Cable & Wireless, the global group which owns Cable & Wireless Communications, has seen half-year pre-tax profits jump 52% to £1.12 billion. Turnover jumped 15% to £3.38 billion.The biggest problem for the group at the moment is the current turmoil in the Asian stock markets which has raised question marks over C&W’s Hong Kong operation:… Continue reading Cable Company Profits Grow
Carlton Food Network is to extend its transmission hours by beginning broadcasts at 9.00am from 5 January. This represents an extra three hours a day, with the channel broadcasting from 9 to 5. The Network will open the day with Food Network Daily.Carlton Food Network: 0171 432 9000
The Cinema Advertising Association (CAA) has announced ‘wide ranging’ changes to its annual CAVIAR (Cinema and Video Industry Audience Research) survey. Representatives from the film and advertising industries contributed to the redesign process run by BMRB International. The changes to CAVIAR include: talking to children as young as four to understand their impressions of cinema… Continue reading CAA Redesigns Cinema Audience Research
Sky Television has today announced that its new pay-per view movie service will begin broadcasting on Sky Box Office on 1 December.The channel will show a choice of around ten recent movie releases each month from a number of film studios, including Buena Vista International Television, Paramountm Polygram, Twentieth Century Fox and Warner Bros. Negotiations… Continue reading Sky Announces PPV Movie Details
Carlton Food Network and Carlton Select have each registered an average 1% share of viewing, according to recent BARB figures released by Carlton Select. The figures come from the new BARB panel which has begun measuring a number of cable-only channels for the first time (subscribers see BARB Begins Cable Measurement).Of adults who are able… Continue reading Carlton Cable Channels Have 1% Viewing Share
MSM will close its doors on 28 November and begin trading as the newly formed Capital Advertising on 1 December. The new sales outfit will be based at Capital Radio’s Leicester Square headquarters.As part of its launch plans, the company will be launching three new initiatives to the market which will allow campaigns to be… Continue reading Capital Advertising To Launch With New Packages
The Newspaper Society has announced that Newstech, the UK exhibition and conference for the newspaper industry, has been acquired by IIR Exhibitions.The Society, which set Newstech up in 1970, says that it will maintain its long-term involvement in the exhibition’s development.The next Newstech will take place, as scheduled, in April 1999, when it will be… Continue reading Newspaper Society Offloads Exhibitions Group
The October Retail Prices Index was announced this morning as 159.5, an increase of 0.1% on the previous month and a rise of 3.7% on October 1996.Subscribers can access RPI trends by selecting “Encyclomedia” from the drop-down box at the top of this page.
Over one third (38%) of 15-34 year olds claim they are more likely to tune-in to the Virgin Radio breakfast show since Chris Evans joined, according to CIA MediaLab’s latest Sensor survey. However, 15% of the same age group felt that Evans would put them off listening.Zoe Ball does not seem to have the same… Continue reading Evans Is Beating Ball For Breakfast
A second meeting between Minister of Public Health Tessa Jowell and top magazine publishers (subscribers see Government Affirms Tobacco Advertising Ban) has led to further discussion of the possibility of exempting business titles from the Government’s proposed tobacco advertising ban.As part of its anti-drugs and awareness campaign, the Government has already run ads in women’s… Continue reading Business Titles May Be Exempted From Tobacco Ad Ban
