Alan Yentob yesterday announced his first autumn schedule as Controller of BBC1. The £175m package is dominated by drama and comedy, with more than 80 hours of new drama and 22 new comedy and variety shows.The political highlight will be the four-part series, Thatcher: the Downing Street Years, with frank interviews with the former Prime… Continue reading BBC1 Autumn Schedule
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Circulation for the Readers Digest has risen back above the 1.6m mark with the latest ABC for January to June’93. The magazine achieved a similar circulation in 1990 but sales then dropped off slightly. Jan-Jun’92 Jan-Jun’93 %Ch Total 1,542,885 1,651,820 7.1 UK & Eire 1,529,077 1,639,961 7.3 O/S 13,808 11,859 -14.1
BARB has launched a new service which fuses the MORI Financial Survey with the BARB Audience Measurement Panel.The MORI financial survey provides in-depth information on a range of financial services including current account holders, postal savings and the value of savings, stocks and shares, as well as mortgages, credit cards and personal pensions.It is now… Continue reading MFS/BARB Data Fusion
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Quarter 2 data includes the usual batch of gains and losses. Few stations are fortunate enough to see an increase in both reach and hours.Notable gains in weekly reach include City FM (21% to 25%), LBC Newstalk (8% to 11%), Invicta FM (24% to 29%), although average hours are well down, Tay,Dundee (38% to 43%),… Continue reading RAJAR Analysis – Stations
IPC today announced the launch of a new service for loose insert advertisers. Called Innovator, the new department will provide greater ease and coordination for insert advertisers.The service launches with the three weekly TV listings titles, TVTimes, TV and Satellite Week, and What’s On TV. The women’s weeklies titles will follow in the autumn, and… Continue reading IPC Launches New Insert Service
Classic FM has maintained its audience of 4.5 million listeners weekly, but is able to boast increases in 15-34 and ABC1 listening.15-34s Total up 25.2% to 1.23 million Share up from 21.9% to 27.3% Weekly hours up by 12.7% to 3.7mABC1s Now 60.7% of all listeners Account for 61.8% of total hoursProgramme analysis sees a… Continue reading CLASSIC INCREASES IN KEY AUDIENCES.
The Cinema Advertising Association says that cinema audiences for the first six months of 1993 are up 10% on the same period last year. January to June admissions were 50.3m and the top films were The Bodyguard, Home Alone 2, Dracula, Indecent Proposal, and A Few Good Men.With Jurassic Park breaking all box office records… Continue reading Cinema Audiences Soar
RAJAR data for the second quarter of 1993 sees commercial radio increase its share of listening from 37.4% to 38.9%. Following further analysis, the RAB is claiming a share of over 40% once the first figures for Virgin 1215 are taken into account. Virgin’s figures are included in “Other Listening” (3.9% share) and are also… Continue reading Commercial Radio Increases Share
