Abbott Mead Vickers have released interim figures showing pre-tax profits up an impressive 58.6% to £2.38m from £1.50m. Turnover has also increased to £108.09m from £94.41m, up 14%, with overall operating profits up 71% to £2.12m.
According to a survey carried out by the European Television Magazines Association, which will appear in this week’s Radio Times, children across Europe prefer cartoons and soap operas to programmes containing violence and too much talk.The survey carried out amongst 9 and 10 year olds across 9 European countries, show that children in Britain prefer… Continue reading Children Prefer Soaps
Videotron Corporation, London’s largest cable operator, has announced plans to offer services in the City of London and the City of Westminster, to both residential and business customers.Videotron have unveiled a business TV and information service offering video, voice, text, data and graphics to business customers, via a single connection to their desk top PC.… Continue reading Multimedia Cable TV Plans For City
Lord Stevens, Chairman Of United Newspapers yesterday reiterated that the Express will not be joining the national newspaper cover price wars. Lord Stevens said, “Our policy is to maintain cover prices and enhance the value of our titles to readers.”United Newspapers announced results for the six months to June. Pre-tax profits were up 36% to… Continue reading Express Will Not Join Price Wars
More O’Ferrall Also Announced Results yesterday, with pre-tax profits up 35% to £2.81m. UK and Irish revenues rose 15%. The group said they had increased prices for poster space.
The first phase of ISOP (the Newspaper Society’s ongoing 1993 multimedia research initiative) is published today in an 18 page report entitled The Multimedia Revolution. Conducted by Meta£Generics, the report describes a vision of the future in which new technologies – On-Line or CD-ROM/CD-i – will radically change regional publishing markets in terms of product… Continue reading Regionals Embrace Multimedia Revolution
The combined ITV/C4 revenue for August has been estimated at £127m, representing a year on year increase of 9.6%, and continues the upward trend which has been apparent since the beginning of the year.The individual ITV and C4 revenue figures of £100.56m and £26.44m both highlight year on year improvements with C4 up an incredible… Continue reading TV Shares And Revenues – August 1994
Janet Street Porter announced yesterday that she is leaving the BBC to become managing director of the Mirror Group’s new cable television channel, Live TV. Street-Porter, currently head of independent production for BBC TV’s entertainment group, said, “I wanted to start a channel from scratch editorially. What’s always driven me is writing new types of… Continue reading Janet Street Porter To Head Cable TV Channel
The Daily Telegraph’s new TV push will highlight the fact that it outsells The Times and The Guardian put together. The camapign will run throughout the South and Midlands from this week until the end of October.
Following its purchase of a 14.9% stake in STV yesterday, MGN has said it is interested in co-operation with STV, thus strengthening its media grip in Scotland – not acquisition. Current TV ownership rules prevent MGN owning more than 20% of STV, but the newspaper group was claiming last night that it was not looking… Continue reading MGN Interested in Co-Operation With STV, Not Acquisition
