RevenueWhen pitched against a UK display advertising growth of 7.4% between January and September 1998 (according to Advertising Association (AA) figures*), ITV’s 4.8% growth in revenue to £1.76 billion does not look too healthy. The same AA Quarterly Survey shows that revenue for the TV industry was up by 7.4% in this nine month period.… Continue reading TV Annual Round-Up – 1998
The Guardian Media Group (GMG) and the Scottish Media Group (SMG) are to review their ownership stakes in breakfast television station GMTV. The two parties are understood to have approached Schroders, the investment bank, in the hope of soliciting offers for the stakes.SMG owns 20% of GMTV and Guardian Media holds a 15% stake. The… Continue reading GMTV Shareholders To Review Stakes
A TV Round-Up for 1998 is now available to subscribers in the Television features list. Data for revenue, costs per thousands, impacts and viewing share are analysed across the whole year.Subscribers can access the Television database by selecting “Television” from the drop-down box at the top of this page.
Channel Four admitted yesterday that a documentary which it broadcast in September 1997, about male prostitutes, was, in parts, a fake. The broadcaster announced that it is imposing an indefinite ban on the producer of the programme, Maire Devine, after footage in the documentary was found to be fake. Allegations about the documentary were intially… Continue reading Channel Four Documentray Found To Be A Fraud
They seek them here, they seek them there. The BBC seek viewers everywhere. Which is probably why they thought they were onto a winner with the latest adaption of The Scarlet Pimpernel. The first episode pulled in a fairly impressive 8.34 million viewers, although ITV’s London’s Burning was watched by 10.81 million.Elsewhere the lynchpin of… Continue reading TV Viewing Summary W/E 24/01/99
Following Wednesday’s share surge (see Sharewatch), the Daily Mail & General Trust yesterday fell back by 200p to close at 3,253p. Chrysalis continued to rise after good RAJAR results for its Galaxy stations were announced yesterday (see Q4 RAJAR – Local Commercial Stations): Chrysalis shares closed at 702˝p yesterday, up by 37˝p on the previous… Continue reading Sharewatch
The weekly reach of All BBC stations rose by 0.6% to 26.73 million in Q4 1998, according to this afternoon’s RAJAR data release. This compares to All Commercial’s weekly reach increase of 0.2% to 28.45 million. Whilst BBC Network Radio saw a 0.9% rise in its weekly reach (23.15m), All National Commercial radio fell by… Continue reading Q4 1998 RAJAR – National Stations
In this quarter’s RAJAR data it is the local commercial radio stations which have staved off what could have been a poor showing by the commercial sector as whole. Where national commercial stations lost 4.9% of their weekly reach and their share of listening fell from 10.0% to 9.3%, the local stations pushed their reach… Continue reading Q4 RAJAR – Local Commercial Stations (Subscribers)
Q4 RAJAR figures, released this afternoon, show that whilst overall radio listening has remained pretty static year on year (up by just 0.2% to give an average weekly reach of 40.32 million listeners), national commercial weekly reach has slipped slightly, down by 4.9% to 11.18 million (23%). All commercial radio, however, made a very slight… Continue reading Q4 Rajar Summary – BBC Closes In On Commercial’s Share Of Listening
The Q4 RAJAR figures released today have thrown up a rather mixed batch of results in the London Stations sector, showing some sharp increases in weekly reach, but also some substantial falls. Choice FM showed the largest proportional rise in weekly reach, rising 27.9%, taking its total weekly reach up to 261,000.London Stations RAJAR Q4… Continue reading Q4 RAJAR 1998 – London Stations
