National Heritage Secretary Virginia Bottomley yesterday announced a new BBC Charter and Agreement, and also announced that the BBC’s transmission service is to be privatised. This is expected to bring in around £100m for the BBC.The new Charter and Agreement are designed to “allow the BBC to meet the broadcasting challenges of the 21st Century”.… Continue reading BBC Changes Announced – To Allow Multi-Media Future
BSkyB has secured the television rights to The Football League Championship and Football League Cup from the start of next season.Under a five year deal, starting in August 1996, Sky will broadcast up to 60 Football League matches exclusively live each season, featuring clubs from all three divisions. In addition, all three end-of-season promotion play… Continue reading BSkyB Secures Football Rights
Grampian Television has continued its record of profits’ increase with the announcement that their pre-tax profits have risen by 62% to £2.9million for the six-months ended 31 August 1995.Calum MacLeod, Grampian Television Chairman commented that “These results owe much to a 10.4% increase in Grampian’s advertising revenue over the period compared with a rise of… Continue reading Grampian Profits Up By 62%
Northcliffe Newspapers have announced personnel changes in both the marketing and advertising departments. Clairedy Gardiner-Hyne, London Advertisement Manager will be made Senior London Advertisement Manager.Mike Ratcliffe, formerly Client Services Manager at Thomson Media Sales will become Client Services Manager for Northcliffe Newspapers from Monday, and also joining from TMS is Karen Smyth, as London Advertisement… Continue reading Northcliffe Appointments
ITV has managed its largest Sunday primetime viewing share to date this year, according to unofficial overnights. Fourteen million viewers tuned into the opening episode of The Beatles Anthology yesterday, which ITV expects to exceed 15 million once the consolidated figures are in.Heartbeat, at 7pm attracted an audience of 16.2 million; the Beatles, at 8pm… Continue reading ITV Claims Best Weekend So Far This Year
Revenue Revenue for October, traditionally the best month for TV revenue, was this year over the £200m mark, at £202,715,300; this is an increase of 6.4% year on year. Of this total, Channel 4 and GMTV fared best, up 18.1% and 10.2% respectively. Channel 4’s total was £45.8m, GMTV’s was £10.05m. The ITV/C4 split shows… Continue reading Television Round-Up – October
Andrew Neil, former editor of the Sunday Times has confirmed today that he is putting together a bid for the Express Newspapers. Neil has raised around £300 million to try to buy the titles, despite constant denials from United News and Media that they are not for sale.Andrew Neil, speaking today on BBC Radio confirmed… Continue reading Andrew Neil Confirms Express Bid
The Independent Television Commission has issued a defensive statement regarding Virgin TV’s successful application for a judicial review of the Channel 5 decision. ITC has made it clear that this decision is based on evidence provided to the court by Virgin only, and at this stage is not based on merits of the case but… Continue reading ITC Statement On Virgin Challenge
The BBC has signed an £18 million four-year deal with the World Professional Billards and Snooker Association. The deal was accepted despite a more substantial offer from Rupert Murdoch’s BSkyB reported to be in the region of £100 million for a ten-year deal. The WPBSA decided that though the headline figure for the Sky offer… Continue reading BBC Snookers BSkyB Over Rights To Major Tournaments
Channel 5, which is expected to launch in January 1997, will hit Carlton and Granada hardest in terms of television revenues, according to a report out by Goldman Sachs. Carlton is expected to grow by just 1.5% , and Granada at 1.1% in 1997.The report predicts that Channel 5 will take revenues of £99m in… Continue reading Channel 5 Will Affect Carlton And Granada Revenues
