Overall in 1996 ITV revenue was up 4.9% year on year from £1.578bn to £1.656bn while C4 did better with a growth of 10% to nearly £489m. Total combined revenue for the year came in at £2.145bn, which is a year on year growth of 6.1%.On average, ABC1 Adults showed the greatest rise in CPT,… Continue reading TV Round-Up – 1996
Global ad group Cordiant is reported to be considering selling off some of its agency businesses as it struggles to overcome financial difficulties. Industry speculation suggests that it may announce the demerging of Saatchi and Saatchi and Bates Worldwide when financial results are released next month.The last set of results in August revealed that in… Continue reading Cordiant May Sell Off Agencies
David Dingwall, Canada’s minister of health, is reportedly prepared to consider diluting the provisions concerning sponsorship in the draft legislation currently going through parliament. The threatens seriously to curtail tobacco advertising and sponsorship, and thus may provoke the cancellation of tobacco-sponsored sporting events. The Institute of Canadian Advertising, a trade association, has formed the Coalition… Continue reading CAN: Sponsorship Issues Re-Considered
Russell Hawes, Channel 4’s joint London sale chief, has resigned. He leaves the station to do an MBA. His departure has triggered a restructuring of the channel’s advertising department.Matt Shreeve, who was the other half of the London Sales chief role, has been promoted to the newly created position of London sales controller. Shreeve will… Continue reading Another Resignation At Channel 4
The Association of Commercial Television in Europe (ACT) has said that it firmly opposes the notion of establishing lists of major sporting events in order to prevent pay-TV from exerting exclusive rights over broadcasting such events. This comes in the context of the Commission’s new proposals (the “Oreja Plan”) on sports rights (see AIG-Notices 8).ACT… Continue reading EU: ACT Rejects EC Proposal On Pay-TV
British Digital Broadcasting has assured MPs that it will not charge customers for existing free-to-air programmes, if it wins the right to establish digital television in Britain.Nigel Walmsley, director of BDB, promised the national heritage select committee that popular programmes, like Eastenders and Blind Date, would not be broadcast on pay-per-view channels. Walmsley also confirmed… Continue reading BDB Guarantees Status Of Free-To Air Programmes
The ITC has presented a memorandum to the Select Committee for National Heritage calling for the creation of a single broadcasting regulator.Sir Robert Biggam, chairman of the Commission, said: “There are a large number of bodies with responsibility for some aspect of broadcasting regulation. These include the BBC and the soon to be merged Broadcasting… Continue reading ITC Call For Single Regulator
The weekly teen title, Just 17 is to become a monthly. It will be transformed into a perfect-bound, sleek-looking magazine in time for the May issue, due out in April. The title has seen a severe drop in circulation over the last year *Jan-Jun ’96 ABC Figures: Young Women’s/Teenage Sector. It is hoped that the… Continue reading Just 17 Just Once A Month
NYNEX CableComms in conjunction with the Portsmouth newspaper, The News, has started a local teletext service.The news and information service, Newstext, broadcasts on channel 8 in NYNEX CableComms’ Solent franchise. The franchise covers a 218,000 home area in the Portsmouth region. Test pages are being transmitted now and each element of the new service will… Continue reading NYNEX Move Into The Teletext Business
The January Retail Price Index was announced this morning as 154.4, the same as December 1996 and a rise of 2.8% on January 1996.For RPI trends subscribers can access MediaTel’s Encyclomedia section in Talking Windows.
