The Hong Kong stock market crisis last week hit Cable & Wireless hard as the telecommunications company has a substantial interest in the region. On Tuesday its price fell 16 to 517p, dropped 27p on Wednesday to reach 490p and then a further 17p on Thursday.The Mirror Group initially rose 5 to 219.5p on Tuesday… Continue reading Sharewatch W/E 24/10/97
The Cartoon Network has launched a Website. It can be found at http://www.cartoon-network.co.uk.
Revenue According to agency estimates total terrestrial TV revenue for September came in at £212.54 million. Of this ITV brought in £156.71m, up 10.5% year on year, and C4 £46.8m, up 8.8%: this puts the revenue ratio between the two at 77:23. There was a large month on month revenue increase at C5, where there… Continue reading TV Round-Up – September
The ITC has today launched a public consultation exercise which proposes to reinforce Channel 4’s commitment to innovation, increase its original production and programme commissions from outside London, reduce its repeats and create further investment in film production.The main point of the ITC plan is to increase originally produced programmes from 53% in 1996 to… Continue reading ITC Calls For More Original C4 Programmes
Cable company Flextech are expanding into the world of home shopping with the launch of their Screenshop service. Screenshop begins this month on a number Flextech’s cable services, and the company plans to extend Screenshop’s reach with a 24-hour digital service by the end of 1998.Screenshop is the European arm of HSN Direct which pioneered… Continue reading Flextech Plan Digital Home Shopping
A report unveiled at the 1997 PPA Magazine Subscriptions Day, entitled Subscription Marketing Practices, indicates the subscriptions market is vibrant and optimistic. Conducted by Wessenden Marketing, the research investigates the industry’s approach to the subscriptions market drawing on questionnaire responses from forty-seven companies.The results show that subscriptions are becoming more significant for a publisher’s circulation… Continue reading Vibrant Magazine Subscriptions Market
While there was an overall year on year drop of 1.7% in the number of people listening to radio, commercial radio suffered less than the BBC in Quarter 3. The BBC’s total weekly reach slipped 4.4% to 26.3 million while all commercial fell 0.6% to 27.6 million.The national commercial stations did not fare very well,… Continue reading Q3 RAJAR Summary
DoubleClick, the US Internet advertising sales house is opening a UK operation in November. DoubleClick UK aims to offer a service which will centralise media planning and buying whilst providing ‘truly’ local campaigns.Advertisers will be able to buy space from a catalogue of sites in the company’s new-media sales network which spans six countries. DoubleClick’s… Continue reading US Online Ad Sales House Opens UK Office
No, its not a magazine about happy Scousers!Made Up is IPC’s new venture into the teenage/young women’s market. With an initial print run of 150,000 the title is aimed at 16-24 year olds and provides pictorial evidence that with a little help from the ‘experts’ plus make-up and new clothes people really can look better,… Continue reading Made-Up First Issue Review
