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
The Incorporated Society of British Advertisers (ISBA) will be discussing monitoring sponsorship activities and how to make those activities work at the 16th Annual Sponsorship Conference which is to be held on 21st September 1995 in London at the Marriott Hotel W1.Publicity Manager for Cornhill Insurance, Geoff Mayhew, will be raising the question “Monitoring your… Continue reading ISBA Annual Sponsorship Conference
The Sunday Telegraph launched its magazine yesterday, becoming the title’s sixth section alongside News, Business, Sport, Review and Appointments, and backed by a £1m promotional push.The magazine opens with “Capital Letter” which muses that for all Sunday Telegraph readers this must be “a moment of bitter disappointment” – many had thought the paper already had… Continue reading Sunday Telegraph – New Magazine Reviewed
At the biennial Royal Television Society convention, the government’s plans for digital TV have come in for criticism from several quarters, including John Birt, director general of the BBC.Mr. Birt said the system could bring marvellous creative opportunities for all broadcasters, but these were being overshadowed by uncertainties, which the government could dispel by announcing… Continue reading Broadcasters Criticise Uncertainty Over Digital TV Plans
The Independent Television has awarded the local delivery for Totton and Hythe to the sole bidder, Videotron Southampton and Eastleigh Ltd. The cash bid from Videotron for the Totton and Hythe franchise was £1, supplementing the percentages of qualifying revenue set by the ITC. Videotron proposes to serve 25,199 homes by the end of 1998.The… Continue reading Franchise Awards
Quorn House Publishing is set to launch a new health and fitness magazine for women aged between 20-65 early next year.Rosemary Conley’s Diet and Fitness Magazine, launching on the 18th January will be a glossy bi-monthly with an initial print run of 400,000 and a cover price of £1.70. The editorial will feature diets, exercises… Continue reading New Women’s Health Magazine
IPC has set up a dedicated New Media Publishing team with the appointment of Jonathan Newby and Colin Tough as the two publishers to head up the company’s brand development activities in electronic publishing.IPC’s planned activities encompass all aspects of New Media, with several key initiatives to be announced shortly, including “a significant publishing development… Continue reading IPC To Launch On Internet
QualitiesThe August ABCs for the National Newspapers show the Times again having a good month, with a market share among the quality dailies of over 25%; this is an increase of 0.9% on July and represents a considerable rise on the 18% share the Times had pre-price war. The Times’ monthly circulation figure was up… Continue reading National Press Round-Up – August
National Heritage Secretary, Virginia Bottomley has set out her views on the economic and cultural importance of the British television industry, and on its future opportunities and obligations.Speaking at the Royal Television Society Biennial Convention in Cambridge, Mrs Bottomley said that the television industry was a great British success story but needed to exercise its… Continue reading Bottomley Addresses Royal Television Society
The ITC has recieved four applications for the local delivery franchise for Eastbourne and Hastings. The applications are: Homes By Cash Bid Bell Cablemedia PLC 130,000 2002 £3,873,536 Eurobell (E.Sussex) 147,444 2001 £3,102,607.25 E.Sussex Cable and Telecoms LTD 144,000 2002 £2,558,880 Metro Communications (Sussex) 120,000 2003 £1,413,131.31 The ITC has said that it hopes to… Continue reading Eastbourne Cable Franchise Applicants
