Mediatel’s estimate of TV revenue for August gives a combined ITV and C4 revenue figure of £138,673,667 – an increase of 9% on August 1994. Individually C4 showed more than twice the percentage increase of ITV with a revenue figure of £30.97m up 17.1% year on year compared to ITV’s £107.7m – up 7.1% year… Continue reading TV Revenue And Shares – August
Boots Magazine, the quarterly title which is distributed throughout the stores has been suspended. The title which was only launched at the start of the year has been taken off the shelves pending a review. Poor circulation and disagreements over the distribution of the magazine were cited as the main reasons for the suspension.
Central television’s drama series Soldier Soldier has started its new series well by entering the top thirty programme list at number three. It attracted 15.38 million viewers and had a 62% share of viewing for the Tuesday night it was shown.Other programmes performing well include Heartbeat and London’s Burning, both of which increase on their… Continue reading Soldier Soldier Marches Up The Chart
Sky television has secured a five-fight deal with Mike Tyson ensuring that any future fight with new WBC champion Frank Bruno, will be shown on the station. The first fight under the new deal will be Tyson’s second comeback fight against Buster Mathis Jr in Las Vegas, shown live on Saturday 4 November.The Tyson deal… Continue reading Sky Sports Signs Five Fight Tyson Deal
MAI, the cash-rich financial services and media group, is considering a number of media developments, and would be well-placed to launch cable and satellite channels, but, contrary to reports by Raymond Snoddy in today’s FT, “there is not timetable in place”, according to Richard Saunders, Director of Development and Communications at MAI.Mr Saunders told MediaTel… Continue reading MAI Planning Cable & Satellite Channels
Home Counties Newspapers has today announced that it has bought Herald Newspapers for £7 million in cash, £2 million of which not be payable until the first anniversary of completion. Herald Newspapers publishes 11 free newspapers split into 23 local editions covering a wide area of Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Essex. After the acquisition the… Continue reading Home Counties Buys Herald Newspapers
Future Publishing are to launch another craft magazine in the hope of attracting a more mass market appeal.Quick & Easy Cross Stitch which is a monthly, goes on sale on September 21 with an introductory cover price of 99p, normal price £2.50. It is aimed to appeal to cross-stitchers at all levels and has adopted… Continue reading New Craft Title For Future
Overnight figures for Saturday night’s episode of Casualty, have put its audience at twice as many as ITV’s new quiz show Raise The Roof. Casualty managed to attract a TVR of 27 for a peak quarter hour, an average TVR of 25 and 56% share of audience. This is compared to a TVR of 12… Continue reading Casualty Vs Raise The Roof Overnight
Latest figures from GfK Marketing Services indicate that the offer, begun in April, of a dish and receiver for £99 is having little effect on the market – figures for May, June and July show the lowest growth since last September.July’s growth was just 15,000 to a new total of 3,113,000 homes with satellite dishes.… Continue reading £99 Dish Offer Has Little Effect On Satellite Sales
Midland Independent Newspapers, publishers of the Birmingham Post & Mail, have reported a 19% increase in operating profit (to £10.7m) for the first six months of 1995 on the back of contributions from its regional newspapers, and from the newly acquired magazines and exhibitions divisions.Chief Executive, Chris Oakley pointed to the launch of controlled distribution… Continue reading MIN Reports Steady Growth & Continued Interest In Reed
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