No real change in the top programmes of the week with Coronation Street maintaining its first place and taking second. Wednesday episode achieved 18.26 million viewers, with Mondays gaining 17.59 million, helped along this week by the departure of long-standing character Raquel leaving devastated husband Curly.ITV’s dramas continue to gain larger audiences than the BBC,… Continue reading TV Viewing Summary – W/E 17/11/96
www.loaded.co.ukThere seems to be a great amount of activity amongst many of the men’s magazines titles in launching web sites. One may well be surprised to learn that the Loaded web site has in fact only been up and running for a week, but as one would expect from this title a great deal of… Continue reading Web Site Of The Week – Loaded
Bristol United Press, the regional newspaper group, has reported a half year drop in profits from £4.49 million to £4.24 million, a fall of 5.6%. Revenue increased slightly from £30.4m to £31.1m.The drop in profits was mostly due to a rise in newsprint costs which are believed to have peaked during the period though ad… Continue reading Bristol United Press Sees Profit Drop
Future Publishing have closed Rugby Magazine just four months after it had received a relaunch. The closure is being attributed to the high number of Rugby related magazines that are currently on the market and the fact that sales did not increase substantially enough.… launching just in time to pick up Rugby Magazine’s readers, Inside… Continue reading Future Cease Publication Of Rugby Magazine
Following the departure of Jim Park as advertisement sales director at Caledonian Publishing, Donald Emslie, currently commercial director at STV will temporarily assume the role, in addition to his current TV responsibility. Neither Caledonian or STV were able to comment as to whether any permanent replacement would have such a wide ranging portfolio.…The BBC’s commercial… Continue reading Appointment Briefs
95.8 Capital FM will be moving Chris Tarrant’s Breakfast Show to a new start time of 6.30am with effect from January 6 as part of its New Year programme schedules.The Breakfast Show will continue to broadcast until 10am when Steve Penk will move into a new mid morning slot between 10am and 1pm from his… Continue reading Tarrant’s Breakfast Show Extended
The sale of the BBC’s domestic and foreign transmission service reached the final stage yesterday when four UK and US groups handed in their final bids. All offers for this, the BBC’s first privatisation, are believed to exceed £200 million.The four bidders are International CableTel, a consortium led by Securicor, Mercury Asset Management and Castletower… Continue reading BBC Sell Off Attracts Final Bids
The Sun and the Daily Mirror revealed today the Christmas television schedules, as the battle between the terrestrial channels continues.BBC1 starts the fight on Christmas Eve premiering the film Super Mario Brothers while for the same time ITV can only come up with Protocol, and later on in the evening Top Gun both films shown… Continue reading Christmas Schedules For 1996
Admissions Cinema admissions have been varied so far this year, with January and February starting 1996 off well by each recording figures of just over 12 million. The best month of the year so far however was August which saw an overall increase of 23.87% on the same month last year with a figure of… Continue reading Cinema Round-Up – January To October
Unofficial overnight figures for last night’s screening of ITV’s detective drama Inspector Morse show that it achieved a peak audience of 14.29 million viewers, with an average audience of 13.59 million between 8pm and 10pm.BBC1 had How Do They Do That?, Points Of View, Nine O’Clock News, Budget Response and X-Files up against Morse and… Continue reading Inspector Morse Overnights
