Burger King has announced it is to sponsor both the English and Welsh National football teams. Sponsorship of the England team begins tonight with the friendly against Columbia, and will continue to beyond the UEFA Euro 96 Championships to be held in England next June. The Welsh sponsorship begins with today’s fixture against Moldova.Both sponsorship… Continue reading Burger King Supports English And Welsh Football
East Anglia is to have a new AM radio station from the end of September offering ‘great hits and golden memories’. Amber launches on September 24 as part of the SGR group and will match the transmission areas of FM stations SGR Ipswich, SGR Bury and Broadland.It will play the same service across the 3… Continue reading SGR To Offer Golden Memories
Press articles have revealed that BSkyB is planning seven new channels from next month. These new services are reported to be: EBN Paramount Channel Disney Channel Playboy Channel Sky Sports Gold Sci-Fi History Channel However, BSkyB this morning said these reports are speculation, and refused to give any further comment.
The first two days of Channel 4’s Sci-Fi Weekend has had some success, with the film Outland and the documentary Real X Files both attracting over 2 million viewers although both programmes failed to appear in Channel 4’s top ten programmes list.Television viewing is starting to increase as summer comes to an end; this week’s… Continue reading TV Viewing Summary – W/E 27/08/95
NBC has announced that it is soon to increase the amount of CNBC business programming on its Astra 1D satellite, as an interim step towards the launch of a full 24-hour ASTRA delivered CNBC Europe business channel early in 1996.The move is scheduled for the end of October, and will extend CNBC’s live US market… Continue reading NBC To Launch 24-Hour European Business Channel
The latest ABCs to be released include the first one for Jane Asher’s Magazine at 101,980. Total ABCs Jan-Jun 94 Jan-Jun 95 % Ch Actual Change Land Rover Owner 57,110 60,724 6.32 3,614 Saga 583,191 601,851 3.19 18,660 Irish Farmers Journal 71,286 72,519 1.72 1,233 Waterways World 21,869 21,683 -0.85 -186 Choice 132,543 128,491 -3.05… Continue reading Jan-Jun Latest ABCs
Overnight viewing figures for the start of the autumn schedules show that on Sunday evening ITV achieved a 46.9% prime time share of viewing compared to 33.9% for BBC1.Sunday night’s programmes included; Dr Quinn Medicine Woman, which was watched by 6 million people and had a 34% share of viewing, Heartbeat had 13.3 million viewers… Continue reading ITV Success In New Autumn Schedules
London radio listeners have more choice from this morning with the launch of Heart 106.2. Billed as London’s first adult contemporary music radio station, Heart 106.2 began broadcasting at 7am. Simply Red’s Something’s Got Me Started kicked the station off.Chrysalis owned Heart 106.2 will follow the format of its sister station, Heart 100.7, the regional… Continue reading More London Radio Competition
Press reports this morning claim that BSkyB is celebrating the largest ever audience achieved by satellite television in the UK for Saturday night’s exclusive coverage of Frank Bruno’s world title boxing match.Unofficial overnight figures put the peak viewing figure at 3.43m viewers; one million more viewers than previous satellite records. Sky claims this figure is… Continue reading Bruno Attracts Over 3m Satellite Viewers
The Radio Authority has published its response to the Government’s Media Ownership Proposals; the Authority has also included recommendations for changes to the 1990 Broadcasting Act.The Radio Authority has specifically highlighted the fact there is no mention of ‘safeguarding plurality’ in the 1990 Act (by plurality it means a range of views and opinions); plurality… Continue reading Radio Authority Response To Media Ownership Proposals
