The Radio Authority has awarded the new small-scale licence on the FM waveband for Wolverhampton to: 107.7 The Wolf . The Wolf, owned by Wolverhampton Area Radio Ltd, promises to provide a lively full service of local news, information, music and entertainment, dedicated to the specific needs of the community.The licence is being offered for… Continue reading Radio Goes To The Wolves
Nynex CableComms, one of the UK’s largest cable operators, has announced that it has started carrying Channel 5 to all of its franchise areas. This will enable those people who receive a poor terrestrial C5 signal to view the channel via their cable subscription without interference. Those people who are not cable subscribers will have… Continue reading Nynex To Carry C5 To All Franchises
Johnston Press this morning announced results for the year ended 31 December which show turnover increasing 61% to £165 million while pre-tax profits grew by 43% to £24.1m.Overall, ad revenues were 6% ahead of the previous year, with jobs advertising the strongest performing category. Fred Johnston, chairman of the group, said: “Trading conditions in the… Continue reading Johnston Announces Record Results
C5’s share of peaktime viewing fell from 5.8% on its opening night to 2.7% on Monday evening, according to unofficial estimates. Family Affairs put in a modest performance on Sunday, with 1.5 million viewers, but this fell to around 300,000 the next night. The biggest audience for Monday evening was for the Helen Mirren film… Continue reading C5 Viewing Plummets
A special edition of Observer editor Will Hutton’s forthcoming book will be free to every reader of the paper in April.The State To Come will be cover-mounted to the paper on three consecutive weeks starting on April 6 in London, the South East and Scotland. The promotion will be supported by a national advertising campaign… Continue reading Free Book For Observer Readers
The latest Television report from Zenith Media predicts that pay-TV will account for 17% of all viewing by the end of 2001, the year it expects pay revenues to overtake advertising at £3.5 billion and £3.4 billion respectively in today’s prices.Other parts of the report state: free-to-air television will be “very much alive and well”,… Continue reading Zenith Say Pay-TV Will Outstrip Ad Revenue By 2001
After much speculation *New Rank For Carlton, Carlton Communications has confirmed that it has bought Rank Film Distributors Ltd, the UK’s largest film distributor.The deal, which cost Carlton £65 million, gives Carlton access to 740 feature films in the Rank library, the largest independent film library in the UK. The library spans over sixty years… Continue reading Carlton Buys Rank
Prior to the launch of Channel 5, Newsline interviewed several key players in advertising to discover what the general feeling was towards the new channel *ISBA Wishes Channel 5 Success. Now that Five has gone live, Newsline has gone back to the industry to find out what it thinks about the final result.Andrew Canter, group… Continue reading Channel 5 – What The Industry Thinks
Negotiations aimed at screening the first live television debate between the leaders of the main political parties appear to be faltering, as each party made conditions which were unacceptable to the others.While both ITV and the BBC are keen to broadcast such a debate, it is looking increasingly unlikely that it will take place. Talks… Continue reading TV Leadership Debate Falters
The Radio Authority has announced that, having received assurances from Border Television plc about its proposed acquisition of Sun City Radio Ltd, it has decided that the company’s ownership of this licence could not be expected to operate against the public interest. In particular, Border Television guaranteed that it would safe-guard the separate news operation… Continue reading The Radio Authority Rules
