Eighteen viewers complained to the Independent Television Commission (ITC) about a clip of The Jerry Springer Show on Tarrant On TV which showed a man whose obesity was so great he was unable to move unaided.The clip was ostensibly included to show the lowering standards of taste and decency in other countries’ programmes but complainants,… Continue reading Tarrant On TV Receives Complaints About Obesity Clip
NTL has secured a double deal, costing a total of £1.2 billion, to buy two of its UK cable rivals, ComTel and Diamond Cable. ComTel, which operates cable services in the Midlands and South-East has been acquired for £550 million. Diamond Cable, operating in the Leicester and Nottingham areas, sold for £630 million.ComTel has around… Continue reading NTL’s £1.2bn Acquisitions Further UK Cable Industry Consolidation
It is understood that the deputy managing director of MindShare, Mike Wood, is leaving the company to join Portland Outdoor. This news comes before MindShare has even officially opened for business.In April this year MindShare appointed Simon Rees as managing director (see MindShare Appoints Managing Director), above Wood who has been at JWT for 15… Continue reading MindShare Deputy MD Leaves Before The Business Opens
Emap Radio have linked up with Capital Radio to discuss a possible local digital licence bid. September this year will see licences in the Manchester, Birmingham and Greater London areas being made available by the Radio Authority (RA).This venture will be seen as a cautious move by both companies, after Capital recently declined the opportunity… Continue reading Emap Radio’s Local Licence Masterplan
Quality Market The overall drop in circulation for the quality market continues for this period with total broadsheet circulation down 1.6% to 5.7 million copies for December ’97 – May ’98. Again The Independent suffered the most severe fall year on year – down 13.93% to 220,000 copies. The paper itself shrewdly chose to compare… Continue reading National Newspaper Round-Up – May 1998
The Internet’s promise of being a one-to-one targeting medium is still several years off, according to Jupiter’s latest analyst report, Targeted Media: Reality Check On the Road to One-to-One Marketing.Evan Neufeld, online advertising analyst, says the high infrastructure costs of online databases in addition to limited advertiser demand are the biggest limits. However, publishers that… Continue reading Internet Advertisers Must Narrow-Focus, Says Survey
The May Retail Prices Index was announced this morning as 163.5, an increase of 0.6% on the previous month and a rise of 4.2% on May 1997.Subscribers can access RPI trends by selecting “Encyclomedia” from the drop-down box at the top of this page.
The Dialog Corporation has announced that its executive vice president Jeffrey Galt has resigned. Galt was also formerly the president of Knight-Ridder Information, the company which merged with MAID to create Dialog (see Maid Acquisition To Go Ahead).Galt is also relinquishing his position on Dialog’s Board with effect from 26 June 1998. Of this move… Continue reading Dialog Executive Vice President Resigns
Advertising expenditure in the UK amounted to £13.14 billion in 1997 according to figures released by the Advertising Association (AA) today. This represents an increase of 6% year on year in real terms.This is the sixth consecutive year of increase in ad spend at constant prices since a two-year decline in 1990 and 1991. All… Continue reading UK Ad Spend Reaches All Time Record: £13.1bn
GWR Group today announced an increase in annual pre-tax profits of 18% to £14.1 million. Turnover at the Group was up 30% to £73.8 million for the year ending 31 March 1998.Chairman Henry Meakin said he is confident that radio advertising will grow by a further 13% in 1998.“Despite weakness in some local markets in… Continue reading GWR Reports Pre-Tax Profits Of £14.1m
