Westminster Cable, currently in the process of Video-on-Demand trials, has said it can already be seen that comedy is a very popular choice within the new system, with Blackadder being the most requested item overall. Bram Stoker’s Dracula is the most frequently requested movie.Stage one of the trial, now into its fourth month, involves residential… Continue reading Westminster Cable Video On Demand Results
Videotron, the fifth largest cable operator, has released second quarter figures which show cable penetration increasing from 19% to 20.6% and churn rates dropping from 29.3% to 26.6%. Total revenue from cable TV also increased by 32%, from £6.18m in the same period last year to £8.19m this year.Net losses however increased from £2.6 million… Continue reading Videotron Shows Penetration Increase And Drop In Churn
The BBC yesterday announced that it will be spending £249 million on its new spring and summer schedule. Highlights include new Dennis Potter drama (screened jointly with Channel 4), a new version of Doctor Who and coverage of football’s Euro ’96.There will also be a new epic ten-part series, No Bananas, which follows the fortunes… Continue reading BBC Launches £249m Spring And Summer Season
From the publisher of Auto Trader, Bike Trader will launch on Wednesday 10 April. The A4 fortnightly title, priced £1.40 will have a minimum of 88 full colour newsprint pages and a distribution of 76,000 copies.Bike Trader will be the bike equivalent of Auto Trader; a publiscation giving buyers and sellers in the motorbike market… Continue reading Auto Trader Launches Bike Trader
BBC1’s new Saturday night drama series Dalziel and Pascoe has been beaten in the Saturday ratings war by Stars In Their Eyes. The cop show managed to attract 9.76 million viewers compared to 11.13 million for ITV’s show. Dalziel and Pascoe had a 38% consolidated share of the viewing audience, the lowest of all BBC1’s… Continue reading TV Viewing Summary – Rise For Other Viewing
Viewers complained about a scene in Brookside in which a young unmarried girl admitted to having sexual intercourse and to attending a clinic to obtain a morning-after pill. The complaint, reported in the Broadcasting Standards Council Complaints Bulletin, was not upheld because the girl’s growing sexual awareness was a recurrent theme in the soap.There were… Continue reading Brookside Sex Causes Complaint
The BARB Panel for the London area is to be boosted by 50 homes to give the area a total of 525 homes, the largest on the ITV network.During the autumn of 1995, ITV audiences in the London area were seen to decline more than the network average when compared with 1994; this was due… Continue reading Barb Boosts London Area Panel
Johnston Press has announced an exchange of regional newspaper titles with Newsquest Media Group for £9.25 million. The exchange comprises the £5.75m sale of three paid for and two free titles published by Johnston in Bury and the £15m acquisition of one paid for and three free Newsquest titles in the Doncaster area. The deal… Continue reading Johnston Press Exchanges Titles With Newsquest
Talk Radio has appointed Jane O’Hara as Marketing Controller to oversee the creation of its new sales operation CLT UK Radio Sales. She has most recently worked at Independent Radio Sales and was previously Director of Radio at Media Buying Services.David Lees, who left his position of Sales and Marketing Director at Talk last week,… Continue reading Talk Radio Appoints Marketing Controller
Regional newspaper groups are endeavouring to make amendments to the forthcoming broadcasting bill which will allow them to compete on an equal footing with national newspapers.The Newspaper Society believes that as the Bill stands powerful national newspapers, with whom regionals compete, will be able to control local media which regional newspaper groups could not.Regional newspapers… Continue reading Regionals In Broadcasting Bill Battle
