The weekly reach of all BBC stations increased by 1.4% this quarter to 26.6 million, a slightly larger increase than all commercial stations, which saw a rise of 1.2% year on year. During the summer period, both Talk Radio and Virgin saw healthy increases in weekly reach, of 11.2 and 18.6 percent respectively.Radio 4 saw… Continue reading Q3 RAJAR 1998 – National Stations
David Arculus, chairman of IPC Magazines, yesterday told the PPA’s annual Magazine Subscriptions conference that subscriptions and an investment in effective database marketing are the future of magazine publishing. “They are an expensive investment, but we must treat them as a valuable asset to our industry,” he said.Arculus pointed out that the subscribers who make… Continue reading IPC Chairman Says Subscriptions And Databases Will Drive Magazine Growth
The Periodical Publishers Association (PPA) is to hold its third Digital Production Conference on 4 November at Grosvenor House. The global impact of digital production on magazine publishing is to be the focus of discussion, and the meeting will be chaired by Martin Bloomfield of Reed Business Information.Other than the main sessions, the conference will… Continue reading PPA Digital Production Conference
The weekly reach of all BBC stations increased by 1.4% this quarter to 26.6 million, a slightly larger increase than all commercial stations, which saw a rise of 1.2% year on year. During the summer period, both Talk Radio and Virgin saw healthy increases in weekly reach, of 11.2 and 18.6 percent respectively.Radio 4 saw… Continue reading Q3 RAJAR – National Stations
The advertising agency Ammirati Puris Lintas has appointed Susanna Hailstone board account director.Hailstone was behind the ‘hello boys’ Wonderbra campaign, and will be working on Lever Europe, Interflora and new business projects at APL. She will report to Chris Thomas, the agency’s chief executive.APL recently lost its chairman in the form of Andrew Cracknell, who… Continue reading APL Acquires New Director
Commercial radio is claiming to have hit its highest ever hours per listener for the summer period, up to 15.1 in these RAJAR figures. Radio listening as a whole, was also up for this quarter by 4%.In the local commercial market London’s Capital 95.8 has turned in strong results with its market-leading share of listening… Continue reading Q3 RAJAR – Local Commercial Stations
Commercial radio is claiming to have hit its highest ever hours per listener for the summer period, up to 15.1 in these RAJAR figures. Radio listening as a whole, was also up for this quarter by 4%.In the local commercial market London’s Capital 95.8 has turned in strong results with its market-leading share of listening… Continue reading Q3 RAJAR – Local Commercial Stations
During the restructuring which took place at CIA Medianetwork earlier in the week (see Newsline), a number of directors were made redundant. These included Jackie Almeida, Richard Britton, and Greg Grimmer.Edward Lloyd Barnes, director of IDK, one of CIA’s subsidaries, and Paul Sumner and Simon Poole also lost their positions.CIA: 0171 803 2296
BBC2’s new drama series The Cops has been attacked by the Police Federation as being a ‘poor reflection’ of life in the force. The programme received its first screening on Monday, and showed officers taking drugs, planting evidence on suspects and using violence.A spokesperson gave the following response to Newsline this afternoon:”We have worked closely… Continue reading BBC Cops Come Under Fire
Chris Smith, culture secretary, has made three new appointments to the radio authority.David Witherow, Sheila Hewitt and Feargal Sharkey are the newcomers to the group, and the appointments will be for 5 years from 1 December 1998.Chris Smith commented:”All three of these people came forward after we advertised for new members of the Radio Authority… Continue reading Appointments At The Radio Authority
