For the first time in five years the Radio Authority has increased its application fees for local radio licences. This is as a result of the increasing costs of processing applicationsThe price increase will effect all those applications which must be received by the Authority after 1 April 1997. The applications fees for a full-term,… Continue reading Local Radio Licence Application Fees Go Up By Up To 100%
The Telegraph group has submitted a complaint to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, ABC, over the 10p Monday edition of the Times .The Telegraph claim that ABC should not classify the cut-price edition of The Times as a sale as there is no financial gain for the paper from the Monday editions. The news-vendors who… Continue reading Telegraph In Dispute With Times
The Independent is moving its Media section from a Tuesday to a Monday.The paper is expanding its media section into a stand-alone tabloid section on 17 February 1997. The Guardian ‘s media section is also published on a Monday and it recently relaunched as a stand-alone tabloid *Supplement Review – Media Guardian. The new Independent… Continue reading Media Independent To Go Head To Head With Media Guardian
The UK’s largest TV air-time sales house, TSMS, is launching a new media sales and marketing house aimed at the interactive market. The new division, TSMS Interactive or TSMSi, is hoping to help advertisers promote their interactive media. TSMSi will be concerned with the Internet, CD-Roms, interactive TV, company Intranets and kiosks. The new division… Continue reading TSMS Goes Interactive
The television sector was again the focus of market attention due to its plans, or lack of, for terrestrial digital TV.At the start of the week those broadcasters not involved in the consortiums again experienced large price drops: Scottish Television fell 81.5p to 546p, Yorkshire-Tyne Tees dropped 80p to 1,102.5p, HTV lost 30p and Ulster… Continue reading Sharewatch W/E 07/02/97
The latest Rajar figures reveal that the BBC has extended its lead over commercial radio to 1.3%. The BBC obtained 49.6% of total audience share, compared with commercial radio’s 48.3%. BBC’s radio share is up more than 2% year-on-year.Radio 1’s reach was down to 10.7 million from 11.2 million in the previous quarter while Radio… Continue reading Q4 Rajar Figures – Summary
David Jason makes a welcome return to ITV this week with the new series of A Touch Of Frost soaring straight into the top ten with an audience of 16.75 million. ITV drama is continuing to grow in standing, with Frost merely following up the progress which London’s Burning made in its last series. The… Continue reading TV Viewing Summary W/E 09/02/97
Emap Elan is set to produce a male version of Elle which will be included as a supplement in the magazine this April. It will have a lifestyle content targeted at men aged 20-30 and it is believed that if successful it will be launched as a stand-alone title, probably called Elle Men.…Emap Elan is… Continue reading Emap Elan To Experiment With New Titles
Television subscriptions will become a more important source of income to the UK’s television industry than advertising by the year 2000. This is the conclusion of a report from Datamonitor.The report, IT in UK Media 1996-2001: Moving Towards Holistic Systems, estimates that subscription revenue, including pay-TV and video-on-demand, will increase in the television industry by… Continue reading Pay TV Set For Rapid Growth
Media Vantage, the Leeds-based agency that launched last year, has restructured in order to strengthen its trading base.Mark Midmore has been promoted to deputy media director; he will combine this new role with his previous position as head of broadcast. Michele Ellaby will oversee all non-broadcast business and share responsibility for business development with Mandy… Continue reading Media Vantage Restructures
