Some of the last Jan to June ABCs are now in, the late arrivals including the male titles Face and Arena, with Face up 6.3%. Private Eye has also recorded a year on year increase, of 3.7% to 191,771. ABC Totals Jan-Jun’94 Jan-Jun’95 % Change Actual Change GARDENS ILLUSTRATED 31,830 38,064 19.58 6,234 SCOTTISH FIELD… Continue reading Latest Jan-Jun ABCs
The Independent Television Commission has published its response to the proposals by the Government on cross media ownership which were published in May. The ITC “broadly welcomes the main thrust of the Government’s thinking” and supports its recognition of the need for special regulation of media ownership, and also supports the limited relaxation of rules… Continue reading ITC Seeks Role As Digital Watchdog
MTV Europe has signed a new sponsorship and advertising agreement with Levi Strauss & Co. They are to sponsor Cinematic, MTV’s magazine movie programme.Cinematic is a twice-daily fifteen minute programme which provides information on film and video releases Europe-wide. It is broadcast Monday-Friday at 3pm and repeated at 10.15pm. To increase Levi’s association with cinema… Continue reading MTV In Levi’s Sponsorship Deal
The average weekly cinema admissions for July were 2.41 million; this is an increase of 15.4% on last year, and up by over 1 million on June. The monthly total was over 10 million at 10,671,604; this is the highest monthly total so far this year. Last July’s total was 9.2 million.The strong performance this… Continue reading Batman Forever Has Biggest Opening Day Ever
Express Newspapers and Mirror Group are set to become partners in UK News, the news service for evening newspapers launched two years ago by Northcliffe Newspapers and Westminster Press, after they discontinued subscriptions to PA. Both groups will use UK News instead of the Press Association.Over the next few months UK News plans to expand… Continue reading Express & Mirror Leave PA
Interest for the World Athletics Championship shown between 5th August and 13th August has been very low, with only Linford Christie’s unsuccessful defence of his 100 metres title watched by more than 6m viewers. Even the BBC1 highlights of the day’s main events failed to attract more than 5.8 million.Saturday 5th AugustEvents shown on BBC1… Continue reading World Athletic Championships Round Up
The Disney Channel UK is to launch on 1st October, broadcasting daily from 6am to 10pm on the Sky Movies Gold channel 26 (Astra 1B).The Disney Channel UK is a subscription only channel and will not carry advertising. It will be available to Sky satellite and cable dual movie subscribers throughout the UK and Ireland.The… Continue reading Disney Channel Launch
96.4 The Eagle, the new service replacing Radio Mercury in the Guildford area in April 1996, has reached an agreement with Radio Mercury to take over the operation much earlier than was originally planned; 96.4 The Eagle, owned by Surrey & North East Hampshire Radio Ltd, will launch on 4 September.The station, due to its… Continue reading Guildford’s Eagle Flies Earlier Than Planned
Electronic Telegraph, the Telegraph’s on line newspaper, has secured United Airlines and Vauxhall as new advertisers. Vauxhall began advertising on Electronic Telegraph (http://www.telegraph.co.uk) on Tuesday August 22nd and will continue until February 1996. United Airlines advertisement was launched on Monday August 21st and will run for eight weeks in total.The advertisements will rotate around six… Continue reading New Advertisers For Electronic Telegraph
VH-1, the adult music channel is one year old next month and according to new audience research, the channel is out performing other stations in the 25-44 year old bracket.According to BARB, VH1 delivers the highest proportion of ABC1 adults aged under 44 (34%) and 25-44 year olds (62%) of comparable UK TV channels. VH1… Continue reading VH-1 Best For 25-44 Year Olds
