Emap Radio has made two key senior appointments. Adam Turner has been appointed to the newly created position of business director for music at Emap On Air, and Mark Hassall becomes commercial director for Magic FM and Kiss FM .Adam Turner was previously commercial director for Kiss, and Mark Hassall has worked with Emap On… Continue reading New Appointments At Emap Radio
With a great deal of hype surrounding the programme it should come as no surprise that Geri, the year long fly-on-the-wall documentary about former Spice Girl Geri Halliwell, should end up being Channel 4’s number one rated programme. 4.37 million viewers tuned in to see ex-Ginger- now bland Spice – drone on about how miserable… Continue reading TV Viewing Summary W/E 09/05/99
Scottish Radio Holdings (SRH) enjoyed a rise in its share price yesterday, gaining 27˝p to 807˝p. On Wednesday, SRH gave issued a positive set of results (see Newsline).Emap climbed 43p to 1323p. Speculation over the possibility of publisher Wagadon going up for sale see (Newsline) today implicated Emap as an interested party .Flextech fell 50˝p… Continue reading Sharewatch
The former editor of the Sunday Express and Sunday Mirror, Eve Pollard, is forming a new publishing company with intent to launch a series of new consumer titles. The new company, called Parkhill Publications, is being backed by venture capitalists Phildrew Ventures, and a range of fresh titles are expected to launch within the next… Continue reading Pollard To Launch New Consumer Publishing Venture
Scottish Radio Holdings (SRH) climbed an impressive 52˝p to 780p yesterday after reporting a 15% rise in turnover in its 6-monthly financial report (see Newsline). By 10am today, SRH had risen a further 25p to 805p.Johnston Press, which has agreed a takeover bid of £266 million for the newspaper group Portsmouth & Sunderland (PSN), remained… Continue reading Sharewatch
Total terrestrial revenue for April 1999 (including GMTV) according to agency estimates was £233.02 million. ITV’s total revenue was £161.5 million, a 2.4% drop since the same time last year. Channel 4’s revenue remained nearly stable at £50.77 million for April 1999 (April 1998: £50.79 million), and Channel 5’s total revenue grew by 22.6% year… Continue reading TV Revenue – April 1999
The Independent Television Commission (ITC) has upheld a complaint against a programme on Sky One called Bloody Foreigners. In its Programme Complaints and Interventions Report for April this year, a complainant pointed out that in one scene, the programme, which was about Germans, caught sexual intercourse taking place in the background of an interview.The programme… Continue reading Sky In Trouble With ITC For Foreign Sex Blunder
Following the departure of chief executive Mark Booth and non-executive director (former chief executive) Sam Chisholm from BSkyB, director of promotions and publicity Raymond Jaffe is also leaving the broadcasting group. Jaffe is to launch his own agency called the Promotions Factory. The first ABC//electronic audit for www.Timeout.com for the period 1 February to 3… Continue reading Newsline Brief
Felix Dennis, chairman of the business and consumer magazine company Dennis Publishing, has warned that the golden age of magazine publishing is over and that its already shaky foundations are crumbling fast in the face of the electronic age.Quoting Bob Dylan at the PPA Magazines ’99 conference yesterday, Dennis said that ‘it is a hard… Continue reading Dennis Publishing Chairman Sees Magazine Industry Crumbling In The Electronic Age
Total terrestrial revenue for April 1999 (including GMTV) according to agency estimates was £233.02 million. ITV’s total revenue dropped by 2.4% year on year, and Channel 4’s revenue remained fairly stable April 1999. Channel 5’s total revenue grew by 22.6% year on year.GMTV suffered a 9.5% drop in revenue.LWT increased its share of revenue the… Continue reading TV Revenue – April 1999
