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Revenue Agency estimates for September 1998 put total terrestrial TV ad revenue (including GMTV) at £225.62 million. Year on year all the channels have shown an increase in revenue.ITV’s total revenue was up by 4.4% to £163.6 million, C4’s rose by 5.3% to £49.3 million and C5’s revenue was £12.7 million – a rise of… Continue reading TV Round-Up – September 1998
Almost three quarters of the population would like ITV to leave the News At Ten in its current slot, according to a new Gallup survey conducted on behalf of Pace Microtechnology.The Independent Television Commission (ITC) is currently considering ITV’s contentious proposals to shake up its evening schedule (see ITC Reacts To ITV’s Proposal). The planned… Continue reading News At Ten Is ‘Sacred’, Finds Survey
Monday A first issue review of NatMags’ new men’s health and fitness title, ZM, will be available on Newsline.Wednesday NRS data for September is released. A look at the readerships of the national newspapers will be available on Newsline.Friday BSkyB is to hold a its annual general meeting and will release first quarter financial results… Continue reading The Week Ahead
ZM – Front Cover“Pile driver, rod, master of ceremonies, magic twanger, little general, John Thomas, third leg, upright citizen, pud, quarter master, coral branch, dangus and… wait for it… gap stopper.” Oh yes, NatMags’ ZM has adorned the first twenty pages of its first issue with as many willy-words as the editorial team and a… Continue reading First Issue Review – ZM
Dennis Publishing’s Maxim has poached Chris Maillard, managing editor at Top Gear, to become the magazine’s new editor. Maillard will join next month, and fills the space left by previous editor, Nigel Ambrose, who left recently for ‘personal reasons’.In the latest set of consumer magazine ABCs, Maxim reported the strongest relative growth in the men’s… Continue reading Top Gear Editor Moves To Maxim
The ITC has decided that Channel One Liverpool and the Performance Channel should be exempted from the prohibition on minimum carriage requirements (MCRs) for the duration of their current contracts.In June the ITC removed MCRs for existing analogue cable and satellite channels by 1 January 2000, with the exception of those channels already restricting themselves… Continue reading Channel One And Performance Exempt From MCR Removal
ITV2, ITV’s digital network to be launched in December (see Newsline), has awarded a third of its programme commissions to independents. ITV are believed to be ‘furious’ at this decision – the group is footing the bill for the digital service and had hoped to maximise its commissions in order to recoup start-up costs. S4C… Continue reading Newsline Brief
BSkyB is planning to offer a slashed rate cable company ratecard in an attempt to encourage operators to buy more of its premium packages.Elizabeth Murdoch, managing director of Sky Networks, made the announcement at the European Cable Communications Conference this week. The Office Of Fair Trading is in the process of considering the new rate-card,… Continue reading Sky To Cooperate With Cable Companies
Gerald Kaufman, the chairman of the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee, yesterday attacked ITV executives by claiming that plans to move the News At Ten are based on a ‘hope or hunch’ that it may yield more viewers.This criticism furthers Kaufman’s public opposition to ITV’s planned schedule re-shake (see ITV’s News At Ten Move… Continue reading News At Ten Move ‘Based On Hunch’, Says MP