Features on Newsline this week will include, a round-up of the national press January ABCs and a television round-up for 1996. The July to December consumer magazine ABCs are released on Friday and will be accompanied by Newsline items.The Daily Mail and General Trust’s AGM is being held on Wednesday at the Kensington Close Hotel… Continue reading The Week Ahead
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. This puts the revenue ratio for 1996 between ITV and C4 at 77:23.Total combined revenue for the year came in at £2.145bn, which is a year on year… Continue reading TV Round-Up – 1996
Two new bi-monthly IT magazines, Compuship and Move-IT will launch in the Spring.London-based TLA Publishing is the team behind the titles.Compuship will launch in March and is to cover mobile satellite communications, information technology and electronics for shipping. Move-IT will be on the news-stands in April and will do the same for land-mobile and remote… Continue reading New IT Titles
Three titles have released early ABC figures. Slimmer, published by the Turret Group, shows a significant decrease while DMG’s Perfect Home put in a strong performance. The full set of consumer ABCs for July-December will be released next Friday along with accompanying Newsline items. Title Jul 95 – Dec 95 Jul 96 – Dec 96… Continue reading Slimmer Magazine Suffers In Early ABCs
EMAP has announced the launch of a new sales house to represent UK Web sites to advertisers and their agencies. EMAP Internet Sales is part of the new specialist Internet publishing company EMAP Online which launched this week.The aim of EMAP Internet Sales is to provide media buyers with a single point of contact from… Continue reading EMAP Creates Web Sales House
The Radio Authority has put back the launch of Digital Audio Broadcasting until Spring 1998 in an effort to give the “maximum impact necessary for it to succeed.”The original launch date was supposed to be later this year but the Authority has adopted what it calls a “slow burn” approach whereby it will advertise the… Continue reading Radio Authority Revises Digital Timetable
News Corp, Rupert Murdoch’s global media company, has posted six month financial results which show that after tax profits have risen 17% to US$576 while revenues grew by 11% to US$5.6 billion.News International, the group’s UK newspaper division, performed well, with operating profits increasing 18% due to strong revenue and advertising growth. BSkyB, 40% owned… Continue reading News Corp Profits Grow
The results of an outdoor advertising survey show that clothing advertisers like Nike and Burton doubled their annual poster spend last year to £8.4 million. It is reported, in MediaWeek, that the research, carried out by Poster Publicity and Media Monitoring Services, reveals that the clothing sector is now one of the top-ten outdoor advertising… Continue reading Star Bill-Board Spenders
The new Wednesday evening Lottery draw on BBC1 was shown this week and unofficial overnights suggest it was watched by 10.8m viewers. The Saturday Lottery slot attracted 12.43 million on 25 January, though the first ever draw was watched by almost 22m.The latest Television data can be accessed by subscribers by clicking here.
Channel 5 may not have hit the air-waves yet, but it has just gone on-line. to find out what to expect of the new channel key in http://www.channel5.co.uk/home.html. A review is available on Newsline Web-Site Of The Week – Channel 5Another broadcaster who has decided to experiment with the web before taking to the air… Continue reading Web Round Up – W/E 14/2/97
