Today sees IPC’s ‘biggest magazine launch in eight years’ – Now magazine – ‘The smarter women’s weekly’.Aimed at BC1C2 women aged 20-44 the title launches into what is becoming a fairly crowded women’s weekly market and unfortunately offers nothing very new or different. The magazine’s content varies little from magazines likely to be its main… Continue reading Now Magazine – First Issue Review
One can actually point out some of those responsible for the current growth in interest in the areas of strange phenomena: new age philosophy and things that go bump in the night. Scully, Mulder, Mystic Meg, and Yuri Geller all have a lot to answer for. The Fortean Times was actually founded in 1973, and… Continue reading Website Of The Week: Fortean Times
The ITC has decided that Scottish Television’s acquisition of Caledonian Publishing *STV Takes Over Caledonian does not operate against the public interest and can go ahead.The ITC and Office of Fair Trading launched a public interest test regarding the takeover as part of the provisions for the new cross-media ownership rules which were introduced by… Continue reading STV Gets Approval For Caledonian Takeover
Virgin Radio has announced a change in its daytime line-up which sees Russ ‘n Jono’s Breakfast Show extended an extra hour to 10am.The changes have also resulted in Jeremy Clark, who joined the station six weeks ago as overnight presenter, moving into a new afternoon slot between 1 and 4pm. Graham Dene, currently host of… Continue reading Virgin Radio Gets New Daytime Schedule
According to this week’s Campaign Paul Twivy, former chief executive of Bates Dorland, is threatening to sue the agency over alleged breach of contract.The wrangle concerns Twivy’s departure from the agency in September *Dorland Chief Exec Leaves. He is claiming wrongful dismissal, accusing Michael Bungey, Dorland’s chairman, of reneging on a promise to make him… Continue reading Twivy Issues Writ Against Dorlands
According to agency estimates total TV ad revenue for September reached £184.71m, an increase of 2.29% year-on-year. ITV’s revenue remained reasonably static, increasing 0.18% to £141.71m, while Channel 4 rose by 9.9% to £43m. The ratio between ITV and Channel 4 for September was 77:23.Overall among the ITV contractors there was very little change. Only… Continue reading TV Revenue – September
The Independent Television Commission has announced that by Tuesday’s deadline all fifteen ITV companies together with Channel 4, Channel 5, S4C and Teletext had confirmed their intention to launch digital services in 1998.There will be six digital multiplexes, or ‘frequencies’, on which channels will be carried: the first will carry BBC services; the second has… Continue reading TV Companies Guarantee Digital Places
According to sources, BSkyB is considering approaching BARB to work out how viewing share will be calculated when its digital television service is launched next year. It is understood that BSkyB are questioning whether BARB’s satellite panel is large enough to measure the amount of channels BSkyB are planning to offer.A spokesperson from BARB said… Continue reading BSkyB To Approach BARB
Business guru Sir John Harvey-Jones said yesterday that commercial radio should raise its sights and aim for a 10% share of ad revenue within five years. His comments, made at Tuesday’s RAB conference at the Royal Lancaster Hotel, came during a mixed assessment of commercial radio’s past performance and its future position.Sir Harvey-Jones praised local… Continue reading Commercial Radio Should Aim For 10%
