Classic FM Magazine has added a top 50 album review section to its March issue. The reviews will cover early to modern music, baroque, romantic, opera and collections. This new format is intended to make it easy for classical music lovers of all tastes to select the right CD.The review section will be expanded further… Continue reading New Section For Classic FM Magazine
It was generally a bad six months for the golf magazines, with ‘Golf World’ the only publication to record an improved figure on the same period in 1995, up just 1.35%. The main loss was experienced by ‘Fore!’, down 8.33%.The changes leave ‘Golf World’ 12,140 ahead of it’s nearest rival ‘Golf Monthly’, as opposed to… Continue reading July – December 1996 ABC Figures – Golf Sector
Looks Magazine recorded the biggest overall drop in this sector, losing 23.73% of its circulation year-on-year. At the other end of the scale, Period Living saw the greatest increase; adding 31,147 to its circulation year-on-year.IPC, who publish the majority of titles in this sector, has seen a circulation fall in 7 out of 10 of… Continue reading Jul-Dec ’96 ABC Figures: Women’s Monthly Sector
Emap’s FHM has achieved an extraordinary rate of growth over the last six months, with ABC figures showing an increase of 217%. Its popularity has been growing steadily over the past couple of years, but today’s results will certainly help to re affirm FHM’s editorial policy. James Carter at Emap explained the titles rocketing success… Continue reading Jul-Dec ’96 ABC Figures: Men’s Monthly Sector
Overall in 1996 ITV revenue was up 4.9% year on year from £1.578bn to £1.656bn while C4 did better with a growth of 10% to nearly £489m. This puts the revenue ratio for 1996 between ITV and C4 at 77:23.Total combined revenue for the year came in at £2.145bn, which is a year on year… Continue reading TV Round-Up – 1996
Two new bi-monthly IT magazines, Compuship and Move-IT will launch in the Spring.London-based TLA Publishing is the team behind the titles.Compuship will launch in March and is to cover mobile satellite communications, information technology and electronics for shipping. Move-IT will be on the news-stands in April and will do the same for land-mobile and remote… Continue reading New IT Titles
The Telegraph group has submitted a complaint to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, ABC, over the 10p Monday edition of the Times .The Telegraph claim that ABC should not classify the cut-price edition of The Times as a sale as there is no financial gain for the paper from the Monday editions. The news-vendors who… Continue reading Telegraph In Dispute With Times
The Independent is moving its Media section from a Tuesday to a Monday.The paper is expanding its media section into a stand-alone tabloid section on 17 February 1997. The Guardian ‘s media section is also published on a Monday and it recently relaunched as a stand-alone tabloid *Supplement Review – Media Guardian. The new Independent… Continue reading Media Independent To Go Head To Head With Media Guardian
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
