The combined ITV/C4 revenue figure for December, based on agency estimates, came in at £156.84m, up 9.3% on December 1993. The ITV figure was £123.84m, up 6.6% year on year; C4’s figure was £33m, up 20.7% year on year. The ITV:C4 split was 79:21, an improvement for C4 from 80:20.Among contractors, the best performance was… Continue reading Television Round-Up – December TV Revenue
VH-1, MTV’s sister music channel which launched in September last year is to launch on cable in London. VH-1 will launch on Videotron, London’s largest cable network on 1st February. On 1st March it will launch on the Encom cable network. This means that VH-1 will be available to over 80% of the capital’s cable… Continue reading VH-1 To Launch On Cable
BBC Radio maintained its share of listening in Quarter 4 1994 at 48.6%, with a weekly reach of 59%. This was 65% in Q4 1993.Radio 1 lost over 3 million listeners in 1994, with its total audience now 11,009,000 compared to 14,292,000 in Q3 1993. This is a weekly reach of 23% compared to 31%… Continue reading Radio 1 Loses 3m Listeners In 1994
The first trickle of July to December ABCs are now starting to come in. The Radio Times decreased 1.5% year on year, with a circulation of 1,463,942. This figure is up on the previous period however, which was 1,441,280.Conde Nast’s figures all recorded increases apart from Vanity Fair, which was down 1% to 78,121 and… Continue reading Radio Times/Conde Nast ABCs
Rupert Murdoch, speaking at the World Economic Forum has said that the rising cost of paper could spark an increase in the price of UK newspapers, marking an end to the long-running price war. He told the Forum that in the last three months the price of paper had gone up by 30-40%.
The latest Rajar results, for Q4 1994, show that commercial radio has increased its listeners by 316,000 over the last quarter, up 1.5m over the last year.Virgin and Atlantic have continued to draw in more listeners; Atlantic’s audience has increased from 3,882,000 last year Q4 (8%) to 4,571,000 this quarter (10%). Virgin’s audience has increased… Continue reading Commercial Radio Achieves 1.5m More Listeners
Adscene Group, the Kent based regional newspaper group has announced results today for the six months to November 26. Pre-tax profits are up 50.4% from £1.41m last year to £2.12m. Adscene said that advertising revenue is looking healthy, and during the period concerned it spent £5.6m on expansion.
The latest advertising revenue data for 1994 released by the Radio Advertising Bureau shows the annual revenue figure at £219.4m, up 23% on 1993’s revenue. 1993 attracted £37m more in revenue than 1992, and 1994 attracted a further £41m.The official Advertising Association figure for UK advertising revenue will not be released for some months yet,… Continue reading Radio Revenue Up £41m For 1994
British Transport Advertising has signed a sponsorship deal with the Royal College of Art, worth £375,000. BTA has donated poster sites worth £375,000. The six-month sponsorship begins with posters publicising ‘Make Believe’, a contemporary art exhibition.BTA is providing poster sites in BR stations nationwide, including Victoria, Waterloo and Euston. BTA’s Roger Fernley said, “The sponsorship… Continue reading BTA In Arts Sponsorship Deal
The ITC has released the latest cable telephony figures; another 147,000 telephone lines were installed by the UK cable industry over the last quarter. The number of exchange lines grew from 314,000 to 717,000 during 1994. There are now 63 cable franchises which also provide telephony, compared to 43 in January 1994.
