First Choice, the new radio sales house set up in November (Newsline 18/11) has announced the 12 radio stations for which it is selling from now onwards: Minster FM (York) Yorkshire Post Radio Wear FM (Sunderland) Radio Wave (Blackpool) Mellow 1557 (Frinton) RTM (Thamesmead) 1170 (High Wycombe) Sunshine 855 (Ludlow) Radio Ceredigion (Aberystwyth) Radio Maldwyn… Continue reading Radio Sales House Details
The combined ITV/C4 revenue figure came in at £171.23m, a 2.3% increase on the same month last year. The individual revenues for ITV and C4 were £139.6m and £32.07m respectively. This is a 81:19 split; an improvement for C4 by one point on last month. These revenue figures are the second best this year after… Continue reading TV ROUND-UP – NOVEMBER
The Morgan Partnership (Glasgow) has made a dozen redundancies including the Media Director Marc Fincham. The media department has been reduced by 50% in the last month.
Laser Sales has issued a combined London Weekend Television and Yorkshire -Tyne Tees Television ratecard, which will be effective from January 1st 1994. The move, which standardises the ratecards for the two areas, adds strength to LWT’s attempts to fend off the Granada bid.Standard rates for LWT in 1994 will not increase, remaining at £25,000… Continue reading Joint Ratecard Issued For LWT/YTTV
The Government yesterday approved the takeover of Thames Valley Newspapers by the Guardian Media Group, which had been investigated by the Monopolies and Mergers Commission. Thames Valley Newspapers, a division of Thomson Regional Newspapers, publishes the Reading Evening Post, a weekly paid-for title and free weeklies in Reading Wokingham and Bracknell, Berkshire.The deal increases GMG’s… Continue reading Newspaper Takeover Approved
The ITC yesterday published guidelines about the interpretation of its Programme and Sponsorship Codes with regard to television coverage of the National Lottery.In principle the ITC has no objection to the National Lottery being advert- ised, although some technical amendment will be required. The ITC also has no objection to shows screening National Lottery draws.… Continue reading ITV Clear To Bid For Lottery Show
At the board meeting of Newspaper Publishing, owner of the Independent papers held yesterday, staff were told that there would not be any cuts in the editorial budget. Patrick Morrison, chief executive, had argued for cuts of £8 million.This means that the papers will have to look to an outside group for survival The most… Continue reading Independent Spared Editorial Cuts
British Sky Broadcasting has made its first £50m payment to its shareholders. The payment was the first return on a total of £1.6bn invested in the project so far. Operating profit had reached £3m a week by the end of November, but the figure for the full half year is not yet released. Richard Brooke,… Continue reading BSkyB Subscription Move A Success
British Sky Broadcasting has made its first £50m payment to its shareholders. The payment was the first return on a total of £1.6bn invested in the project so far. Operating profit had reached £3m a week by the end of November, but the figure for the full half year is not yet released. Richard Brooke,… Continue reading BSkyB Subscription Move A Success
At the board meeting of Newspaper Publishing, owner of the Independent papers held yesterday, staff were told that there would not be any cuts in the editorial budget. Patrick Morrison, chief executive, had argued for cuts of £8 million.This means that the papers will have to look to an outside group for survival The most… Continue reading Independent Spared Editorial Cuts
