The overall outlook for the music magazine sector is positive with only five titles showing a decrease in circulation. Amongst the losers IPC’s Melody Maker fared worst, with a 19.82% (11591 copies)loss on the same period last year. Another IPC title Vox suffered the second greatest decline, with a loss of 15.47% or 14623 copies… Continue reading July To December ABC’s – Music Sector
BAD PERFORMANCE IN SECOND HALF OF 1996The second half of 1996 proved a poor one for the football magazines. In particular ’90 Minutes’ and ‘Soccerstars’ returned significant minuses, both down over 30%. Title Jul 95 – Dec 95 Jul 96 – Dec 96 Actual Change % Change 90 Minutes 68,961 43,005 -25,956 -37.64 Four Four… Continue reading July – December 1996 ABC Figures – Football Sector
The UK’s largest TV air-time sales house, TSMS, is launching a new media sales and marketing house aimed at the interactive market. The new division, TSMS Interactive or TSMSi, is hoping to help advertisers promote their interactive media. TSMSi will be concerned with the Internet, CD-Roms, interactive TV, company Intranets and kiosks. The new division… Continue reading TSMS Goes Interactive
The television sector was again the focus of market attention due to its plans, or lack of, for terrestrial digital TV.At the start of the week those broadcasters not involved in the consortiums again experienced large price drops: Scottish Television fell 81.5p to 546p, Yorkshire-Tyne Tees dropped 80p to 1,102.5p, HTV lost 30p and Ulster… Continue reading Sharewatch W/E 07/02/97
The latest Rajar figures reveal that the BBC has extended its lead over commercial radio to 1.3%. The BBC obtained 49.6% of total audience share, compared with commercial radio’s 48.3%. BBC’s radio share is up more than 2% year-on-year.Radio 1’s reach was down to 10.7 million from 11.2 million in the previous quarter while Radio… Continue reading Q4 Rajar Figures – Summary
David Jason makes a welcome return to ITV this week with the new series of A Touch Of Frost soaring straight into the top ten with an audience of 16.75 million. ITV drama is continuing to grow in standing, with Frost merely following up the progress which London’s Burning made in its last series. The… Continue reading TV Viewing Summary W/E 09/02/97
Emap Elan is set to produce a male version of Elle which will be included as a supplement in the magazine this April. It will have a lifestyle content targeted at men aged 20-30 and it is believed that if successful it will be launched as a stand-alone title, probably called Elle Men.…Emap Elan is… Continue reading Emap Elan To Experiment With New Titles
Television subscriptions will become a more important source of income to the UK’s television industry than advertising by the year 2000. This is the conclusion of a report from Datamonitor.The report, IT in UK Media 1996-2001: Moving Towards Holistic Systems, estimates that subscription revenue, including pay-TV and video-on-demand, will increase in the television industry by… Continue reading Pay TV Set For Rapid Growth
Media Vantage, the Leeds-based agency that launched last year, has restructured in order to strengthen its trading base.Mark Midmore has been promoted to deputy media director; he will combine this new role with his previous position as head of broadcast. Michele Ellaby will oversee all non-broadcast business and share responsibility for business development with Mandy… Continue reading Media Vantage Restructures
Features on Newsline this week will include, a round-up of the national press January ABCs and a television round-up for 1996. The July to December consumer magazine ABCs are released on Friday and will be accompanied by Newsline items.The Daily Mail and General Trust’s AGM is being held on Wednesday at the Kensington Close Hotel… Continue reading The Week Ahead
