According to agency estimates total terrestrial TV revenue for September came in at £212.54 million. Of this ITV brought in £156.71m and C4 £46.8m.There were relatively substantial year on year losses in impacts across all categories for ITV/C4 in September. Men was the audience hardest hit, with a drop of 7.5% while the category to… Continue reading TV Round-Up – September
Following yesterday’s dramatic fall for the worse in the world’s stock market, traders around the world were bracing themselves for even worse this morning. As expected the crash went global and at one stage this morning more than £76 billion was knocked of British equities. London’s FT-SE index fell steeply first thing this morning hitting… Continue reading FT-SE’s Rocky Ride
Chief executive of Capital Radio, David Mansfield, has appointed Sally Oldham as Capital’s first managing director of group radio. She moves from the post of regional operations director where she was responsible for Capital’s stations in Hampshire, Sussex, Kent and Birmingham. Oldham will now also have responsibility for the London market as well as Capital’s… Continue reading Capital Appoints First Managing Director For Radio
VNU has revamped its magnet Website and rechristened it vnunet.com. The move is aimed at increasing the emphasis on VNU as a brand rather than a group of magazines. Instead of a page of magazine logos, the new site will feature the “prime” stories from each of the 16 publications.…VNU has also launched Jobworld, an… Continue reading VNU Revamps Web Sites
Reed Elsevier has just confirmed that it has put its IPC Magazines division up for sale. IPC publishes over 70 consumer titles, including Loaded , Womans Own and TV Times , and it had been rumoured for some time that Reed was looking to off-load the group so that it could concentrate on its professional… Continue reading Reed Confirms IPC Sell-Off
BBC Family Life is yet another magazine targeted at ABC1 women. However, it claims to be the first magazine to reflect all aspects of family life and is aimed towards the younger mother with primary school aged children. The magazine is broken into various different sections including the ‘usuals’ such as family health, food, education,… Continue reading First Issue Review – BBC Family Life
The Hong Kong stock market crisis last week hit Cable & Wireless hard as the telecommunications company has a substantial interest in the region. On Tuesday its price fell 16 to 517p, dropped 27p on Wednesday to reach 490p and then a further 17p on Thursday.The Mirror Group initially rose 5 to 219.5p on Tuesday… Continue reading Sharewatch W/E 24/10/97
Monday Cable and satellite channel UK Living changes its name today to become simply Living as part of a general revamp.Reviews of BBC Family Life and Beautiful Living will appear on Newsline.Thursday Future publishing are expected to launch No Limits World, a 132-page sporting title.TeleWest announce third quarter financial results.Saturday The BBC/Flextech channels, under the… Continue reading The Week Ahead
