The Radio Times is to up its cover price by 5p to 65p, making it the most expensive of the TV listings magazines. The increase, the first for a year, will take effect from the July 3 issue.The Radio Times is the market leader in terms of circulation; its July- December’92 ABC came in at… Continue reading TV Listings Magazines – Update
In May MTV, followed shortly by BSkyB, released its new Out of Home (OOH) research into viewing of satellite channels outside of the home – figures not currently accounted for by BARB viewing data. The results of the survey showed that OOH viewing adds 15% to Astra viewing amongst 16-34 year olds. *MTV OOH£ for… Continue reading Industry News
Chief executive of HTV Group, Charles Romaine, has resigned from the television company, after only two years in the position. He will be replaced by Chris Rowlands, formerly finance director with HTV. The recently accelerated risk of takeover by a larger ITV company is said to have influenced Romaine’s decision.
Yorkshire based publisher, Garnett Dickinson, is launching a rugby magazine on September 1, to coincide with the start of the new season.Aptly named, Rugby Monthly is geared specifically towards rugby union, targeting players and club enthusiasts in particular. With an initial print- run of 60,000 and cover price of £2 the title is emerging into… Continue reading Garnett Dickinson Launches Rugby Mag
The Radio Times is to up its cover price by 5p to 65p, making it the most expensive of the TV listings magazines. The increase, the first for a year, will take effect from the July 3 issue.The Radio Times is the market leader in terms of circulation; its July- December’92 ABC came in at… Continue reading TV Listings Magazines – Update
Joint sales director at Media and Airtime Sales, Paul Curtis, will move across to Laser Sales as sales manager when the new LWT/Tyne Tees operation comes into being at the start of next year.Ron Miller is believed to be the most likely candidate for the position of managing director, with Derek Hamment taking over as… Continue reading Laser Sales Appointments Confirmed
Future Publishing is approaching its latest planned launch from a different angle, giving it an elusive quality before even reaching the newsstands.The Edge will be introduced with an exceptionally low print run of 40,000 to create a niche market for the title, making it initially available to hard core computer readers and hence slowly building… Continue reading Different Angle For Future Mag
ITV plans to move News at Ten to an earlier slot (Newsline – 22/6) have met with strong resistance at Westminster where more than 50 MPs signed a motion condemning the move.Chief executives of the sixteen ITV companies are expected to ratify the change on July 5th. The ITV broadcast board has already agreed to… Continue reading Save The News At Ten Campaign
Speaking to MediaTel this morning about recently leaked RAJAR data claiming that Virgin 1215 achieved a poor reach in May of 7%, Ellie Smith strongly denied that the station was worried about the final result to be released in August, claiming that internal figures have been very encouraging so far.If the figures are accurate then… Continue reading Virgin Denies Rajar Figures
Cinema admissions are continuing to increase with the average weekly admissions figure for May up by 5.7% year-on-year to 1.74m.Major films released in May included Indecent Proposal, Groundhog Day and Cop And A Half. This compares to Basic Instict, Howards End and Waynes World which were released in May 1992.The May figure is down on… Continue reading Cinema Admissions – May
