Helena Hudson is to join Optimedia, heading the £7m L’Oreal and Lancome accounts. Hudson, who was O&M Media’s former press buying manager, will join Optimedia as a media account director in mid – August.Optimedia 0171 935 0040.The National Magazine Company has appointed Marc Hope, agency manager of Readers Digest as ad director of House Beautiful.… Continue reading Appointments – Optimedia, NatMags and IPC
Commercial radio has at last achieved over 50% share of listening; the Q2 1995 Rajar figures show a 50.1% share. Commercial radio’s share has been steadily growing; two years ago its share was 38.9%; last year’s Q2 figure was 47.4%, and Q1 1995’s figure was 48.4%.Commercial radio has increased its weekly reach to 28.6m listeners,… Continue reading Commercial Radio Achieves Over 50% Of Radio Listening For
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General InterestThe latest round of readership figures, for the period Jan to June 1995, show Sky magazine losing a further 11,000 readers on December to May 1995. This is a decrease of 54% on last year’s Jan to June figures, before Sky’s card was changed to differentiate it from Sky TV Guide. Sky’s latest figure,… Continue reading NRS Round-Up Jan-Jun 1995
Scottish Television has announced half year profits, for the period to June 30 this year, of £7.4m.Scottish Television, which has under gone heavy cost cutting measures with the sale of the company’s loss making outplacement in the spring, has experienced a turnaround in fortune with an operating profit which has increased by 600% and profit… Continue reading Scottish TV Half Year Profits
The 1995 British Business Survey conducted by Research Services Ltd has been released. The BBS is the readership and marketing study of the business community in the UK which screens around 70,000 households. Business men and women are identified and personally interviewed. The response rate for the current survey of 56.6% exceeded that of the… Continue reading RSL Releases Latest BBS
http://www.dotmusic.comFollowing the news earlier this week that Miller Freeman (formerly Morgan Grampian) has launched net sites for its electronic titles, it has announced the launch of a music business magazine specifically designed for the internet on 21 August. Miller Freeman claims to be the first UK publisher to achieve this, claiming other magazine sites are… Continue reading Music Business Gets Own Site
The Guardian Newspaper is to launch an A5 version of its Saturday listings supplement, The Guide, in Manchester this autumn. The guide is so far only distributed in the London/South East area.
The latest round of consumer ABCs to be released includes the BBC and Conde Nast titles. The BBC titles, except for Gardeners’ World, recorded increases year on year, with the best performer being Vegetarian Good Food, up 14.91%. ABC Totals January to June 1994 January to June 1995 % Change Actual Change BBC VEGETARIAN GOOD… Continue reading Jan To June ABCs – BBC, Emap And Conde Nast
The BBC yesterday announced the line up for its autumn programming. According to the Corporation, £168 million has been spent. This includes 75 hours of new drama and 22 fresh comedy and variety shows amongst mare than 520 hours of original BBC programming.The Autumn schedule includes a documentary, Peoples Century which has cost the BBC… Continue reading BBC Announces Autumn Schedule
Nynex CableComms PLC and Nynex CableComms Group Inc have announced 2nd quarter operating statistics for the period ended 30 June 1995. Interim financial figures are expected to be released on Tuesday 8th August 1995.Residential telecommunications lines have increased by over 35,000 in the quarter, five times as many as were added in the same quarter… Continue reading Nynex 2nd Quarter Statistics
