Batman Forever has taken £4,714,153 in its first three days of release. This is £160,984 less than the record takings that Jurassic Park took in 1993 and £1,939,357 more than the previous opening of Batman Returns in 1992. One reason why Batman Returns took less could be attributed to the fact that it was rated… Continue reading Batman Forever Box Office Receipts
Reed Elsevier is putting Reed Regional Newspapers up for sale, it has announced today. It will also sell the consumer books business in the Netherlands and the consumer magazine titles it has in the USA and the Netherlands.IPC Magazines, part of Reed Elsevier, will remain as their only consumer publishing activity.Ian Irvine and Herman Bruggink,… Continue reading Reed To Sell Off All Regional Titles
The first titles to release their January to June circulation figures are the Gruner + Jahr titles Best and Prima. The weekly Best appears unaffected by the launch of Eva, recording an increase year on year of 7.9% to 572,367. Prima, however, recorded a loss of 1.4% year on year to 557,338. JAN-JUN’94 JAN-JUN’95 %… Continue reading First Jan To June Consumer ABCs – G+J
June’s national newspaper ABCs show that the Independent’s revamp at the beginning of June was a successful move, with its Jnecirculation at 303,273,breaking the 300,000 mark for the fit time since Novemer 1993. This was an increase of 9.3% on last June’s figure, second only in terms of year on yearincrase to theTimes, which was… Continue reading Latest ABCs – Good News For Independent
BARB monthly universe estimates for July 95 have come in as follows: Total Dish Cable SMATV (000s) (000s) (000s) (000s) Jul 94 3667 2754 823 90 Jul 95 4430 3138 1222 70 Whilst dish sales still remain the major form of access to non terrestrial TV, their sales are slowing compared to connections via cable.… Continue reading Cable sales Up Over 48%
The Labour leader, Tony Blair has told 200 editors and executives of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation that much of the UK’s media regulation framework is obsolete and Labour is committed to an “open and competitive media market.”In his speech in Australia, Mr Blair outlined Labour’s proposals on media and technology to News Corporation in a… Continue reading Blair Addresses Murdoch’s News Corporation
According to yesterday’s Sunday Times, ITV is demanding cuts of between £10m and £20m per year in the budget for News at Ten and other networked news bulletins. The savings would go towards increasing comedy output, in a bid to appease advertiser criticisms. ITN would not comment this morning, but has announced that its lead… Continue reading News At Ten – Budget Cut?
GWR has announced that it now has control of 59% of Chiltern Radio PLC; it has received valid acceptances from the majority shareholders of Chiltern Radio, Capital Radio and DMGT. Capital, which has 1,297,100 shares, and DMGT, which has 1,297,175 shares, own 37% of Chiltern’s shares. EMA, which owns 648,588 Chiltern shares has also accepted… Continue reading GWR Takeover Of Chiltern Looks Set To Go Ahead
The ITC has announced it is to invite applications for a local delivery franchise for Southport. The license area is defined as including the local authority of Sefton, West Lancashire, South Ribble, and Chorley, other than those parts of the area covered by the existing Central Lancashire and North Liverpool and Sefton cable franchises. The… Continue reading New Local Delivery Franchise
Derek Hemment has been appointed deputy chief executive of Laser and Philip France has been appointed managing director. Gary Knight and Simon Pardon are both appointed as executive sales directors and will jointly manage the newly-merged sales department, supported by six account directors. Ian McCulloch is operations director.Mick Desmond, Chief Executive of Laser, said, “We… Continue reading Laser Restructuring – Appointments
