The Radio Authority is next week (8 August) advertising a new Independent Local Radio licence to cover the town of Stornoway and surrounding parts of the Isle of Lewis, off the north-west coast of Scotland. The licence is being offered on the FM waveband and will reach around 15,000 adults. The closing date for applications… Continue reading Radio Authority Advertises New Licences
Newsquest Media this morning announced that it has bought Westminster Press from Pearson for £305 million.Westminster Press has a total circulation approaching 2.2 million and had a reported turnover of over £140 million in 1995. Its 60 titles will be added to the 120 already owned by Newsquest. The combined company will have a turnover… Continue reading Newsquest Buys Westminster Press For £305m
Pearson PLC revealed today its pre-tax results for the half year to June 30 1996. Although sales are up by 20%, figures are generally lower than last year with profit before tax reduced by almost a third. In reaction to the disappointing figures, the Board reflected on last year and noted that profits were earned… Continue reading Disappointing Results For Pearson
BSkyB rose to 497p on Wednesday but fell to 491p by Friday. Incidentally the drop occurred amidst speculation of no compromise being made between the five nations and BSkyB for the BSkyB/England rugby contract *(Rugby Challenges BSkyB Deal).After the buy-out of Caledonian *(STV Takes Over Caledonian) , STV increased from 662p to 678p. Carlton, who… Continue reading Sharewatch
Troubled newspaper, The Sunday Business may announce potential buyers later this week. A spokesman from the publication told MediaTel: “We are optimistic that a buyer could be named tomorrow following interests from various parties.”The Sunday Business met financial difficulties earlier this year *(Sunday Business In Financial Crisis) and faced restructuring, following a successful application for… Continue reading New Buyer For Sunday Business
Pearson will today release financial results and is expected to reveal the buyer of Westminster Press. Other financial results this week include Cordiant on Tuesday, Rank Organisation on Thursday and CIA Group on Friday.Features on Newsline this week include a TV Round-Up which will look at revenue, impacts, CPTs, viewing and industry news for June,… Continue reading The Week Ahead
Future Publishing hold the largest share in the computer magazine sector with 46% of all circulations, although they publish the majority of computing magazines for all formats (i.e PC,Amiga, Sega, etc).In the PC sector there have been notable decreases particularly with PC Plus (28%). PC Pro is the only title with any significant increase (21%).Console/Games… Continue reading Jan-Jun ’96 ABC Figures: Computing Sector
The Jan-Jun ABCs for the music sector show and overall increase in year on year circulation figures. Classic FM magazine has record the highest increase in circulation, up 94.64% or 18,938 copies. The second highest increase belongs to DMC’s Mixmag which went up by 40.42% or 23,109 copies.The biggest slump in circulation belongs to EMAP’s… Continue reading January To June ABCs – Music Market
IPC, which has the most titles out of all the publishing companies in the women’s monthlies sector, has had a mixed response for the beginning of the year. Titles such as Ideal Home, Marie Claire, Woman’s Own, Family Circle and Woman have all increased in their circulation whereas Eva‘s circulation has decreased by 23.3% and… Continue reading Jan-Jun ’96 ABC Figures: Women’s Monthly Sector
Motoring magazines saw very little change with the Auto Trader series still being the most popular (although it has separate regional titles). Emap have recently launched a new motoring magazine titled Revs *(Emap Revs Up For New Car Monthly) alongside its popular title Max Power (150561 to 180147).Auto Express, published by Express Newspapers, saw an… Continue reading Jan-Jun ’96 ABC Figures: Motoring Sector
