Features appearing on Newsline this week include a national newspaper round-up for 1996 and a round-up of the NRS July to December 1996 figures, which is available on Newsline now NRS Round-Up July-December 1996.Tuesday night sees the Media Research Group’s meeting on the latest Cable Television Research. There will be a full report on the… Continue reading Week Ahead
The Radio Authority has awarded three new small-scale Independent Local Radio licences on the FM waveband for the East Kent area. The winning stations are:CTFM (CTFM LTD, Richard Johnson, 01534 888 103): This station will be broadcasting news and community information and a blend of popular music for the district of Canterbury.T.L.R. Thanet Local Radio… Continue reading Three New Radio Stations For Kent
Sessions (Closed) is the new, monthly magazine from Rapide Publishing. It went on sale at £3.95. Each issue carries a cover mounted CD and promises to be the total music experience. It aims to introduce new bands to the public, giving people the chance to make up their own minds about new music rather than… Continue reading Rapide Publishing Launches Sessions
A great deal of attention was on BSkyB last week which at first pulled the satellite broadcaster out of the low it had been suffering in November and December.On Monday BSkyB rose 8.5 to 567p as a result of a Kleinwort Benson recommendation and a shortage of stock on the Tuesday pushed it further to… Continue reading Sharewatch – W/E 24/1/97
Revenue Total terrestrial TV revenue for December reached £163.55 million, an increase of 4.88% year-on-year. Of this, ITV brought in £126.55m, up 6.15% year-on-year, and Channel 4 reached £37m, up slightly by 0.76%. This brings the revenue ratio between ITV and Channel 4 to 77:23. Among the ITV companies there was very little change year-on-year.… Continue reading TV Round-Up – December
Knowledge TV , the US satellite channel which provides educational and information programming, is set to launch in the UK and the rest of Europe on 7 February.The channel’s programming will fall into four categories: business, careers and finance; health and well-being; global culture and language; and computers and technology. Its hours of broadcast in… Continue reading New Channel Set For Launch
A row is threatening to erupt over the latest batch of July-December NRS figures for the women’s weekly sector, with some magazine companies querying the Survey’s research methods.Of particular concern is the quality of the research for young upper-class women in the weekly sector since most of the titles have shown a drop in the… Continue reading Row Threatening Over NRS Figures
RAJAR has named its new executive director as Peter Jenkins. He will join at the beginning of March, replacing Roger Gane who is leaving at the end of February to join the IPSOS group. Mr Jenkins was previously a self-employed consultant and has many years market and media research experience.RAJAR has also said that it… Continue reading New RAJAR Executive Director Named
It is rumoured that the ITV Network Centre is gearing up for a major restructuring programme which would see the appointment of a chief executive and a change to a limited company.The plan is aimed at creating more cohesion and unity among the ITV companies, something which the companies themselves and the ITC are said… Continue reading ITV Set For Restructure
The women’s weekly Enjoy! has had a facelift. The title, which launched last September, has been overhauled by TV Quick editor, Lori Miles. The launch editor, Margaret Nicholls left late last year.Enjoy!, a Bauer magazine, is now focusing at 25-30 year olds. It was originally targeted at the wider 18 to 34 age range. *… Continue reading Enjoy! The Change
