16.53 million viewers tuned into see if Courtney Mitchell had Grant’s muscles or Tony’s beer belly, this was enough to ensure that Eastenders took pole position in the top 30.Britain’s two favourite soaps dominated the top 10 once again this week, but Robson Green managed to breakthrough the soap monopoly, taking his show Touching Evil… Continue reading TV Viewing Summary – W/E 4/05/97
The National Heritage Secretary Chris Smith has said that he will be carrying out a review of the BBC’s internal structure to ascertain whether the Corporation was functioning as efficiently as it could.Speaking on Radio 4’s Mediumwave programme Mr Smith expressed concern that the reforms introduced by John Birt, the BBC’s director general, last year… Continue reading Smith Announces Review Of BBC And Changes To Lottery
The City was not impressed by Capital’s move on Tuesday to buy Virgin Radio for £64.7m. The London radio group’s share price initially fell 6p to 539p and then dropped throughout the week to finish at 531.5p on Friday.BSkyB also had a busy week. On Wednesday it announced both an increase of 21% in profits… Continue reading Sharewatch – W/E 9/05/97
Capital Radio’s Website is currently being audited by both the ABC and the BPA and will be publishing an audit for May in either June or July.Julian Hardy, of the Capital Radio New Media department, told Newsline that the reason for the dual auditing approach was the size and complexity of its Website’s user logs.… Continue reading Capital Website In Process Of Joint Audit
Newsline will be reporting from tonight’s Media Guardian event. Has Channel 5 Come Alive? is the subject under debate. David Elstein and Dawn Airey will be cross questioned by the industry. A full report will be on Newsline tomorrow morning.Cable and Wireless’s year end figures are due on Wednesday; this will include the results of… Continue reading The Week Ahead
Among the quality titles, The Telegraph has managed to maintain its position at the top of the league. It has increased its sales to 1136,857. The Times has suffered a massive drop month-on-month losing 27,791 in sales: a spokesman for the paper said that this was a result of a loss of sales over Easter.… Continue reading National Press Round-Up – April
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MAGtrack, the media research company, has found that full colour ads are 19% more effective than mono ads. MAGtrack’s research found clearly identifiable patterns in the effectiveness of advertisements in relation to their size and placement within publications.60% of respondents recall seeing DPSs, compared to 45% for single pages. Full colour ads averaged a 47%… Continue reading Colour Outdoes Mono
The Radio Authority is inviting comments from interested parties on the public interest considerations which apply in regards to First Oxfordshire Radio Company Ltd’s proposed acquisition of Mix 96 .First Oxfordshire Radio owns Fox FM which broadcasts in Oxford and Banbury. Mix 96, also broadcasts on FM, is currently owned by Bucks Broadcasting Ltd and… Continue reading Radio Mix Up
European digital television service providers will share an $11 billion market by 2002 according to a new report from strategic business analysts Datamonitor. This coincides with news of BSkyB’s joint digital venture with BT (see yesterday’s Newsline).The report suggests that there will be almost 20 million digital TV households in Europe by 2002, compared with… Continue reading Euro Digital TV Set To Become Billion Dollar Industry
