Following the departure of Jim Park as advertisement sales director at Caledonian Publishing, Donald Emslie, currently commercial director at STV will temporarily assume the role, in addition to his current TV responsibility. Neither Caledonian or STV were able to comment as to whether any permanent replacement would have such a wide ranging portfolio.…The BBC’s commercial… Continue reading Appointment Briefs
The Radio Authority has announced that it is considering allowing a fourth national commercial radio station to broadcast in the UK.The move has come about after the Department of National Heritage said that a defunct long wave frequency previously assigned to the BBC for use in Scotland would be given back to the Authority to… Continue reading Fourth National Radio Station Planned
John Blakemore, ad director at SmithKline Beecham, yesterday rounded on agencies and stated that the “problem with the media process is that it is jargon laden and shrouded in mystique with many of the practitioners of the black art sometimes having a vested interest in keeping you confused.”Speaking at yesterday’s “Emperor’s New Clothes” conference at… Continue reading Call For More Client Involvement In Media Process
Revenue Agency estimates for October show that total revenue for Channel 4 and ITV reached £224.16m, an increase of 10.4% on last year. ITV revenue increased by 11.5% to £175.16m whilst Channel 4 pulled in £49m, which is a smaller rise of 6.9%: this puts the ratio between ITV and Channel 4 at 78:22. LWT… Continue reading TV Round-Up – October
No real change in the top programmes of the week with Coronation Street maintaining its first place and taking second. Wednesday episode achieved 18.26 million viewers, with Mondays gaining 17.59 million, helped along this week by the departure of long-standing character Raquel leaving devastated husband Curly.ITV’s dramas continue to gain larger audiences than the BBC,… Continue reading TV Viewing Summary – W/E 17/11/96
www.loaded.co.ukThere seems to be a great amount of activity amongst many of the men’s magazines titles in launching web sites. One may well be surprised to learn that the Loaded web site has in fact only been up and running for a week, but as one would expect from this title a great deal of… Continue reading Web Site Of The Week – Loaded
Bristol United Press, the regional newspaper group, has reported a half year drop in profits from £4.49 million to £4.24 million, a fall of 5.6%. Revenue increased slightly from £30.4m to £31.1m.The drop in profits was mostly due to a rise in newsprint costs which are believed to have peaked during the period though ad… Continue reading Bristol United Press Sees Profit Drop
Future Publishing have closed Rugby Magazine just four months after it had received a relaunch. The closure is being attributed to the high number of Rugby related magazines that are currently on the market and the fact that sales did not increase substantially enough.… launching just in time to pick up Rugby Magazine’s readers, Inside… Continue reading Future Cease Publication Of Rugby Magazine
Admissions Cinema admissions have been varied so far this year, with January and February starting 1996 off well by each recording figures of just over 12 million. The best month of the year so far however was August which saw an overall increase of 23.87% on the same month last year with a figure of… Continue reading Cinema Round-Up – January To October
Unofficial overnight figures for last night’s screening of ITV’s detective drama Inspector Morse show that it achieved a peak audience of 14.29 million viewers, with an average audience of 13.59 million between 8pm and 10pm.BBC1 had How Do They Do That?, Points Of View, Nine O’Clock News, Budget Response and X-Files up against Morse and… Continue reading Inspector Morse Overnights
