Media group EMAP this morning announced six-month financial results which show that pre-tax profits have risen 34% to £50.6m on the back of turnover which increased 16% to £388.3m.Advertising income from consumer magazines was partly responsible for the good growth, increasing 10%, though ad revenue was flat in the business magazines sector. Profits were good… Continue reading EMAP Profits Rise To £50.6m
CIA Media Solutions has made a raft of new appointments as part of its management restructure. Simon Bartle, Tony Jarvis and Mick Style have all become members of the company board while Helen Whitby has been promoted from the position of research executive to research manager.…The Telegraph has made two appointments to its ad display… Continue reading Appointment News
BSkyB has announced that it will be forming a joint venture with OzEmail, an Australian Internet provider, to launch an advertising service on the Internet.Full details of the plan are expected to be announced next month though it is known that the project will deliver ad opportunities for Web sites around the globe. BSkyB will… Continue reading BSkyB To Launch Internet Ad Service
ABC figures released for October show that the Daily Express‘s revamp has made little impact on the paper’s declining circulation in the face of the Daily Mail‘s growing strength. In October the Daily Express‘s sales fell by 3.64% to 1.205 million year-on-year and though this is a slight improvement on September’s figure, the Daily Mail… Continue reading National Newspaper October ABCs
The passing of more relaxed cross-media ownership rules on Friday November 1 meant that many ITV companies experienced high prices at the start of last week.Border was up 6.5 to 310p on Monday, with the price hovering around this mark for the majority of the week. STV had risen to 733.5p during the first part… Continue reading Sharewatch W/E 8/11/96
A new magazine is rumoured to be launching on Monday dedicated to mobile phone users and published by Noble House Publishing. Mobile Choice is said to be a 100-page monthly title, costing £1.95 with a print-run of 40,000.Noble House Publishing: 0171 225 2656
London News Radio has said that it will be moving its sales operation in-house and will no longer trade through Media Sales and Marketing.It is reported that Nigel Reeve, managing director of LNR, is keen to have sales handled by staff who have a close affinity with the station and he believes the best way… Continue reading LNR Moves Sales In-House
Emap today publishes its new monthly cinema title, Neon magazine, at a special introductory price of £1. Published by the creators of both Empire and the music title Select, Neon is clearly aimed at the 18-25 year old Trainspotting generation. The growth in the consumer magazine sector over recent years is allowing a more confident… Continue reading First Issue Review: Neon Magazine
A Videotron spokesman has told Newsline that Saturday night’s Pay-Per-View event, the fight between Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield on Sky Sports, is expected to attract around half the audience that the Bruno Tyson fight did in March * BSkyB Claims Pay-Per-View Success due to the lack of a ‘British interest’ in the fighters. Even… Continue reading Low PPV Take-Up Expected
The Radio Authority has announced that Radio 106 FM has won the new regional ILR licence for the East Midlands.Radio 106 FM will broadcast a broadly even mix of speech and melodic music targeting an audience aged 30-54 to an area which includes the cities of Leicester, Nottingham and Derby. More than 1.5 million people… Continue reading Radio 106 FM Wins East Midlands Licence
