The Guardian and Observer newspapers have sent a letter to Independent readers which offers free and discounted copies of their newspapers for a limited period.Despite joining with the Independent in criticising Rupert Murdoch’s cut-price Times, the Guardian newspapers have infuriated Rosie Boycott, editor in chief of both Independent titles, with the offer.She has written a… Continue reading Guardian And Observer Attempt To Woo Indy Readers
Commercial radio reached its highest ever quarter ad revenue in Quarter 4 1997 with a figure of £100m, which is a growth of 15.3% year on year. This means that commercial radio’s quarterly share of the advertising market has broken the 5% barrier for the first time.This puts the total radio revenue for the full… Continue reading Radio Revenue Reaches £100m For Q4
The Independent On Sunday recorded a long-awaited year on year increase in its August-January ’98 ABC figure with sales improving by 1.1%, while the FT performed very well, with a sales increase of 11%. It was again the tabloid market which saw the biggest falls, with both Mirror titles experiencing sales drops of over 7%… Continue reading National Newspaper ABC Summary – January
Total terrestrial TV revenue came in at £184.44 million in January, according to agency estimates. Of this ITV earned £130.21m (up 1.6% year on year), C4 earned £39.55m (up 2.7%) and GMTV brought in £4.8m (down 13.5%). C5’s revenue appears pretty static with a figure of £9.8m.January ITV Franchise Revenue Share Comparisons Jan-97 Jan-98… Continue reading TV Revenue – January
The scene in Coronation Street when Les Battersby accidentally ran a turkey over proved too much for a number of viewers who complained to the ITC that the scene was “in poor taste, especially at Christmas time.”The ITC, however, considered the scene to be justified by the comic context and by its brevity: all that… Continue reading Turkey Lovers Complain To ITC
The most striking aspect of the new Sunday Business is how it is so different from its predecessor and so much like the FT. Obviously the pink paper has a lot to answer for, but bigger, bolder headlines and text and a more restricted use of colour photos give the impression that this is a… Continue reading First Issue Review – The ‘New’ Sunday Business
IPC Magazines’ chief executive Mike Matthew has announced the appointments of managing directors Sylvia Auton and Andy McDuff to the Board with immediate effect. Both have worked at the company since 1977.Auton has worked on a number of titles including Country Life and Horse & Hound. She was publisher of New Science and became publishing… Continue reading IPC Appoints Board Members
John Brown Publishing’s Bizarre magazine will be going monthly after April. The move is prompted by the title’s July-December ABC figure, released on Friday, which showed sales of 71,782.As a result of the move Bizarre has taken on three more journalists and doubled the size of its sales team. Associate publisher Lynda Wheeler said: “Sales… Continue reading Bizarre To Go Monthly
MTV is claiming that it is the second most popular cable and satellite broadcaster in Ireland, after new research by Irish Marketing Surveys.The results, based on telephone interviews amongst 16-34 year olds in the Dublin area who receive the channel, revealed that 65% tuned into the channel every day while 93% tune into MTV in… Continue reading MTV Claims Irish Success
July-December 1997 consumer magazine ABC reports are now available to subscribers in the Press features list of Newsline. The data is also available in Press Planner.
