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Twix has signed up for a second time as the sponsor of the ITV Chart Show,which returns on Saturday (October 22). This was the first ITV programme to be sponsored.

Express Newspapers is embarking on the final stages of research into readership of its weekend sections-“This Week” (the Daily Express Saturday review section) and “Classic” (Sunday Express 3 section).Details of the research should be available by late November.A report in today’s Marketing Week that the Sunday Express is searching for a new agency is jumping… Continue reading Express Researches Weekend Sections

The ITC is inviting applications for the cable licence covering the whole of Northern Ireland, approximately 530,000 homes. Applicants do not have to cover the whole area.The application deadline is January 23rd 1995.

At the annual meeting of News Corporation yesterday, Rupert Murdoch admitted that the Sun’s 20p cover price cost the paper £1m a week at one stage. He said that the price of the paper, now 22p,would gradually rise.“We expect to hold the majority of our circulation gain as we go back up in price slowly.”Of… Continue reading Sun Price To ‘Rise Slowly’, Times To Stay At 20p.

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