Rodale Press, American sports publisher, is to launch a bi-monthly magazine in the UK called Men’s Health. A bi-monthly title, launching on 18th January, it is a lifestyle magazine, focussing on active pursuits, nutrition, male grooming, fashion and fitness.Men’s Health will have a cover price of £1.95. It will be a glossy, perfect bound title,… Continue reading New Men’s Health Title
Stephen Dorrell, National Heritage Secretary warned the BBC last night that it would have to maintain a large share of the audience to guarantee continuation of the licence fee. He said, “If the audience narrows, the case for a universal licence fee will be weakened.” The government is committed to licence fee funding until 2001.… Continue reading BBC Must Keep Share
According to the latest Irish listenership figures, the JNLR/MRBI November Interim report which was released this week, 50% of all listeners heard a local independent radio station “yesterday”, over the period April to September 1994.Although the interim report does not indicate market share, Michael O’Keeffe, Chief Executive of the Independent Radio and Television Commission said… Continue reading Half Of Irish Listeners Choose Local Radio
Speaking yesterday at the TV Summit, Eugene Connell of Nynex and the Cable Communications Association predicted that by the end of the year there will be 1 million cable subscribers. By 1995 there will be 6.5 million homes passed; this figure will be 14 million by the year 2000. Subscribers should have reached 6.6 million… Continue reading Cable Subscribers To Exceed 6m By 2000
Durex is to sponsor Dial MTV, a phone-in video chart show run on MTV Networks Europe, supported by an advertising campaign in the spring of next year. During the course of the year-long sponsorship, Durex will get 179 million exposures to the 16-34 year-old target market and an estimated 14.7 million exposures to 16-34 year-olds… Continue reading Durex In MTV Sponsorship Deal
Today the TV Summit 94 is being held in Brighton. Chaired by Ray Snoddy, the media correspondent of the Financial Times, the Keynote speech will be made by Chris Smith, Shadow Heritage Secretary.Other speakers include David English from Associated Newspapers, Eugene Connell from Nynex and Nick Brien from Leo Burnett, who will all discuss the… Continue reading TV Summit 1994
Nickelodeon has recorded its highest rating on Friday 29th October,beating all channels within the Satellite Market, Channel 4 & BBC2 (kids) within satellite homes with a 2.6 average kids TVR. Nickelodeon also went on to gain a 7% share of the children’s market, beating Channel 4 and BBC2 (kids) week ending Sunday 30th October according… Continue reading Nickelodeon On The Increase
Former National Heritage Secretary, David Mellor, is to broaden his own media coverage further with a series of late-night chat shows to be screened by Channel 4 in the new year. According to Broadcast magazine, the shows, un-titled as yet, are to be produced by the same company responsible for After Dark.
Microsoft is to test an “end-to-end software solution” for interactive TV early next year. The system includes distributed operating system software for connecting TV set-top boxes and PCs with a wide variety of services, plus media server software for delivering video-on-demand and a set of interactive applications.
At the TV Summit ’94 this morning, Sir David English, chairman and editor in chief of Associated Newspaper announced that they have just acquired a second cable television channel. “The Performance Channel”. It is an Arts and Entertainment channel which broadcasts for 10 hours per day. Associated’s 24 hour news and feature channel, “Channel 1”… Continue reading Associated Acquires Second TV Channel
