Gruner and Jahr are creating a new home interest title called Your Home. It will compete with House Beautiful andIdeal Home. There is, as yet, no further information on the title.John Brown Contract Publishing has landed the contract to produce Debenhams’ in-store magazine. Debenhams Magazine will be published three times a year with an initial… Continue reading New Magazines
Channel 5’s Saturday night primetime slot will be filled with “Saturday Night Fever”, a celebrity karaoke gameshow, which will then be followed by a movie premiere and an uncut adult movie. The draft schedule, leaked to Broadcast, also includes US repeats such as The Incredible Hulk and Knightrider, with a movie at 9pm and a… Continue reading Karaoke Show Tops C5 Primetime Schedule
The ITC has decided that the merger between United News and Media plc and MAI plc, which brought into common ownership UN&M’s newspaper interests and MAI’s ITV companies, could not be expected to operate against the public interest.The two groups merged last year, *Media Merger Go Ahead, but the merger was not considered under cross-media… Continue reading ITC Rules On United News & Media Merger With MAI
A new upmarket monthly for 16-24 year-old women is being planned by Attic Futura and North South. The magazine, dubbed Spice, is due to launch on 7 April and has a target circulation of 230,000 for the launch issue. It will focus less on sex and more on humour, fashion, health and beauty.Billed as an… Continue reading New Attic Futura Title Planned
For the next three weeks the Mail On Sunday package will include a 32-page health and fitness magazine. The 21 day Energy Plan will be supported by a TV campaign.Meanwhile, Sunday Mirror, is rumoured to be considering a redesign following Piers Morgan’s revamp of the daily paper.Mirror Group: 0171 293 3000Mail on Sunday: 0171 938… Continue reading New Section For Mail On Sunday
The Express has appointed Justin Jameson as marketing director. Jameson is currently a senior associate with Spectrum, the strategic consultancy firm, he will move to The Express in March.The newly created role at The Express comes as the newspaper group prepares for a Spring marketing campaign designed to reverse its falling readership. Jameson will also… Continue reading Express Puts New Emphasis On Marketing
TDI Advertising has bought outright the Manchester-based bus advertising contractor Buspak, giving it complete control of the UK bus market.The buy-out, for an undisclosed sum, now takes TDI’s share of the outdoor market from around 11%, worth £400m, to 14%. Some industry sources suggest that the move may give TDI the power to increase rates… Continue reading TDI Gains Control Of Bus Ads
1996 was another year of steady growth for the number of homes that could receive Cable and Satellite. The ITC’s October analysis of the Cable industry showed that the number of homes passed has grown by 2 million over the last year from 6.18 million to 8.22 million. However the number of homes connected only… Continue reading Cable And Satellite Round-Up 1996
The arrival of the X-Files-type drama Dark Skies on Channel Four has helped the station to achieve its highest audience figure of the year so far, with the first episode attracting 5.10 million viewers. Overall however Channel Four audiences fell this week, most significantly Countdown not maintaining its normally relatively stable audience figures throughout the… Continue reading TV Viewing Summary W/E 19/01/97
A census by IPA shows a further recovery in agency employment. The number of people employed on 1 September 1996 is estimated to have been 12,800 at 220 member agencies, compared with 12,300 at 225 agencies the year before.The numbers employed still remain lower than the 15,400 in 1989.The staff increase has been mainly in… Continue reading Agency Staff Increases
