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Richard Dunn resigned last night as chief executive of Thames Television. His departure was expected after the appointment of Greg Dyke as chairman of Pearson Television, Thames’ parent company.

Total TV viewing is up by 2.9% for the week ending 5/3/95. This is up 2.9% on the same week last year, but down 1.7% on the previous week’s figures. ITV/C4 viewing is up by 0.8% on last year, but ITV on its own is down 0.4% on last week.The top none-soap opera programme on… Continue reading TV Summary Report

Classic FM has opened a regional sales base in Manchester, and appointed a Northern Sales Manager, Suzanne Hassall. Suzanne Hassall was previously in a senior sales position with Reed Regional Newspapers.Classic FM’s Manchester Sales Office: 0161 932 1102

Yorkshire Tyne Tees Television is likely to join British Sky Broadcasting and Granada in a consortium to bid for the licence for Channel 5, according to Ray Snoddy writing in the FT today.The decision was taken at the weekend, and means that YTTV is not joining the consortium of Pearson, MAI and CLT. This could… Continue reading YTTV And BskyB To Bid For C5

Radio Times is launching a major marketing campaign over Easter, which includes a competition in conjunction with Classic FM giving listeners the opportunity to win a 10,000 cruise from Burma to Rangoon. Other campaigns include a radio campaign, a direct marketing campaign and a 16-page gardening supplement.

QualitiesAmong the quality titles, the Daily Telegraph recorded the highest increase in monthly figures, up 4.2% year on year to 1,057,777, although this was a decrease on its January figure. All the qualities bar the FT recorded decreases on their January ABCs; the FT however, was up 4.3% to 291,204. The Times, although its monthly… Continue reading National Press Round Up – February

Reed Elsevier has today announced final results; pre-tax profits were up 16% on last year for the overall group. The UK section, which includes IPC Magazines, was up 12.4% year on year. Shares are up 26p today to 745p.

Saatchi & Saatchi have announced that Jennifer Laing, Chairman and Chief Executive of Laing Henry, is to be appointed Chairman of Saatchis, and that Saatchis are to acquire Laing Henry Limited.Saatchis will buy out Laing Henry for £1.2 million worth of shares in the parent company. The number of shares will be based on the… Continue reading Saatchis Acquires Laing Henry

CIA has this morning released results; pre-tax profits were up 23.4% to £5.3 million compared to £4.28m last year. CIA’s share price rose by 3 pence this morning to 140p.

MAI has released interim results. Pre-tax profits in the media arm rose from £6m to £29m. This was helped by the acquisition of Anglia TV. However, MAI’s financial arm reported a fall in profits from £28m to £16m this time. The overall result was a 22% rise in pre-tax profit to £59 million.