The Sunday Telegraph is to add a seventh section to its Sunday package. The planned addition will be a glossy lifestyle health and fitness magazine. The section, which has not yet been named, will go to press in April.The aim is to attract a younger and bigger audience, rather than extra advertising, to the Sunday… Continue reading Sunday Telegraph Grows
Paramount Channel , which launched in 1995, is changing its name to The Paramount Comedy Channel from 3 February.The channel will feature only comedy programmes. 80% of the scheduled programmes are new to the channel; two thirds of these shows are Paramount produced.Paramount has produced a series of shows, for the weekday 11pm slot, featuring… Continue reading All Change At Paramount
The Radio Authority has vetoed the proposed acquisition of GWR’s Leicester Sound by DMG Radio, a subsidiary of Daily Mail and General Trust plc *RA Carries Out Public Interest Tests. If the sale were to proceed Leicester Sound would lose its licence. The Radio Authority ruled that in these circumstances Leicester Sound would be operating… Continue reading Daily Mail Fails In Its Bid To Take To The Air Waves
1996 was the year in which struggling newspapers continued to lose sales and readership and successful titles went from strength to strength. It also saw the launch of two national newspapers, the Sunday Business and the Planet On Sunday.Despite revamps, promotions, price cuts and new sections being employed by most titles, circulation trends remained similar… Continue reading National Press Round-Up 1996
NYNEX CableComms and Telewest Communications have joined forces to trial direct-response television advertising in the Granada region.Grey Integrated is coordinating the campaign; it will focus on cable telephone and lead with an offer of 1,500 minutes of free local weekend calls.The test will run for three weeks from 20 January. Respondents will be handled by… Continue reading Joint TV Campaign For Cable Companies
Radio group GWR has sold three of its AM radio stations to Radio First for £730,000. They are Classic Gold 774, in Cheltenham and Gloucester; Classic Gold 1557 AM in Northampton; and Classic Gold 1332 in Peterborough.…The separate disposal by GWR of 11% of London News Radio to Daily Mail & General Trust *GWR And… Continue reading GWR Sells Gold Stations
The Radio Authority has accepted 8 applications for the new, small-scale, Independent Local Radio licences within East Sussex. The applicants are:Arrow FM – (Conqueror Broadcasting LTD, Bill Uttley-Moore 01424 426322): A station with wide appeal, in the best traditions of independent local radio. It aims to entertain and inform the people of Hastings and the… Continue reading Radio Authority Receives 8 Applications For East Sussex Licences
Murray Dudgeon has been appointed Managing Director of GWR’s flagship national radio station, Classic FM.Dudgeon joins GWR, the independent radio group, from the media agency, Universal McCann Worldwide where he is currently European Media Director. He is renowned for his expertise in the field of programme sponsorship, production, barter and syndication.Dudgeon takes up his new… Continue reading New Managing Director For Classic FM
HTV has launched its own Teletext Ancillary Service; viewers in the West of England will now be able to access a range of information on HTV and its programmes. HTV Teletext is found on pages 600-699. Viewers in Wales will receive individual regional pages.The pages will feature details of forthcoming HTV programming, studio-audience ticket availability… Continue reading HTV Now Appearing On Teletext
Cable company Telewest today issued operating statistics which show that cable penetration in its franchise area has increased by 0.7% points to 22.6% year on year. Churn was down slightly at 33.4% and cable TV customers increased year on year by 31.5% to 528,142.Telewest’s figures are indicative of most cable companies at present. Nynex for… Continue reading Telewest Penetration Shows Slight Increase
