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H Bauer’s Take a Break remains on top of the women’s weekly market, with a total circulation of more than 943,000 copies.The title was down both year on year and period on period, however, by around 6% and 4% respectively.Closer‘s circulation now stands at around 540,000 copies after a period on period upturn of 2.4%,… Continue reading ABC Results Jul-Dec 2008:Take a Break takes women’s weeklies top spot again

News International warned staff yesterday that it plans cut 65 editorial jobs across its four national newspaper titles as part of an efficiency drive.The Sunday Times is set to lose 20 journalist, while the Times, the Sun and the News of the World will each lose 15 editorial staff as a result of the cuts.However,… Continue reading News International to cut 65 jobs

Although the overall trend in the home interest sector was of declining circulations, a couple of titles did manage to show some growth.National Magazine Company’s Coast was up an impressive 14.7% year on year according to the ABC figures for July to December, taking its circulation to more than 42,000 copies.Country Homes & Interiors, published… Continue reading ABC Results Jul-Dec 2008:Coast makes waves in the home interest sector

More evidence has emerged of changing viewing habits among younger viewers, with one in six of all viewers of Channel 4 show Skins watching the programme online.The third series’ debut episode was watched by 1.35 million on E4 when it aired on January 22, with 283,000 watching it online – meaning that 17.3 per cent… Continue reading Skins shows popularity of online TV among younger viewers

All of the titles in the TV Listing Magazines sector have seen year on year circulation declines in the latest ABC release for July to December 2008.However, three of the titles enjoyed period on period rises, including BBC Worldwide’s Radio Times (1.4%), H Bauer’s Total TV Guide (1%) and IPCs TV Times (1.9%).TV Choice remains… Continue reading ABC Results July-Dec 2008:All TV listing titles see circulation declines again this period

Condé Nast’s handbag sized Glamour magazine remains top of the women’s monthly sector in the latest ABC release, for July to December 2008, despite seeing a slight dip of 0.4% year on year, taking it to just below 550,000 copies.However, the new John Lewis in-store free magazine, Source, by John Brown Group, isn’t far behind,… Continue reading ABC Results July-Dec 2008:Glamour stays on top of the women’s monthly sector

It was a hard six months for the teen magazine sector, although some titles managed to weather the storm better than others.Hachette Filipacchi’s Sugar was top of the sector with a total circulation of over 153,500 copies.However, it was down year on year by around 2.5% and period on period by around 3% according to… Continue reading ABC Results Jul-Dec 2008:Tough times for teen magazines

Communications Minister Lord Carter has confirmed that a potential tie-up between Channel 4 and Five “is not off the table”.Speaking to the House of Lords Communications Committee today, Carter revealed that a number of commercial companies have approached the Government with ideas about creating a new public service broadcaster to rival the BBC.Last month, Carter… Continue reading Lord Carter: C4/Five tie-up is still possible

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation pushed Five up in the TV ratings war last night – 3 million viewers put the broadcaster ahead of rivals ITV1, Channel 4 and BBC Two during the all-important 9pm to 10pm peak slot.More than 3.1 million peak viewers tuned in to see the first of three episodes, which ran back-to-back… Continue reading CSI pushes Five up in the ratings

Ahead of the much-anticipated ABC Consumer Magazines data release tomorrow, NewsLine wonders what the future holds for consumer magazines.In the last few months alone, we’ve seen Dennis launch one magazine but close another (see Dennis launches new poker magazine), Exchange & Mart migrate to a digital-only format amid falling circulation figures (see Exchange & Mart… Continue reading The future of consumer magazines