The Department of National Heritage has published a Government paper, ‘Broadcast Sports Rights: Informing the Debate’, which aims to ‘help inform the public and Parliamentary debate’ on the question of TV coverage of sports events.Virginia Bottomley, National Heritage Secretary, said: “There is a widespread view that certain events are more than mere sporting occasions and… Continue reading Government Opens Debate On TV Sport
Granada Television has confirmed that it will be launching Coronation Street scratchcards in The Sun newspaper. Readers of The Sun could win a £10,000 daily cash prize by answering questions about the current storylines in The Street. The game, which will feature only in the newspaper and not onscreen, could begin as soon as next… Continue reading Coronation Street And The Sun To Launch Scratchcards
The Sun and The Daily Mirror are to increase the price of their Saturday editions by 2p, making The Sun 27p and The Daily Mirror 30p. This cover price increase comes at a time when raw material costs have at last slowed down, after increases of around 70% in the past 18 months.The price of… Continue reading Sun And Mirror Announce Price Rises
A BMRB survey has shown overwhelming support for the BBC’s belief that sports coverage should stay on terrestrial TV.The survey of 1,288 people aged 16 and over shows that nine in ten believe that major sporting events are part of the country’s heritage and should be available to the widest possible audience – without the… Continue reading Poll Shows Support For Terrestrial Sport
RevenueDecember was a poor month for ITV in terms of revenue, with ITV’s actual figure down on last year by 3.7%; this decrease, despite Channel 4’s increase of 11.3% year on year was enough to bring combined ITV/C4 revenue down by 0.6%. The total figure was £155.94m. Of this C4’s £36.72m represents 24%.Amongst the individual… Continue reading Television Round-Up – December
Dixon Moutrie Silkstone has poached two staff from agencies based in Leeds and Bradford to replace its group heads, Kerry King and Jenny O’Brien, as part of a round of job changes in northern agencies.DMS has recruited Sally Pitchforth (senior media executive at Poulter) and Dominic Geary (media executive at Judith Donovan Associates). O’Brien has… Continue reading Leeds Appointments
Virgin TV will not be appealing against the High Court decision of last Friday which dismissed its claim that the Channel 5 licence had been awarded unfairly to C5B.In a statement Virgin TV said that it had given the matter “detailed consideration” but had decided not to appeal, and added that it wished C5B the… Continue reading Virgin Not To Appeal Against C5 Decision
Channel 4’s new The Girlie Show has been slammed by the public, according to research conducted by the McCann-Erickson/Universal advertising group.Only 10% of women aged (16+) who watched last Friday’s programme will bother to tune in this Friday; and only 4% of men (16+) will switch channels this Friday night. The Girlie Show, in the… Continue reading C4’s Girlie Show Gets Thumbs Down
For only the third time since the beginning of 1995 only two editions of the tri-weekly Channel 4 soap Brookside have managed to make it into the channel’s Top 10 programmes. For w/e 21/01/96 the Friday edition only achieved an audience of 2.67m -placing it behind all of that week’s editions of Countdown, 70’s rerun… Continue reading Improved Scheduling Leaves Brookside Out In The Cold
