Total terrestrial TV revenue for December reached £163.55 million. Of this, ITV brought in £126.55m and Channel 4 reached £37m. Among the ITV companies there was very little change year-on-year. Carlton experienced the biggest change with an increase of 0.9% point change while YTTV had the biggest drop at 0.65% points.
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
The ITC has published its report detailing programme complaints and interventions made in December.No programmes broadcast in December resulted in significant interventions or the imposition of a sanction. There were, however, a number of programmes that raised important regulatory issues and a number of complaints.Sky News was one case in point. On 8 October 1996,… Continue reading ITC Programme Complaints And Interventions Report
As reported on Newsline yesterday, MTV Networks Europe is set to launch two new music television channels for the UK called MTV in the UK and M2: Music Television.MTV in the UK will be a dedicated music and youth entertainment channel targeted at 16-34 year olds in the UK and will replace MTV Europe’s existing… Continue reading New MTV Channels Announced
Hollinger International, the group that owns the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, is said to be considering expanding into the regional press. Midland Independent Newspapers is known to have attracted the group’s attention.Hollinger bid £105 million for Midland in 1991. It was beaten by a management buy-out group that paid £125 million. Midland, which publishes The… Continue reading Telegraph To Take A Stake In The Provinces
Nynex CableComms this afternoon released yearly financial figures which show that total revenue has increased by 78% year-on-year to £151 million.While cable penetration increased marginally from 19.8% to 20.6% and customers increased 36% to 268,519, the company is still in the red to the tune of £63.1m. This is an improvement however on 1995’s figure… Continue reading Increased Revenue For Nynex
The Guardian Media Section was re-launched yesterday as a stand alone supplement. It leads with an interesting interview with Murdoch Junior, Rupert Murdoch’s daughter. But, the Murdoch mind had little difficulty dodging around the questions; John Mulholland failed to drag out any interesting answers.An expanded jobs section has helped bulk out the pages. There are… Continue reading Supplement Review – Media Guardian
UK Living has unveiled details of its new three-hour morning strand Tiny Living which launches on February 3.Based around pre-school programming and aimed at mums and their children, Tiny Living will replace all the BBC programming previously in that slot. Programmes in the schedule, which will run seven days per week from 0600-0900, include Barney… Continue reading UK Living Launches New Morning Strand
Cable and Wireless, the UK’s largest cable and communications company, has appointed Graham Wallace as its new chief executive. Wallace was formerly chief executive of Granada Group’s Restaurants and Services division. He has no telecoms or cable experience.Wallace is to be chief executive of Cable and Wireless Communications, a telephony to cable television group formed… Continue reading Granada Chief Moves To C&W
