The next MRG meeting will be on October 24th (at JWT, 6.30pm) considering AGB Mediaspan, the fusion of Superpanel data with BARB.Speakers from AGB: Technical Director, Andrew Roberts, and Commercial Director Judith Passingham.
The only application received by the ITC for the cable franchise for Southern East Anglia has come from Southern East Anglia Cable Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Cambridge Cable Ltd, which already serves 55,000 cable customers in Cambridge, Harlow, Ipswich and Colchester.This new area covers 285,000 homes of which 104,778 will be served by… Continue reading One Application For Southern East Anglia Cable
Sky Sports is to screen the European Cup Winners Cup tie between Chelsea and Vienna on Thursday night after Carlton decided not to follow up its coverage of Arsenal and Chelsea from the previous round of the competition. Starts 1900.
Lionel Pickering, who sold his Trader Group of newspapers to TRN in 1989, and is now chairman of Derby County FC, has re-entered the newspaper world with the launch tomorrow of the Nottingham Topper – free circulation of 100,000,at least 42 pages promised.Articles from the Daily Post in Liverpool will be available via the national… Continue reading New Nottingham Free
London is the biggest winner in the new Establishment Data, delayed figures released today, showing an increase of 0.2 percentage points to 19.64%. The South and South East, which increased its share most in the June 1993 survey has slipped back from 9.58% to 9.44%. Granada which saw its share cut from 11.71% to 11.56%… Continue reading New Establishment Survey.
QualitiesThe Times continued to show the effects of its price cut in September with its monthly ABC rising above 600,000 for the first time to 607,143. This is an increase of 1.6% on August and an increase of 37.3% on September last year. The newspaper’s 6-monthly figure for April to September showed an increase of… Continue reading National Press Round Up – September
An early end to the funding safety net for Channel 4 was ruled out by the national heritage secretary, Stephen Dorrell, yesterday. Channel 4 says the formula in place could cost it up to £500m over the next ten years.The existing act requires all Channel 4 revenue above 14% of total non-satellite television to be… Continue reading No end to C4 Funding “Safety Net”
News International yesterday halved the cover price of the Sunday Times to 50p. The newspaper claims that the price cut was a one-off timed to coincide with the serialisation of the Prince of Wales biography and that next weekend it will return to £1.The latest ABCs for September, released on Friday, show the Sunday Times… Continue reading Sunday Times Joins Price War
Business leaders are said to be at their most confident since before the recession, according to a survey of 1,600 directors by Dun & Bradstreet, conducted just after base rates were raised to 5.75%.Construction companies and exporters of manufactured goods are most optimistic about increasing sales in the last quarter of the year. Two-thirds of… Continue reading Business Surveys Reflect Greater Optimism
Hughes Communications, the main backer of the US satellite TV system, DirecTV, is said to have made preliminary approaches to Eutelsat and SES (which runs the Astra system). Both organisations are about to launch new satellites, but both are apparently fully occupied.It has been reported that Hughes is interested in launching satellite services to countries… Continue reading US Satellite Group Eyes European Market
