of 9% to 417,009.Only the FT put… Continue reading National Newspaper Round-Up – April
The Racing Post has captured almost all of the Sporting Life ‘s sales, following the Life‘s temporary suspension of publication (see Sporting Life To Close), according to initial figures from the Mirror Group.A week after the Post was left as Britain’s solo racing paper, early circulation reports indicate that the “conversion rate” from Life to… Continue reading Racing Post Captures Sporting Life’s Sales, Mirror Claims
Publishers Myatt McFarlane have launched a new family title aimed at B, C1, C2 parents called Family Active.The national title went on sale on last week with an initial print run of 80,000 copies. It is priced £1.95 and is published monthly.Myatt McFarlane: 0161 928 3480
The recent success by the Periodical Publishers Association (PPA) in persuading the Independent Television Commission (ITC) to relax its regulations on masthead programming was described by a television producer yesterday as possibly being a Pyrrhic victory.Peter Bazalgette was speaking at the PPA’s Magazines ’98 conference at which the television and magazine publishing industry examined the… Continue reading Masthead Programming: Breakthrough Or Pyrrhic Victory?
In conjunction with its World Cup promotions (see The Times To Offer World Cup Supplements), The Times has reduced its weekday cover price to 30p. It was previously 35p.This offer is to run throughout the World Cup and the price may or may not be increased after the competition is finished. A spokesperson for News… Continue reading Times Reduced To 30p For World Cup
