Tina Gaudoin, editor of Wagadon Publishing’s first women’s title Frank, is to leave the magazine less than a year after it launched in September 1997 (see A Frank New Title For Women). She will continue to work on Frank until the August issue.Gaudoin says that she could not manage the editor’s post as well as… Continue reading Wagadon’s Frank To Lose Editor
7.81 million tuned in to watch the F.A. Cup Final on ITV, with 590,000 watching Sky’s coverage. One of the many big ‘TV sporting occasions’ where the need to refine the BARB method of registering ‘outside the home’ viewing is drawn to our attention once more. Most of the pubs (and indeed viewers in them)… Continue reading TV Viewing Summary W/E 17/05/98
Southern Newspapers has announced the appointment of a group editor and new editors for its two largest daily titles.Mike Woods will become group editor, Newspaper Division, on 29 June. He will become responsible for editorial concerns across 123 titles and will also be involved in the launch of new products. At the same time Ian… Continue reading Southern Newspapers Makes Senior Editorial Appointments
Decaux, the French outdoor advertising group, has said that it will increase its offer to buy UK rival More Group from £475 million to £522 million if its takeover ambitions are cleared by the Monopolies and Mergers Commission (see MMC To Investigate Decaux Bid).Decaux has said that it is confident the MMC investigation will rule… Continue reading Decaux May Up More Bid
ITN Online, at http://www.itn.co.uk/, received almost six million page impressions during March from 153,421 users. This is up from 1.886 million impressions from its last audit in December 1997.ITN Online has also said that it will be moving its online sales operation in-house from June. At the moment ad sales are handled by TSMSi.ABC //electronic:… Continue reading ITN Site Usage Grows
ITV has commissioned a new three-hour Saturday morning entertainment series called SMTV:LIVE, which will begin a 52-week run at the end of August.The new show, which will be presented by Ant & Dec, will comprise a mixture of studio-based entertainment, comedy and music as well as material from outside broadcasts.Commenting on the commission, ITV’s controller… Continue reading ITV To Launch New Saturday Morning Show
Trinity has said that it is no longer in merger negotiations with Mirror Group (see Mirror Shares Jump On Takeover Talk). Whilst the talks were only at an exploratory stage, it is believed that Trinity did not wish to compete with Axel Springer for control of the group.Mirror Group has said that it will make… Continue reading Trinity Pulls Out Of Mirror Talks
The ITC has published a consultation document on local television advertising rules which aims to allow the broadcast of programme-length ads.The ITC wants to use airtime currently allocated for teleshopping to broadcast the ads and the move would not increase the overall amount of commercial airtime available to these local TV services.The move is in… Continue reading ITC Consults On Programme-Length Ads
Contrary to data published in the IPA’s Trends in Television report (see TV Viewing Falls), ITV says that it never set quarterly or even yearly peak time viewing share lead targets over BBC1.According to the IPA, ITV had set a peak time share lead of 6.4% over BBC1 for each quarter up to the year… Continue reading ITV Clarifies Targets
New Woman magazine has claimed the Comag Consumer Magazine of the Year award in this year’s PPA Magazines ’98 Awards. The Emap Elan title was given the award following a dramatic turnaround from falling sales and lack of editorial clarity into an increase in sales of 24% a year and a sharper editorial focus. At… Continue reading New Woman Wins Consumer Mag Of The Year At PPA Awards
