Northcliffe Newspapers, the regional newspaper publishing group, has released the results of an NOP research survey which examines its Exeter Express & Echo and Torquay Herald Express titles.It claims that the Express & Echo now reaches an average daily audience of 93,000 or 44% of adults in the area while 35,000 adults in the area… Continue reading Northcliffe Publishes Research On Westcountry Publications
The May Retail Price Index was announced this morning as 156.9, an increase of 0.4% on April and a rise of 2.6% on May 1996.
The Economist‘s new subscription-based Website will launch tomorrow at 7am London time. The site, at http://www.economist.com/, will charge $48 (£29) for access to all of the articles which appear in the printed version. A selection of content will still be made available free of charge.Subscribers to the printed-version will get the full on-line version free… Continue reading Economist To Launch New Website
Daily Mail and General Trust today announced pre-tax profits of £65.6m for the six months to 30th March 1997, up 60% from £41m the previous year. Turnover rose from £476.6m to £545m.In its newspapers division, Associated Newspapers, there was some pre-Christmas display ad weakness though classified ads remained strong. Northcliffe had a good year due… Continue reading Daily Mail Group Shows Good Profits
The IPA has come out in support of the ISBA proposal to the ITC for an increase in advertising minutage *ISBA Calls For More Ad Time. The IPA supports a move to permit an additional half minute of advertising, making 8 minutes average peak and 7.5 minutes average total.If this proposal was approved by the… Continue reading The IPA Joins ISBA’s Extra Minutage Campaign
The broadband cable universe has risen by over half a million homes, an increase of 45% since January 1996, according to the latest Cable Audience Television survey.CATV III, carried out by RSMB on behalf of the cable industry and the ITC, reveals that in March 1997 there were 1.92 million cable TV Homes with 5.7… Continue reading Cable Universe Grows By 45%
At this year’s European Advertising Effectiveness Symposium in Paris on the 26th-27th of this month, John Philip Jones of the University of Syracuse will present accounts of two important developments in the US which could have significant implications for the European advertising industry.Jones claims that studies conducted in the States indicate that the waste of… Continue reading John Philip Jones Set To Cause Stir At Conference
Radio group GWR this morning announced financial results for the year ended 31 March 1997 which show that pre-tax profit has risen from £5.5m to £11.9m. Turnover increased from £39.1m to £63.8m.The group also announced that it would be selling its St Albans radio station to Essex Radio and that it would be setting up… Continue reading GWR Hits £11m Profit
Gerry Robinson, chairman of Granada, confirmed today that the group has made a successful bid for Yorkshire Tyne Tees television. The move has been expected for months; Granada chose to act now because the two companies have reached agreement on the price, set at £525 million or £11.75 a share. The deal has been agreed… Continue reading Granada Swallows Yorkshire
CIA UK Holdings is rumoured to be about to buy the 50% of Morgan CIA it does not already own from the Morgan Partnership.According to Marketing, CIA wants to buy outright the jointly-owned Scottish media shop to form a CIA Medianetwork Scotland agency. CIA Morgan is currently the second largest media independent in Scotland behind… Continue reading CIA Bid For Morgan Rumoured
