National Magazines has recruited Maggie Goodman, former editor of Hello! to establish a new magazine development division. Reed Regional Sales has restructured: Suzanne Hassal is account manager to south, Steve Smith to the north, and Gavin Wade to the Midlands.
DMC, publisher of the dance music title Mix Mag, is to launch 2 new magazines targeting comedy and gold music fans. Deadpan, which launches on March 24, will cover all types of comedy with interviews, cartoons, features and listings. Features will include artists such as Vic Reeves, French and Saunders and Rik Mayall, together with… Continue reading DMC To Launch Comedy And Music Mags
The ITV Network Centre has made 17 people redundant, including business development director Kate Hampton and research director Gareth Morgan. The job losses have been attributed to the individual ITV companies taking over marketing, in contrast to the centralised programming department.
The ITC has written to the TV companies involved in take overs;Carlton, Central, Granada and LWT, and will be writing to Anglia and Meridian, spelling out conditions for advertising sales in the future.The ITC has confirmed that companies can continue current sales arrangements after merging, subject to existing conditions. This would mean that if Granada… Continue reading ITC Issues Statement On TV Sales
Yorkshire Tyne Tee’s national sponsor- ship department is to be disbanded; Laser will sell sponsorship, as they already do for YTTT’s advertising airtime.LATEST SPONSORSHIPSpears Games is to sponsor the World Wrestling Foundation programming on Sky Sports and Sky One for the next year. Spears’ game, Atmosfear will feature in regular programming and special events in… Continue reading Laser To Sell YTTT Sponsorship
VOILAVoila, an upmarket women’s monthly magazine is to be launched on February 10. A cross between Hello and Tatler, the title is backed by John Elliot, previous editor of Tatler. The monthly will have a cover price of £1.50 and an initial print run of 30,000. Aimed at the AB market, Voila will be full… Continue reading Two Magazine Launches
The Retail Price Index for December has been announced this morning. Inflation has increased from 1.4% last month to 1.9% this month.The actual figure, taking 1985 as the base rate is 149.99. This represents an increase of 0.2% on November 1993.
The privatisation of London Transport Advertising has attracted interest this week as the formal prospectus is due to be released.Bidders are thought to include the three largest UK poster contractors, Mills & Allen, Maiden, and More O’Ferrall, as well as the French company Dauphin. The LTA management are also expected to put in a bid,… Continue reading LTA Attracts Bidders
According to the latest Concord Outdoor Rates Forecast outdoor advertising has made a healthy start to the year, with poster panel prices in the first quarter up by an unprecedented 18% YoY.The overall rates growth forecast for 1994 on 1993 is 9%. Supersites are showing the greatest increases, then 48-sheets, with 6-sheets showing smaller rises.… Continue reading Concord Outdoor Rates Forecast
QUALITIESNewspaper Publishing had another poor month in December with its financial future appearing increasingly unstable and the circulations of both the Independent and Independent on Sunday plummeting. The Independent’s December ABC hovered just above the 300,000 mark at 301,987. Its 6-monthly figure for July to December fell by 11.9% year-on- year to 324,184. The Independent… Continue reading National Press Round-Up December
