Centaur’s new title, out today, claims to be “the first magazine written with the aim of putting you in control of your money”, and adopts an appropriately informative stance thereafter through 96 glossy pages of news and views on banks, investments, mortgages, insurance and overseas economies.The magazine goes in for a little name dropping with… Continue reading Inside Money – First Issue Report
Macmillan Publishing is closing its monthly title aimed at district nurses, Community Outlook, and re-launching it as a practical, advisory title, Community Nurse – also monthly from February, taking over the controlled circulation of its predecessor of 15,010.A monthly supplement Nurse Prescriber will be a clinical section to help nurses understand the issue of prescribing.Page… Continue reading New Nursing Title
IPC Magazines has agreed to buy out GE Publishing’s interest in Essentials and its worldwide licences. GE’s editorial team will now transfer to South Bank, and publishing director Sandy Gale will take responsibility for the title.The most recent edition of the title was launched in South Africa.
According to Register-Meal brand expenditure data for November the National Lottery spent in excess of £8m (8,368,000) on publicising the event; the first draw taking place on 19th November 1994.The National Lottery expenditure split was as follows: £(000’s) Television 3589 National Press 2668 Outdoor 1518 Regional Press 380 Radio 213
Bell Cablemedia is thought to be the next cable company to float. Analysts say the flotation could raise over £100m. The company say they would use the money for acquisitions, and speculation is that Videotron, in which Bell already has a 30% stake may be a target.Bell Cablemedia covers more than 2m homes in Britain… Continue reading Another UK Cable Flotation
In an effort to attract readers of Me, which closed last week, G&J is cutting the price of Best this week from 50p to 35p.
Quarter 4 Rajar results – topline data released January 30th, full data one week later – will include the following changes and additions:New stations – Century Radio Galaxy 101 The Hotter Mix Scot FM Country 1035 Heart 100.7 FM JFM North West Fortune 1458 London News 97.3 FM / London News Talk 1152 AM (replaces… Continue reading Changes To Next Rajar
The Advertising Standards Authority has upheld a complaint from Haymarket Publications against Centaur, which claimed in an advertisement for Marketing Week that 94% of advertising and marketing personnel read each issue. In fact the names for Centaur’s research came from its own controlled circulation database.The ASA agreed that the research was “biased and invalid”, and… Continue reading ASA Raps Marketing Week
Alec Kenny, Sales Director of Talk Radio, today refused to comment to MediaTel on newspaper reports that Steve Wright is due to join them from Radio 1. He would however confirm the following presenters: Scott Chisholm, Caesar (from Kiss 100FM), Terry Christian, Jeremy Beadle, Moz Dee (from CW Radio) and Al Kelly. Talk Radio launches… Continue reading Talk Radio Line-Up
Charles Burgess, managing editor of The Independent, has left the paper, his role being taken up by assistant editor Colin Hughes. Burgess had been at the paper since prior to its launch, but said there was not really a job for him there anymore.Further problems loom with production staff voting to take industrial action over… Continue reading Managing Editor Leaves Independent
