From April 14th The Sunday Times will increase its Scottish coverage and build Scottish editorial into the main paper. There will be 12 extra Scottish pages in Main News, Business, Sport and Appointments and a new 12 page broadsheet lifestyle and listings section, Ecosse, which will provide coverage of Scotland’s cultural life.The Scottish features, business… Continue reading New Scottish Coverage For Sunday Times
BARB contractor AGB Taylor Nelson has revealed its method of assessing viewing figures for the forthcoming digital TV stations.The system, which has taken three years to develop at a cost running to hundreds of thousands of pounds, is called ‘Picture Matching’. For technical reasons the existing method of measuring TV audiences, which uses channel frequencies… Continue reading AGB Pioneer Digital TV Monitoring
IPC’s New Scientist is running a four-week Spring promotion. It starts on April 18th with two weeks of advertising on London radio stations, together with a dedicated two week PR programme in the Meridian region.In the first week of the promotion New Scientist is also running a competition with London News Radio, with the main… Continue reading New Scientist Special Promotion
TeleWest has announced that advertisers will be able to target specific homes in its UK cable television franchises due to the use of digital technology.The digital ad insertion system, developed in conjunction with SeaChange International, will mean that different ads can be shown in different homes according to geographic or socioeconomic factors. It also means… Continue reading Telewest Ads Target Audience
Premier, the UK’s only commercial Christian radio station, will launch its new sound on Monday 15th April. The station’s new programme schedule offers a stronger Christian identity including several new programmes. The move is a response to recent research undertaken to identify what Premier’s listeners want to hear.Premier will offer more Christian music, reflection, bible… Continue reading Premier To Launch New Programming
Mirror Group and Tony O’Reilly’s Irish-based Independent Newspapers have announced today that they will be raising £23m to help save Newspaper Publishing, publisher of the Independent and Independent on Sunday.Both papers have had declining circulations and it has been rumoured that they may even close. The new financing deal means that both Mirror Group and… Continue reading £23m Cash Injection For Independent
CLT UK Radio Sales has announced the appointment of Stan Park as Commercial Director.Both the Atlantic 252 and Talk Radio sales teams will report to Mr Park, who will be responsible for expanding current revenues and developing new revenue streams for CLT UK Radio’s two national stations. He joins from IRS where he has been… Continue reading CLT UK Radio Sales Appoints Commercial Director
UK gay men and lesbians are to get their own TV channel from next year, according to trade press reports. The station will be the first national general entertainment and lifestyle homosexual TV channel.Rainbow Television Network will aim to attract a broad audience of gay, lesbian and heterosexuals. It will offer entertainment and lifestyle programmaing,… Continue reading Gay TV Channel To Launch
Kentish Times Newspapers Group has appointed Mediaforce to handle its ad sales. As a result the regional newspaper group has closed its own in-house sales operation, Portfolio Media Services.Mediaforce won the contract this week and it is believed the account is worth around £2 million. The Kentish Times group, which is owned by Fletcher Newspapers,… Continue reading Mediaforce Wins New Client
The latest Average Weekly Admissions for February show admissions are up an impressive 25% year on year to 3.11 million; last February’s average admissions were 2.48 million. So far 1996 has been a very successful year for the cinema industry; January broke Box Office records, and the weekend of 24th and 25th February was Cinema’s… Continue reading February Cinema Admissions Up 25.6%
