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
Jonathan King’s bid to become the highest paid radio presenter in Britain has failed. He negotiated a million dollar deal with Talk Radio UK back in October whereby if he attracted a million new listeners to the station he would receive the million dollars.If his morning show (1000 to 1200) had managed to increase its… Continue reading Talk Radio Replaces “Million Dollar Mouth”
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
Cadbury and Coronation Street have joined forces to create Britain’s biggest broadcast sponsorship deal. The deal, which has long been rumoured (Newsline 10/01), is worth £10m and will begin in September.The sponsorship will include the Cadbury logo in the opening and closing credits and also off-air promotions where Cadbury will be able to use the… Continue reading Cadbury To Sponsor The Street
Johnston Press plc has today announced pre-tax profits of £16.836m, an increase of 14.8% year on year. Turnover was up by 7.5% to £102.438m for the year ended 31 December 1995.Fred Johnston, Chairman, said, “The rise in newsprint prices also appears to have greatly slowed, if not altogether ceased, and this is another welcome development.1996… Continue reading Johnston Press Profits At £16.836m
