Gruner + Jahr have released their July-December ABCs; Best is up slightly year on year, 0.2% whilst Prima recorded a loss of 11%. Focus has switched reporting periods to annual; its January to December figure was 82,068.The Bauer titles, which do not release ABCs but release own audited figures, have released a mixed bag of… Continue reading G+J, Bauer and OK Release Jul-Dec ABCs
HTV and the newly created South West Media Development Agency has announced a £150,000 joint initiative to encourage new film-making talent in the region.The scheme Western Lights, launched by HTV’s Director of Programmes in Bristol Jeremy Payne and Judith Higginbottom, Director of SWMDA, supercedes the HTV/South West Arts Film Awards, and aims to increase the… Continue reading HTV To Encourage New Film-Makers
http://www.ipa.co.uk/The IPA launched its web site on Wednesday and is one of the first UK trade bodies to go onto the Internet. The site contains all the information advertisers need to know and is available on both open-access and member’s only access.Features on open access include the IPA newsletter, with advertising news and developments; a… Continue reading Website Of The Week: IPA
The IPA is to encourage top agencies to get involved in marketing and advertising education by launching a “twinning” scheme matching agencies and universities.The programme will enable university tutors to get input to their courses from their “twinned” agency, in the form of guest speakers, IPA endorsed curricular material and in-agency placements for students. Agencies… Continue reading IPA To Link With Universities
Press rumours that Oasis are in negotiations with Manchester City Football Club regarding a sponsorship deal were denied by the band’s record label Creation.The football club is currently sponsored by Brother, the electronics firm, but the contract is close to expiring.It is also believed that JVC is about to drop its sponsorship of Arsenal Football… Continue reading Football Sponsorship Rumours
According to Campaign the top ten advertising agencies based on Register-MEAL billings for 1995 were as listed below. All of these were in the top ten last year, except Ammirati Puris Lintas which is a new entry. McCann Erickson has dropped out of the top ten this year, to number 11. M&C Saatchi are at… Continue reading Top Ten Agencies For 1995
Nynex Cablecomms, the UK’s second largest cable operator, has announced an improvement in its cable television revenue, which increased 93% to £38.7 million in 1995 compared with £20 million in 1994.Other figures show that average monthly revenue per cable customer increased to £21.59 million from 1994’s £19.67 million and that the number of homes passed… Continue reading Nynex Cable Revenue Increases
All television ratecards for 1996 are now finally published, and they show that Contractors have made very few changes to ratecard rates for 1996. The indexed spot lengths, where 30 seconds equal 100, show many similarities to 1995.* Laser sales 10″ rate for its stations has a slightly higher index than others at 60.* All… Continue reading 1996 TV Ratecards – Indexed Spot Lengths (30″=100)
The Office of Fair Trading is expected to intervene in the radio industry following the news that the second largest radio sales house, Independent Radio Sales, is near to disbandment.Emap and GWR have both moved their IRS stations to Media Sales & Marketing, a subsidiary of Capital Radio. This will give MS&M a dominant share… Continue reading IRS Future Looks Uncertain
In its February Complaints Bulletin the Broadcasting Standards Council upheld in part two complaints about an item on Chris Evans’s BBC Radio 1 Breakfast Show. One listener was offended by an item about a sex aid and erections, the second by a joke about oral sex. The BBC argued that the innuendo would only have… Continue reading Chris Evans Reprimanded
