National Magazines’ House Beautiful, which cut its cover price to £1 for the August issue “to boost a weak summer market”, has announced a more permanent price cut from £1.40 to £1.30. Its most direct competitor, Homes & Ideas costs £1.20 monthly.House Beautiful announced a new ABC of 320,396 recently, 6.7% down on July-Dec but… Continue reading House Beautiful Cuts Price
Director of programming, David Elstein, and deputy MD, David Chance, are being tipped as the leading contenders to fill the slot vacated at Sky News by Kelvin Mackenzie last week. An outsider for the role is Bruce Gyngell, former TV-am boss, and now working for Kerry Packer’s Channel 9.
The Newcastle Chronicle & Journal is launching The Journal Business Magazine on September 5th (circ 30,000, distributed with the City edition of the paper). York & County Press has launched Admart, a shopper-style free newspaper (circ 62,000 to homes and businesses in York and Wetherby.
National Heritage Sectretary Stephen Dorrell announced yesterday that Sir George Russell has been reappointed as chairman of the ITC for a further two years from 1 January 1995.
Morgan Grampian’s newspaper for family doctors, Pulse, is the best-read medical weekly in the latest JICMARS survey, with a total average issue readership of 74% of all GPs. Pulse has increased its lead over Haymarket’s General Practitioner (AIR down five percentage points at 68%) and Doctor (Reed) up one percentage point at 58%.The best-read monthly… Continue reading Pulse Is Best Read Medical Weekly
The BBC’s Autumn season, at a total cost of £165m, includes 82 hours of new drama and 25 fresh comeday and variety shows.The comedy season includes Dawn French as a vicar in The New Vicar, by the writer of Four Weddings and a Funeral, Timothy Spall is in a Nice Day At The Office with… Continue reading BBC Autumn Season
Arcbuild ’94, readership research of the building industry, has been released. Building, The Builder Group’s title, came out as the best read title out of all the building workers identified, with a total average issue readership of 38%. The survey covers architects, surveyors, engineers, contractors and housebuilders. Second in the survey was Building Design, with… Continue reading Arcbuild ’94 Results
Independent radio group Trans World Communications has revealed pre-tax profits of £1.29m for the 6-months to June 30, an increase of more than 400% from last year’s £0.25m.
The Independent is claiming an increase of 30,000 in sales in its first week at 30p (was 50p).Sources suggest that The Times’ sales dropped marginally – by 5,000 copies,about 1%.
British film Four Weddings And A Funeral has grossed 20m at the UK Box Office, the first British film to do this and only the sixth in history. It is now the second most sucessful film of 1994 behind Mrs Doubtfire. 1. Mrs Doubtfire (12) £20.9M 2. Four Weddings And A Funeral £20.6M 3. Aladdin… Continue reading Four Weddings Breaks £20m
