The Mirror Group is about to invest £15m in the Belfast-based Newsletter, according to recent press rumours. It is believed that most of the money will be spent on printing presses for the daily newspaper, which will also be used to print Mirror Group titles in both northern and southern Ireland.As part of the deal… Continue reading Mirror Group May Buy Irish Paper
The new series of Wycliffe has returned to the top ten programmes. The episode shown on Sunday 9th June attracted an audience of 10.26 million and a consolidated share of the viewing audience of 46%. The detective show remains the only HTV produced programme to feature highly among weekly top thirty programme lists.With the top… Continue reading TV Viewing Summary – w/e 09/06/96
Warner Brothers has announced plans to launch a new satellite channel in the UK in November. The channel, set to be part of BSkyB’s package, will carry general interest programming ranging from cartoons to films and serials.As well as the new Warner channel, BSkyB is believed to be planning up to five new channels: one… Continue reading Warner Brothers To Launch New Channel
The Planet on Sunday, which launched just four days ago, has announced it is to cease publication. Clifford Hards, the paper’s publisher, said the paper’s content did not satisfy “his own personal criteria” and because of that, he was withdrawing support with immediate effect.“Sales of the paper were sufficient to suggest that break-even could have… Continue reading National Sunday Newspaper Closes After First Issue
Last night’s England v Holland match which saw England confirm their place in the next round of Euro’96 attracted the biggest audience by far this year for a sporting programme, an average of 14.6 million individuals; this was a 63.4% share of individuals viewing, and 75.6% share of men. Of these, an average of 1.3… Continue reading England v Holland Attracts Highest Audience
IPC has announced the launch of a magazine, aimed at 25-40 year old men who are interested in food, drink and travel.The magazine, titled Eat Soup, will go on sale in September with a cover price of £2.50. It comes from IPC’s Loaded stable of titles and promises to combine the irreverent elements of this… Continue reading IPC Aims To Take A Bite Out Of Men’s Market
At yesterday’s Annual General Meeting, Charlie Scott, Chairman of Cordiant, announced that financial stability of the group had been restored following the departure of Maurice Saatchi in 1994. He confirmed that during the first half of 1995, £23 million of revenue came from clients subsequently lost, but “due to the tenacity of staff in our… Continue reading Cordiant Stabilised
The Radio Authority has fined five radio stations for breaches of the broadcasting rules; Scot FM was fined £3,000; 96.6 FM Classic Hits, £3,000; Choice FM, £1,000; 2CR, £1,000 and Fortune 1458, £1,000.Scot FM breached the Authority’s code on taste and decency matters in a discussion on single mothers in a mid-morning phone-in programme. The… Continue reading Radio Authority Fines Five ILR Stations
The introduction of digital TV services will have a dramatic impact on the TV market in Europe, according to new findings at CIT Research. This is one of the key findings which will be presented at the IBC ‘Subscription Television’ conference on Thursday 20th June at the Meridien Hotel, London.CIT estimates that at the end… Continue reading Pay-TV Is Key To Digital TV Development
Sunday saw the launch of Britain’s newest national newspaper The Planet on Sunday, a tabloid with a strong health and environmental slant. As an indication of the paper’s agenda the front-page story concentrates on the safety of children’s health immunisation, rather than the Manchester bombing.This is a trend throughout the paper, with mainstream stories being… Continue reading Review: The Planet On Sunday
