At a press conference this morning HTV, the Welsh and western England television broadcaster, announced pre-tax profits of £12.1m for 1995, an increase of 66%.Earnings per share were up 54% to 10.5p compared with 1994’s figure of 6.8p; profit margins grew to 30% (1994:29%); and Harvest Entertainment (HTV’s rights activities section) showed an operating profit… Continue reading HTV Profits Up 66% To £12.1 Million
At yesterday’s Financial Times New Media and Broadcasting Conference, a leading European satellite broadcaster predicted a dramatic expansion in the number of television channels to be available in the next few years.Koos Bekker, chief executive of NetHold said that by the year 2000 there could be as many as 4,500 television channels available because of… Continue reading 4,500 Satellite Channels Predicted By 2000
BT has announced plans to launch its own mass market, dial-up Internet service at the end of March. The service, called BT Internet, will be aimed at residential and small business customers, and will compete with existing providers such as Demon Internet and Unipalm Pipex.There will be a one-off charge of £20, then a flat… Continue reading BT To Launch Own “Mass Market” Internet Service
Future Publishing will launch a new glossy magazine aimed at creative PC users. Computer Arts, launching on 6th June, will be bi-monthly for the first 3 months and will then go monthly. An initial print-run of approximately 60,000 is planned and the title will cost £5: not surprisingly the target market consists mainly of AB1’s,… Continue reading New PC Designer Magazine
The Radio Authority has announced that thirteen stations had submitted applications to run the Yorkshire regional radio licence by today’s closing date. As reported on Newsline (01/02/96) the licence is the second largest local radio licence outside London and will reach around 3 million adults.The applicants are: Arrow Broadcasting (Arrow FM, Nick Boakes, 0171 253… Continue reading Thirteen Stations To Compete For Yorkshire Radio Licence
L!ve TV, the London-based cable channel owned by Mirror Group has confirmed that it has signed a deal with Trinity International to form Liverpool Live, a cable channel for Merseyside.Liverpool Live will be the third affiliate of Mirror Group’s Live TV; the others being Birmingham (in association with Midland Independent Newspapers) and Westminster. The launch… Continue reading L!ve TV Expands To Liverpool
More ABC figures have been released: Title Jl-Dec 94 Jl-Dec 95 % Ch Actual Ch Ski Survey (Jan-Dec) 22,194 20,973 -5.5 -1,221 TV Hits 203,424 192,034 -5.59 -11,390 Right Start 56,911 52,966 -6.93 -3,945 Practical Woodworking 32,798 27,008 -17.65 -5,790 Living (closed) 131,296 106,297 -19.04 -24,999 Complete Car 56,751 40,089 -29.35 -16,662 Modern Painters –… Continue reading Latest July-December ABC Figures
The next MRG Evening Meeting will be on Broadcast Sponsorship Research. There will be two speakers, Ivor Millman of TSMS and Jim Kite of BSkyB. Ivor will be talking about ITV’s latest research initiative with Millward Brown and some recent TOM results. Jim will be presenting the results from some new qualitative research, comparing how… Continue reading MRG Evening Meeting – Broadcast Sponsorship Research
Research published by NOP shows that over 150,000 people have used the Internet to purchase products and services in the past six months.The growing propensity to shop over the Internet is shown by the survey of 1,000 users: 9% said they would consider buying holidays through the Internet; 11% would consider buying books; 12% software;… Continue reading Internet Shopping Increasing
In what is turning out to be an excellent year for cinema so far, this weekend saw cinema box office records broken again, with £7.7 million being taken across the Top 15 films; the previous record was for the weekend 5th-7th January this year, when £7.2 million was taken. Before that, the next highest taking… Continue reading Biggest Cinema Weekend Ever
