The Food Advertising Unit is holding its first Annual Conference entitled “Food and Drink Advertising to Children: Developing Public Policy” on November 7th at the Old Town Hall in Stratford.Speakers in attendance include George Bull, chairman of Grand Metropolitan plc and president of the AA, and Uisdean Maclean the head of Advertising Clearance at the… Continue reading Conference News
The men’s monthly magazine sector is now firmly established in the market with titles now reflecting various different target audiences, and most still showing good growth. With Arena, Face, I-D, and FHM all now celebrating at least ten years of publication more recent competition from Loaded, Maxim and Eat Soup has brought notice from both… Continue reading Men’s Magazine Market Round-Up
The liberalisation of cross-media ownership rules became law today, effectively meaning that the key industry players will have more freedom to realise their expansion ambitions.The key plank of the new Schedule to the Broadcasting Act 1996 is that numerical limits on the holding of radio and television licences has been abolished to be replaced by… Continue reading New Media Ownership Rules Become Law
According to the latest Establishment Survey many more ITV Households have 3+ sets in their homes compared to last year – just over 4.5m, up 14.82%. Most homes now have 2+ sets (13,445,000). Following in the same vein ownership of 2+ videos has shown the largest increase amongst all equipment – up 15.20% to nearly… Continue reading More TVs, More Videos – Establishment Survey June 96
The cover-price of the Independent ‘s Saturday edition is increasing tomorrow by 10p to 60p. The latest ABC figure for the paper showed its decline is continuing: in September it fell by 9.19% to 266,426 copies.Subscribers can see all the latest ABC and NRS figures in Newsline’s Features section
As reported on Tuesday’s *WBTV Launch May Be Delayed, WBTV, the new Warner Brothers satellite channel, will not launch today.In a sparse joint statement with BSkyB, who is supposed to be carrying the channel, Warner says that it is having “difficulties” with the launch but will look to solve these in the near future. WBTV… Continue reading WBTV Launch Delayed
Ahead of today’s shareholder’s annual meeting BSkyB has announced three month figures to the end of September which show profit rising 31% to £66 million. Turnover also showed good growth, rising 24% to £266m.Subscribers to the company’s satellite service increased slightly, up 2.6% to 5.65 million. The strong figures gave BSkyB a much-needed boost on… Continue reading BSkyB Profits Rise 31%
Chrysalis Radio Sales has promoted two of its sales group heads to local sales managers. Tara Norveil and Andrew McCutcheon will now head the team selling airtime for Heart 106.2 in London.…In another radio move Radio Trent has recruited Steve Mayall to the position of sales manager. He was previously sales controller at Invicta.…Julian Downing,… Continue reading Sales Appointments Announced
Southern Newspapers has this afternoon announced a major review of its operating regions, structures and costs which effectively means its Bournemouth-based Central and Southampton-based Eastern publishing regions will merge.Titles in the new Southern region include the Southern Daily Echo, the Evening Echo Bournemouth, the Southampton Advertiser Series and the Dorset Advertiser Series. The review also… Continue reading Southern Newspapers Merges Regions
Media group EMAP has announced that it will be buying The Box, the cable TV music channel, for £8.3m.The Box is an interactive music channel playing videos selected by cable audiences from a specified playlist. It is available to over 90% of the UK’s 1.5 million cable homes where it has a weekly reach of… Continue reading EMAP Buys Into Youth Market
