National Magazines’ House Beautiful, which cut its cover price to £1 for the August issue “to boost a weak summer market”, has announced a more permanent price cut from £1.40 to £1.30. Its most direct competitor, Homes & Ideas costs £1.20 monthly.House Beautiful announced a new ABC of 320,396 recently, 6.7% down on July-Dec but… Continue reading House Beautiful Cuts Price
Director of programming, David Elstein, and deputy MD, David Chance, are being tipped as the leading contenders to fill the slot vacated at Sky News by Kelvin Mackenzie last week. An outsider for the role is Bruce Gyngell, former TV-am boss, and now working for Kerry Packer’s Channel 9.
The Newcastle Chronicle & Journal is launching The Journal Business Magazine on September 5th (circ 30,000, distributed with the City edition of the paper). York & County Press has launched Admart, a shopper-style free newspaper (circ 62,000 to homes and businesses in York and Wetherby.
National Heritage Sectretary Stephen Dorrell announced yesterday that Sir George Russell has been reappointed as chairman of the ITC for a further two years from 1 January 1995.
UPN’S daily title, The Sheffield Star will relaunch as a tabloid on September 14th. The paper has seen sales drop by about 30,000 in the last five years to 105,446 (July-December 1993). A change in “editorial culture” will see news and features being combined. UPN is said to be planning other relaunches, but not as… Continue reading Sheffield Star To Go Tabloid
Saatchi & Saatchi has today released pre-tax profits of £15.3m for the 6 months to June 30, an increase of 68% on last year’s profit of £9.1m. Operating profit rose from £18.9m to £21.7m.
Latest ITC statistics show a 22% increase between July 1994 and April 1994 for the total number of telephone lines installed by cable operators. The ITC can provide a full list of cable franchises now offering a telephone service. (071 306 7743). Franchises Residential Business Total Lines Providing Lines Lines Installed Telephony Jul-93 32 167,457… Continue reading Cable Telephone Figures Show Steady Increase
The future of the Media Partnership, the European advertising space buyer set up by WPP and Omnicom, looks uncertain according to a report in last weekend’s Independent on Sunday. The report suggests that Omnicom may pull out of the Partnership following a review of the venture.WPP is due to release its results on Wednesday with… Continue reading Omnicom May Pull Out Of Media Partnership
