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 Broadcasters Audience Research Board has chosen a research method for measuring Channel 5 audience figures. However, ITV is not happy with the method being proposed. The separate ITV sales houses are worried that it will fail to provide an accurate reflection of viewing in each area and each type of audience, for example 16-34… Continue reading ITV Express Concern To BARB
TMD Carat has confirmed that it is to merge with YMG Carat after parent company Carat UK decided that the two operations would perform better as a single outfit.YMG’s billings will add around £35 million to TMD’s £440 million, though there is concern that there will be some conflict between clients. Associated Newspapers’ Evening Standard,… Continue reading Carat Media Outfits Merge
Two agencies dominated this year’s Regional Press Advertising Awards ceremony; CIA Medianetwork and Duckworth Finn Grubb Water were the judges’ favourites. The two agencies picked up three gold awards for their joint-work on Daewoo. The car company’s advertising campaign took awards for Campaign of the Year, Best Use of the Regional Press by a new… Continue reading The Regional Press Advertising Awards
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
