Ray Hall, currently director of marketing and communications at VFD, has been appointed general manager of the ABC, joining the new chairman Geoffrey Copeman.Richard Foan, deputy chief executive of the ABC, has also been asked to set up a new electronic media auditing company with a view to running it when it is fully funded… Continue reading Ray Hall To Run ABC
News Corporation, Rupert Murdoch’s global media business, has reported flat profits for the first quarter to the end of September. Pre-tax profits came in at A$285m compared with A$284m for the same period last year. Operating revenue was A$3.15bn, slightly higher than last year’s A$3.13bn.The News International arm of the company reported that its newspapers… Continue reading News Corp Profits Virtually Unchanged
According to initial forecasts the Tyson-Holyfield boxing match, shown in the early hour of Sunday morning, attracted an estimated 420,000 pay-per-view customers. The figures are being seen as proof that there is a future for pay-per-view in the UK as there had been criticism that viewers would be unwilling to pay twice for top sporting… Continue reading Tyson-Holyfield Overnights
IDG Publishing has relaunched its Appletalk magazine in a bid to create a wider appeal for the title. It will now be called PowerPC Dealer. A spokesman at the company told Newsline that overall the magazine would change very little, though editorial would be expanded to have a wider focus and pagination would be increased.IDG:… Continue reading New Identity For Appletalk
TMD Carat Manchester has appointed Chris Broadbent to its main board. He leaves his post as an Associate Director to take up new responsibilities in Broadcast and New Business… As part of a rearrangement of staff in the company, David Abbott is to step down as group chairman of the Abbott Mead Vickers group at… Continue reading TMD Appoints New Board Member
MAGtrack, the media research company, has announced details of the survey it carried out on the Saturday 12 October issue of the Financial Times .The How To Spend It supplement, launched eighteen months ago, performed better than expected, with its ads generally having more consistent readership scores than the rest of the paper. Though the… Continue reading MAGtrack Carries Out FT Survey
Both Capital Radio and EMAP release their interim results today, with Capital expected to reveal a year-on-year rise despite the heavy competition in the London radio market. IPC are holding a seminar called A Feast Of Magazines on Wednesday which will look at recent develpoments in the magazine sector, focusing especially on Men’s titles.Another new… Continue reading The Week Ahead
United News & Media plc have today announced that they are selling their 15 Welsh newspaper titles, which include South Wales Argus , to Southern Newspapers for £31.5 million. The proceeds from the sale will be used to reduce group debts.As part of United’s review of operations following the merger with MAI, the decision was… Continue reading United News & Media Sell Welsh Titles
Qualities The recently released ABC October figures show that amongst the quality dailies the Times easily outperformed every title in the sector.Last month it increased by 16.08% year-on-year to reach sales of 783,595, while its nearest rival in terms of growth was the FT with a growth of 2.5%. The Daily Telegraph came a close… Continue reading National Press Round-Up – October
Capital Radio plc have released their pre tax profits for the year to September 1996. Profits are up 21% on last year’s figure to £32.1 million. Turnover is £77.8 million, which is an increase of 15%.Ian Irvine, Chairman of Capital Radio, said ” Turnover and headline profit before tax are once again at record levels,… Continue reading Capital Radio Profits Up
