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More O’Ferrall Also Announced Results yesterday, with pre-tax profits up 35% to £2.81m. UK and Irish revenues rose 15%. The group said they had increased prices for poster space.

The first phase of ISOP (the Newspaper Society’s ongoing 1993 multimedia research initiative) is published today in an 18 page report entitled The Multimedia Revolution. Conducted by Meta£Generics, the report describes a vision of the future in which new technologies – On-Line or CD-ROM/CD-i – will radically change regional publishing markets in terms of product… Continue reading Regionals Embrace Multimedia Revolution

The combined ITV/C4 revenue for August has been estimated at £127m, representing a year on year increase of 9.6%, and continues the upward trend which has been apparent since the beginning of the year.The individual ITV and C4 revenue figures of £100.56m and £26.44m both highlight year on year improvements with C4 up an incredible… Continue reading TV Shares And Revenues – August 1994

Janet Street Porter announced yesterday that she is leaving the BBC to become managing director of the Mirror Group’s new cable television channel, Live TV. Street-Porter, currently head of independent production for BBC TV’s entertainment group, said, “I wanted to start a channel from scratch editorially. What’s always driven me is writing new types of… Continue reading Janet Street Porter To Head Cable TV Channel

The Daily Telegraph’s new TV push will highlight the fact that it outsells The Times and The Guardian put together. The camapign will run throughout the South and Midlands from this week until the end of October.

Following its purchase of a 14.9% stake in STV yesterday, MGN has said it is interested in co-operation with STV, thus strengthening its media grip in Scotland – not acquisition. Current TV ownership rules prevent MGN owning more than 20% of STV, but the newspaper group was claiming last night that it was not looking… Continue reading MGN Interested in Co-Operation With STV, Not Acquisition

Financial Times Magazines is planning a January launch of a monthly free magazine aimed at the international expatriate in Britain. Called the International in Britain, it will focus on all the practical issues an international expatriate faces in Britain, together with leisure and cultural events. However, its main thrust will be to deliver expert financial… Continue reading FT Magazines Plan Financial Monthly Title

Peter Risdale, chief executive of home-shopping channel QVC has resigned. The channel has run up losses of £9m in the UK, but chairman Barry Diller insists it will stay on air. Mark Suckle takes over as chief executive.

The only applicant, Cable Communications Fylde and Wyre, has been awarded the cable licence for Blackpool and Fylde.The winning company is a wholly owned subsidiary of SBC Cablecomms (UK), which also owns the companies holding the cable franchises for South Lancashire, Central Lancashire, Wigan, St Helens & Knowsley, and Liverpool. The new area includes 101,000… Continue reading ITC Awards Blackpool Cable Licence

Channel 4 is claiming that its Big Breakfast show had a 300,000 peak time lead over GMTV on Monday of this week. GMTV has led consistently through the summer, but according to unofficial figures the C4 show had 1.8 million viewers at 8.00am on Monday, compared to 1.5 million for GMTV. This would be a… Continue reading Channel 4 Claims Big Breakfast Leads GMTV