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
Total terrestrial TV revenue for December reached £163.55 million. Of this, ITV brought in £126.55m and Channel 4 reached £37m.Impacts followed last November’s pattern exactly with Housewives/Children showing the biggest drop year-on-year at -11.7%, while Housewives had the smallest fall at -4.4%. CPTs for December were about 10 percentage points less than for November across… Continue reading TV Round-Up – December
The deadline for applications to operate digital terrestrial television multiplexes is noon on Friday 31 January 1997.Once the ITC has received the applications, the Commission will announce the names of the applicants, and the licences for which they have bid by 4pm the same day. This information will be available on Newsline as soon as… Continue reading Deadline For Digital Multiplex Applications
The ITC has published its second report detailing television audience share figures. The Broadcasting Act 1996 prohibits any commercial licences having a share which exceeds 15% of the total TV audience. While most of the individual channels show very little change compared to the last set of figures for September 1996 *ITC Publishes TV Audience… Continue reading ITC Produces Second Audience Report
Kieran Kelly, formerly ad manager at The Sunday Express Magazine, has been taken on by OK!. Kelly will take up the post of agency sales manager at the title. While Stan Myerson the group ad director has been promoted to the board.Manchester-based, Broughton Jacques has come to an arrangement with TCS Media. Following the departure… Continue reading Industry Changes
http://www.condenast.co.uk/cnp5686291792/main.htmlWorld of Interiors is the latest Conde Nast publication to go on-line. Like most of its sister sites, this interior designer’s delight has a section that is updated daily. This means that you feel like you are doing more than standing in your local news-agents browsing through the pages of the magazine.The site is packed… Continue reading Web Site Of The Week – The World Of Interiors
The Nintendo 64 gaming console arrives in the UK in March. This has created a wave of new Nintendo related magazines.Rapide Publishing is adding Total 64 to its range of specialist titles. Total 64 goes on sale on 28 February with a cover price of £3.95. It is promising to be a mix of news,… Continue reading Nintendo Publications Multiply
Last night’s MRG Evening Meeting discussed the latest survey which attempted to provide accurate and trusted data for the cable television industry.The research being presented was the CATV II survey for the Cable Research Group which claimed to provide detailed profile data, accurately measured viewing, a database for intensive analysis and ultimately a common trading… Continue reading MRG Evening Meeting – CATV II Research Findings
The AGM of Capital Radio plc took place in London today.The chairman of Capital, Ian Irvine reported: “Our radio revenues continue to grow ahead of the radio market as a whole, and profits from the first quarter have grown in line with budget. For the year to September 1996 the radio industry took a record… Continue reading A Capital Year For Capital
