Saatchi & Saatchi chairman, Charlie Scott, is to step down from the company at the end of this year. Scott will be replaced by Saatchi’s current chief executive Bob Seelert, and Kevin Roberts will become chief executive.As a further element to the reshuffle, Wendy Smyth will take up the newly-created role as director of corporate… Continue reading Saatchi Chairman Steps Down As Operating Profits Rise By 22%
Suffolk-based dance station, Vibe FM, is claiming to be the most successful regional radio station to launch under the Radio Authority’s direction over the last four years.The station has achieved a 13% weekly reach in its first RAJAR, for Q2 1998; this represents an average weekly audience of 228,000.Vibe says that its early analysis shows… Continue reading Vibe FM Claims UK’s Most Successful Regional Radio Launch
Cable and telecommunications company Flextech has today applied to the High Court for a Judicial Review of the Independent Television Commission’s (ITC) recent decision to remove minimum carriage requirements for cable and satellite channels (see ITC Confirms End Of Minimum Carriage Requirements).A number of programme producers, including Flextech, Live TV and Universal Studios, have complained… Continue reading Flextech Takes ITC ‘Unbundling’ Move To High Court
Monday Saatchi & Saatchi releases interim financial results today.Tuesday The Ministry of Sound website will be reviewed as the Website Of The Week.Wednesday BSkyB releases full year financial results. Pre-tax profits are expected to be in the region of £280 million, on a turnover of around £1.4 billion.Thursday Cable company Flextech releases interim financial results.Friday… Continue reading The Week Ahead
Border TV has confirmed this afternoon that it has been approached by Scottish Radio Holdings with a takeover offer, and that it has rejected the proposal and is no longer involved in any talks.Border recently maintained that it was in a strong position to remain an independent company (see Border Profits Down To £2m), and… Continue reading Border TV Rebuffs Takeover Approach
Mirror Group today announced that it has terminated the employment of John Mulholland, the editor-to-be of Sporting Life , the daily sports newspaper approaching its launch.Mirror Group issued a blunt statement today which stated that the termination was effective immediately, and when questioned on the reason for Mulholland’s dismissal responded: “His continued presence would further… Continue reading Pre-Launch Editor Fired By Mirror Group
The Jerry Springer Show was one of the primary targets in the ITC Programme Complaints and Intervention Report for the past two months. Originally broadcast late at night, since it was moved to its afternoon slot of 1:30 in March the show has received a total of 86 complaints.Although the programme, frequently described as ‘victim… Continue reading ‘Victim’ Entertainment Comes Under Fire
Channel 5 has quadrupled the power to its transmitter in Croydon, which gives it the same broadcasting reach as its four terrestrial competitors. As a result, it has near doubled its average share of viewing in London.This power surge comes just before the kick-off of a £500,000 press and radio campaign due to start on… Continue reading C5 Gives Itself A Boost
Telewest’s interim results for the quarter ending 30 June this year, released this week, show that pre-tax losses fell £721,000 to £141.6 million, whilst sales rose by 25% to £266 million.Business and residential telephony turnover also displayed significant increases, 41% and 27% respectively. Telewest were unperturbed by a growth of “churn” – the proportion of… Continue reading Telewest Optimistic After Interim Results
The weekly reach of All BBC stations dropped by 0.3% to 26.6 million, whilst All Commercial’s reach increased by 0.5% to 28.6 million.Radio 1 experienced the greatest year on year fall in weekly reach, down 3.2%; its share of listening dropped by 0.2% points to 9.5%. All the other national BBC stations reported gains in… Continue reading Q2 RAJAR 1998 – National Stations
