Profits for Scottish Television for the year ending 31 December 1992 are as follows: Pre-tax profits: £10.1m (£8.6m) Turnover: £126.07m (£114.15m) Programme sales: £23.2m – up 32% Advertising sales: £90.8m – up 3% Final dividend: 8.20p (6.56p)
Editor of Private Eye, Ian Hislop, has announced that he will not host the PPA magazine awards next month due to disputes by RBP journalists.
Former editor of The People, John Blake, will help to produce future issues of Scallywag, the recently expanded satirical magazine. The title went national in February, with a print-run of 110,000.
Cinema Admissions are continuing to show a healthy year-on-year growth, according to the latest figures from the Cinema Advertising Association.The average weekly admissions figure for February’93 was 2.41m, an increase of 9.2% on February’92. February’s main attraction at the box office was Bram Stoker’s Dracula, which took £2.64m within its first 3 days of release… Continue reading Cinema Admissions Continue To Soar
The society for the promotion of new music is set to sponsor Classic FM’s Sunday programme, Contemporary Classics, broadcast every Sunday from 10.00pm to 11.00pm.The radio station, which launched in September, has also recently won the ITV Award for New Product of the Year against Channel Four’s Big Breakfast and Ford Options.
Dailies:Amongst regional daily newspapers only three titles managed to achieve a year on year percentage increase in circulation into double figures. Top of the list came the Kent Messenger title “Kent Today”, which achieved a 23.2% increase (6,186), almost double growth achieved by the second and third placed titles; “Oxford Mail” and “Journal (Newcastle)” with… Continue reading Regional Newspaper Round-Up
The Independent Television Commission today issued its response to the Green Paper on the Future of the BBC. The report advises; Advertising, sponsorship and subscription on the BBC would have serious adverse consequences for the development of commercially-funded television The BBC’s commercial activities should be limited to turning its broadcasting assets to account A “Public… Continue reading ITC Issues Response To Green Paper
.. Michael Jackson has been appointed controller of BBC2, having been head of music and arts for the past two years. He takes over from Alan Yentob who is now controller of BBC1…. Greg Dyke is forecasting that GMTV will move into profit next year, claiming that audiences have increased by 30% to 1.29m since… Continue reading Television News..
The Independent Television Commission today issued its response to the Green Paper on the Future of the BBC. The report advises; Advertising, sponsorship and subscription on the BBC would have serious adverse consequences for the development of commercially-funded television The BBC’s commercial activities should be limited to turning its broadcasting assets to account A “Public… Continue reading ITC Issues Response To Green Paper
Dailies:Amongst regional daily newspapers only three titles managed to achieve a year on year percentage increase in circulation into double figures. Top of the list came the Kent Messenger title “Kent Today”, which achieved a 23.2% increase (6,186), almost double growth achieved by the second and third placed titles; “Oxford Mail” and “Journal (Newcastle)” with… Continue reading Regional Newspaper Round-Up
