This week’s top programme lists showed that there is still no change at the top of the overall top thirty programme list and Channel 4’s top ten list. Monday’s edition of Coronation Street, with the continuing storyline regarding the Fiona Middleton love triangle between Steve, Jim and Alan (or should that be love square), attracted… Continue reading TV Viewing Summary – W/E 27/07/97
The main mover last week in the media industry was Pearson, which began the week on 692.5p and finished on 777.5p. This was as a result of the group’s better-than-expected interim results on Monday and chief executive Marjorie Scardino’s bullish statement that the company would double its value within five years.Telewest Communications benefited from confirmation… Continue reading Sharewatch W/E 08/08/97
Tuesday The Retail Prices Index for July will be announced.Thursday MAID and WPP Group announce interim results while Media Business Group releases final figures. It is expected that WPP will see a rise in profits from £68m to around £78m, though the strength of sterling could leave revenue static. Media Business is expected to see… Continue reading The Week Ahead
David Rydell, the third editor of Sunday Business, will be leaving the newspaper to join Beattie Media with the role of setting up a new office in London for the Scottish PR firm.At the moment the newspaper is in receivership and is looking for a buyer. No one was available for comment at Sunday Business.
The ITC today announced that it would be extending its review of the practice of bundling pay-TV channels.As part of this the issues of carriage guarantees, basic channel bundling, digital TV and its effect on the market and viewers will also be considered.Key points on which the ITC is requesting comments are: What constitutes a… Continue reading ITC Extends Bundling Review
Quality Amongst the daily broadsheets the Daily Telegraph remains out in front with a circulation of 1.093m for July 1997, up almost 4% year on year. Its sister paper, the Sunday Telegraph, showed one of the largest year on year increases in sales, which were up 23.7% to 856,598. Part of this growth appears to… Continue reading National Press Round-Up – July ABCs
EMAP announced today that it has acquired Mason Stewart Publishing and Bounty Services in Australia for a total of £5m. Both companies have had long relationships with EMAP as licensees of a number of titles including Smash Hits , Slimming and Mother & Baby .Managing director of the new arm will be Marcus Rich who… Continue reading EMAP Expands Down Under
Jonathan Young is to become editor-in-chief of IPC Magazines’ Field , Shooting Times and Sporting Gun .… IPC has promoted Marion Jones and Kate Burt to the positions of deputy editor and senior features writer on 19 magazine.IPC: 0171 261 6575
IPC Magazines is appointing Eileen Melville to the position of advertisement systems director across all three of the company’s publishing groups.David Gibbs left his position as research executive at BSkyB last week to take up a new role at Flextech.IPC: 0171 261 6575Flextech: 0171 299 5000
Commercial radio has continued it’s upward trend in it’s battle for listeners against the BBC. It’s share for the second quarter of 1997 shows that the majority of listeners chose commercial stations. The 50.2% slice of the market improved year-on-year from 49.3%. Meanwhile the BBC went from being marginally behind in 1996 with 48.6%, to… Continue reading Commercial Radio Success Continues
